Sucks I know. I just gave up in the end and moved to Photos. The only major thing missing is the "Edit in Photoshop" feature, which I believe might be possible via a plugin, though I'm not certain. The shared photo library between the mac, the cloud (for backup) and my ipod touch, is pretty much killer.
OSX comes with Photos, which integrates with their iCloud photo library offering, which integrates with your iDevice. A shared photo library across all your devices, optionally only downloading low resolution photos if you're short of space. It offers RAW support, non-destructive editing, all that face-recognition nonsense, etc etc.
There is no competing product for this anywhere. Google have a photo library, but there's no desktop app that works anything like Photos does on a Mac. That alone is worth the price of admission, which isn't even that much when you compare similarly-well-built laptops.
Right, so it's compatible until it isn't. The TRRS connector has many different implementations. Sometimes there's video in there. Sometimes the ground is in different places. Sometimes the microphone is in a different spot. There any many different ways of making a remote work. I've never seen a three button remote work with Android, but I've no reason to not believe you. However, the one I have doesn't work with the Android devices that I have.
The thing is that the 3.5mm headphone connector is basically a bit crap. Wireless audio is what people use at home for connecting to their stereo (I certainly do, and it's far, far more convenient), and while I don't personally use wireless headphones myself (too cheap to buy them / I'd lose them / forget to charge them / they're all ugy / etc), I see plenty of people that do.
(btw the headphone jack is also a *universally compatible data port*)
This isn't true. It's far from universally compatible, with different implementations of squeezing things like remote control functionality into it, for instance.
The difference between C++, and the other languages that you mention, is that those languages are written in C++. There is a reason for this. If you need performance, without sacrificing expressiveness, there is no substitute.
it substitutes the current type into any templated functions which match the name in question. If that substitution yields a compiler error, the compiler ignores it and removes that option from the list of overloads.
I don't know who you are, but whatever you're being paid, it's not enough. I learnt something new today.
If you actually write code that does lots of math on vectors and matrices and so-forth, you might change your opinion. Added to which, the oft-trotted-out argument that '+' might be doing something other than adding due to overloading is moot, since the same can be said of a function called 'Add'.
Becoming very irritated with these "small" Linux distros that take a minute or more to boot. I want my 'media centre' to turn on more or less immediately, like the radio and the TV used to. And I want it to be properly off, as not even powered, when it's off. Like the radio and the TV used to also.
This is well within the capabilities of the hardware, it's more than powerful enough to bring up a fully-functional media centre in milliseconds, but only if you stop using Linux, and start using something designed for that use-case.
The likelyhood of anyone outside of an active Law enforcement investigation is pretty slim
Perhaps, perhaps not. What about those card-skimmer devices that people attach to ATMs? They require physical access, and are exploiting a security flaw in a sense, and - for a while at least - were quite widespread. It's also a big deal if a laptop is used to store actually sensitive data, and you thought you were safe because of disk encryption, or whatever, but it turned out that all the bad guys need to do is wait for you to leave your laptop unattended for five minutes.
No, this type of attack is very serious. Someone that leaves their laptop unattended for a short period of time can find their password stolen, without them realising anything other than that their laptop was mysteriously rebooted while they were on the loo.
We can't blame the minorities who were scamming the banks by taking out sub-prime loans.
That's right. Because it is beholden upon a bank to not undertake a bad loan to a customer. So, when they do, and when they do it knowingly on an enormous scale, we don't blame the "minorities" that take out the bad loans (whatever it is that actually means in this context. I have no idea. Black people? Gays? Poor people?), we blame the banks for getting themselves into an unstable financial position, and taking all their customers down with them.
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but no one should be stupid enough to do so from Aperture.
I guess I'm pretty dumb then.
Sucks I know. I just gave up in the end and moved to Photos. The only major thing missing is the "Edit in Photoshop" feature, which I believe might be possible via a plugin, though I'm not certain. The shared photo library between the mac, the cloud (for backup) and my ipod touch, is pretty much killer.
Yeah - it's great - all you have to do is write all the software you need.
OSX comes with Photos, which integrates with their iCloud photo library offering, which integrates with your iDevice. A shared photo library across all your devices, optionally only downloading low resolution photos if you're short of space. It offers RAW support, non-destructive editing, all that face-recognition nonsense, etc etc.
