We don't get those. I seem to remember getting a lot of pillar-boxed American content long after everything went wide screen here in be UK, so not really surprising to hear there are still some companies in the US so far behind the times. BTW, rather than switching to 4K I wish the industry would hurry up and stop using interlacing, and for American content, NTSC framerates.
Omigod it's not like we have to convince Germany to keep selling their cars to us, but that Germany has to convince 26 other states that the deal that's good for Germany is good for them too. Meanwhile Germany has managed amazing trade with China despite no EU-China trade agreement and we're wondering why the UK can't do the same, except perhaps that it produces shit that nobody wants to buy, no matter how much Sterling depreciates.
Somebody's been working very hard at making it a shittier programme than it was before Microsoft bought it. Who do you think created all those bugs in it?
Actually corporate and payroll taxes in the UK are lower than the US, and probably the salaries are too. If the new government doesn't change plans then corp tax in the UK is heading for 15%, which is a lot less than the US' 35% + local rate
It's not just gloves, but situations where you have the phone behind a clear cover perhaps when you're exercising. I know the new phone is supposed to be waterproof, but that doesn't necessary negate having the phone in some sort of container and wanting to use it without removing it.
I don't really see much value to most of the updates pushed at me. Why both we continuous deployment and constantly updating me every two weeks? Might as well use my web browser and then I don't have to think about it, my phone doesn't get cluttered with apps and perhaps this is more secure.
Battery is one of the major reasons I dropped Firefox. That and memory consumption. If they had a process per tab then I could manage these better, which I can with all the other major browsers.
Working with people in different offices, we use head phones every day. I've watched Windows users over the years constantly struggling with headphones and Skype and been very happy to be MBP based and just have it work. When you spend a lot of time on Skype and the like you really come to appreciate the value of good and working A/V equipment. The builtin mic is all part of the package with Apple headsets.
I don't really care if they get rid of the headphone socket, so long as they have a solution. Given that I get my headphones from my iPhone, I wouldn't be happy spending a tonne just getting a second headset for laptop. They also better not make me give up one of my other ports - I often have both USB-3 and both Thunderbolt ports in use, and I'm still left looking for a way to plug more things in sometimes. Ultimately it's a tradeoff but I think Apple has done reasonably well in balancing this up, at least in the MBP line. MacBooks with the single USB-C port that does both power and connectivity has no appeal.
Here in the UK we expect to be harrassed for our drinks order. Food can be ordered once we've relaxed and imbibed a bit. It's all about priorities. Australia's difficult because customer service is non-existant and the beers are tiny, shit and expensive.
How many people have a 10-bit display? For most people, their renderer will convert it back to 8-bit and lose more quality in the process. By all means use 10-bit and the BT.2020 colourspace if your source material uses this, but otherwise don't waste your time.
Err no, that's not quite how it would work. You in the US would not collect the tax, but you would tell the EU to collect it. In this case the EU is claiming that Ireland broke the rules about state aid, and that Ireland should now reclaim that money.
A recent example, commuting to a new office from SW London to NE: I know I don't want to cycle on the unpaved Thames towpath with my skinny 115 psi tyres, especially when there is a road with a bike lane nearby. And I know that I don't want to get to The Embankment from The Mall via Horse Guards but should just go around the roundabout at the bottom of Trafalgar Sq and shoot down Northumberland Ave. These are utterly moronic suggestions from Google, but this doesn't mean I have enough local knowledge to plan the journey without Google. Black cab drivers are on another planet, which I can only dream about.
Google is pretty useless at times, especially here in London as a cyclist. I pretty much have to use my local knowledge, street view and waypoints to cajole it in to decent routes and correct locations.
They say the messages are encrypted, but nothing about metadata (who you messagesd, when, size of message, etc). This is the kind of thing GCHQ and NSA got in trouble for.
SBC, AAC and MP3 are lossy codecs. I never saw a product that accept AAC or MP3
Creative Roar 2 speakers support AAC over Bluetooth. My MacBook Pro uses AptX though with this speaker, and it does sound better connected via USB than wirelessly. I also had to hack around with some BT tools to ensure the Mac doesn't use SBC, which sounds horrible. You'd hope that iTunes would pass-through any AAC streams it's playing without re-transcoding, but 1) I don't know if it or any other player can do this, and 2) there're probably some special encoding settings required such as limiting the bitrate or using AAC-LC instead of AAC-HEv2.
I'd say BT isn't really a good choice for music playback given its quality, difficulty correctly configuring and how flaky it is (say hello to the microwave and other 2.4GHz interference!)
You're worried about her workflow but you're going to completely change her environment and make her learn a new way of working? Seriously I'd be more worried about Adobe than Microsoft breaking something.
BTW, I guess your wife's professional setup doesn't rely on 10-bit graphics? I can see banding in blue sky gradients in Lightroom on my MBP.
Huh? What are you taking about? Connect a keyboard with these if you want them. There have always been key chords for these and I particularly like that many keyboard shortcuts are the same as on Linux, like the Ctrl+E/-A combos. Pointy-clicky and advanced people are satisfied, but Windows users have to learn a new way (and so what?)
I've already started clicking on every ad to hide it, and then choose offense / sexually explicity. Time to pollute their data set, and if they actually action on this feedback then that system will get broken if enough people also do the same.
Oh and I've started using FB on my phone because of the advertising. If they put up a wall then like other sites I've encountered doing the same then I will say "no thanks" and move on. There's just not enough value in FB at the end of the day.