There is no competing product for this anywhere. Google have a photo library, but there's no desktop app that works anything like Photos does on a Mac. That alone is worth the price of admission, which isn't even that much when you compare similarly-well-built laptops.
Right, so it's compatible until it isn't. The TRRS connector has many different implementations. Sometimes there's video in there. Sometimes the ground is in different places. Sometimes the microphone is in a different spot. There any many different ways of making a remote work. I've never seen a three button remote work with Android, but I've no reason to not believe you. However, the one I have doesn't work with the Android devices that I have.
The thing is that the 3.5mm headphone connector is basically a bit crap. Wireless audio is what people use at home for connecting to their stereo (I certainly do, and it's far, far more convenient), and while I don't personally use wireless headphones myself (too cheap to buy them / I'd lose them / forget to charge them / they're all ugy / etc), I see plenty of people that do.
Let's check back in five years and see how those consumer-level automatic kitchens are going.
(btw the headphone jack is also a *universally compatible data port*)
This isn't true. It's far from universally compatible, with different implementations of squeezing things like remote control functionality into it, for instance.
Good idea. Let's rewrite Python, Java, Javascript, clang in something else. I think perl is still written in C, and gcc is too, so those would be OK.
C++ strcpy() implementation!
strcpy is C. C++ uses std::string, which solves your strcpy problems, whatever they might be.
The difference between C++, and the other languages that you mention, is that those languages are written in C++. There is a reason for this. If you need performance, without sacrificing expressiveness, there is no substitute.
I want to lean on the film Arrival ...<snip>.
Argh. Spoiler....
This is such an intelligent comment that it ought to win some sort of prize.
it substitutes the current type into any templated functions which match the name in question. If that substitution yields a compiler error, the compiler ignores it and removes that option from the list of overloads.
I don't know who you are, but whatever you're being paid, it's not enough. I learnt something new today.
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That's right. All that's left is the hardest bit.
This is because no-one uses those things unless no-one else is around, because it's socially weird.
I don't even use voice control in social interactions, I just poke people until they understand.
If you actually write code that does lots of math on vectors and matrices and so-forth, you might change your opinion. Added to which, the oft-trotted-out argument that '+' might be doing something other than adding due to overloading is moot, since the same can be said of a function called 'Add'.
does it take to boot?
Becoming very irritated with these "small" Linux distros that take a minute or more to boot. I want my 'media centre' to turn on more or less immediately, like the radio and the TV used to. And I want it to be properly off, as not even powered, when it's off. Like the radio and the TV used to also.
This is well within the capabilities of the hardware, it's more than powerful enough to bring up a fully-functional media centre in milliseconds, but only if you stop using Linux, and start using something designed for that use-case.
The point is to be able to find your way around.
This doesn't affect HTML5 video or animated GIFs. Which browsers offer an easy way to disable both of those?
None. That's why they were invented.
The US government has a duty to allow for free speech. Private and public businesses don't.
The line between these two entities has become increasingly blurred over the decades since it was drawn.
Why don't we apply that principal to whatever it is you do for a living, too?
They probably take supplements already, which would mean that you'd find a lower incidence.
No, you look after them for the rest of their lives, just like any responsible society does for those not able to look after themselves.
The likelyhood of anyone outside of an active Law enforcement investigation is pretty slim
Perhaps, perhaps not. What about those card-skimmer devices that people attach to ATMs? They require physical access, and are exploiting a security flaw in a sense, and - for a while at least - were quite widespread. It's also a big deal if a laptop is used to store actually sensitive data, and you thought you were safe because of disk encryption, or whatever, but it turned out that all the bad guys need to do is wait for you to leave your laptop unattended for five minutes.
No, this type of attack is very serious. Someone that leaves their laptop unattended for a short period of time can find their password stolen, without them realising anything other than that their laptop was mysteriously rebooted while they were on the loo.
We can't blame the minorities who were scamming the banks by taking out sub-prime loans.
That's right. Because it is beholden upon a bank to not undertake a bad loan to a customer. So, when they do, and when they do it knowingly on an enormous scale, we don't blame the "minorities" that take out the bad loans (whatever it is that actually means in this context. I have no idea. Black people? Gays? Poor people?), we blame the banks for getting themselves into an unstable financial position, and taking all their customers down with them.