Yes exactly, and that's why there are suprisingly few accidents. The other extreme for me is Russia, where I see accidents every day on the way from hotel to office.
I had some meetings in California a few years ago, and let one of my Shanghai colleagues drive my rental car. He was slowing down on the ramp on to the Interstate because he didn't feel safe with all the traffic flying by making no space. This scared the shit out of me because expect you to do quite the opposite: floor and go as fast as possible and get up to highway speed so you can just merge in to a tiny gap between vehicles. I thought we were going to be rear ended by other people on the ramp accelerating whilst looking over their shoulders for a gap, or by people already on the Interstate not expecting somebody merging so slowly. I have to say I prefer the way the Chinese drive (in China at least) as it generally feels safer than the way Americans go about it.
I was chuckling at these bullshit marketing numbers too. Perhaps Seagate are unwittingly admitting that they use technology from ca. year 2000? My phone's shitty pictures are 3-5MB normally, and my DSLR's RAWs are another order of magnitude larger. I wonder what crap they're using that creates 150KB photos? As for the movies, this sounds like a DVD rip using MPEG-2 rather than a modern AVC or HEVC encoder, which can give good movie quality at 1.5GB.
That's incredibly judgemental and misguided. Your views are based on your own experiences and circumstances. I have a love-hate relationship with FB, disliking it for many of reasons you mention, plus more. But it is a good way to stay in touch with people and even augment other forms of communication. My wife is from the other side of the world and we both have friends and family in many places we already communicate with via phone, Skype, email, normal mail and more, and places like FB still add value to relationships. If it doesn't work for you, fine, but there's no need to be so rude and call somebody lazy like that.
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Great idea: leave a bunch of local root exploits available that can be leveraged once compromised by a zero day remote exploit.
We don't get those. I seem to remember getting a lot of pillar-boxed American content long after everything went wide screen here in be UK, so not really surprising to hear there are still some companies in the US so far behind the times. BTW, rather than switching to 4K I wish the industry would hurry up and stop using interlacing, and for American content, NTSC framerates.
Ahh bless. The Brexiters in their Cloud Cuckoo Land. They think we've already Brexited and can't imagine another decade of this.
Omigod it's not like we have to convince Germany to keep selling their cars to us, but that Germany has to convince 26 other states that the deal that's good for Germany is good for them too. Meanwhile Germany has managed amazing trade with China despite no EU-China trade agreement and we're wondering why the UK can't do the same, except perhaps that it produces shit that nobody wants to buy, no matter how much Sterling depreciates.
Really? I thought they were all 1080i these days.
Somebody's been working very hard at making it a shittier programme than it was before Microsoft bought it. Who do you think created all those bugs in it?
Actually corporate and payroll taxes in the UK are lower than the US, and probably the salaries are too. If the new government doesn't change plans then corp tax in the UK is heading for 15%, which is a lot less than the US' 35% + local rate
It's not just gloves, but situations where you have the phone behind a clear cover perhaps when you're exercising. I know the new phone is supposed to be waterproof, but that doesn't necessary negate having the phone in some sort of container and wanting to use it without removing it.
I don't really see much value to most of the updates pushed at me. Why both we continuous deployment and constantly updating me every two weeks? Might as well use my web browser and then I don't have to think about it, my phone doesn't get cluttered with apps and perhaps this is more secure.
Battery is one of the major reasons I dropped Firefox. That and memory consumption. If they had a process per tab then I could manage these better, which I can with all the other major browsers.
Working with people in different offices, we use head phones every day. I've watched Windows users over the years constantly struggling with headphones and Skype and been very happy to be MBP based and just have it work. When you spend a lot of time on Skype and the like you really come to appreciate the value of good and working A/V equipment. The builtin mic is all part of the package with Apple headsets.
I don't really care if they get rid of the headphone socket, so long as they have a solution. Given that I get my headphones from my iPhone, I wouldn't be happy spending a tonne just getting a second headset for laptop. They also better not make me give up one of my other ports - I often have both USB-3 and both Thunderbolt ports in use, and I'm still left looking for a way to plug more things in sometimes. Ultimately it's a tradeoff but I think Apple has done reasonably well in balancing this up, at least in the MBP line. MacBooks with the single USB-C port that does both power and connectivity has no appeal.
Here in the UK we expect to be harrassed for our drinks order. Food can be ordered once we've relaxed and imbibed a bit. It's all about priorities. Australia's difficult because customer service is non-existant and the beers are tiny, shit and expensive.
How many people have a 10-bit display? For most people, their renderer will convert it back to 8-bit and lose more quality in the process. By all means use 10-bit and the BT.2020 colourspace if your source material uses this, but otherwise don't waste your time.
Err no, that's not quite how it would work. You in the US would not collect the tax, but you would tell the EU to collect it. In this case the EU is claiming that Ireland broke the rules about state aid, and that Ireland should now reclaim that money.
A recent example, commuting to a new office from SW London to NE: I know I don't want to cycle on the unpaved Thames towpath with my skinny 115 psi tyres, especially when there is a road with a bike lane nearby. And I know that I don't want to get to The Embankment from The Mall via Horse Guards but should just go around the roundabout at the bottom of Trafalgar Sq and shoot down Northumberland Ave. These are utterly moronic suggestions from Google, but this doesn't mean I have enough local knowledge to plan the journey without Google. Black cab drivers are on another planet, which I can only dream about.
Google is pretty useless at times, especially here in London as a cyclist. I pretty much have to use my local knowledge, street view and waypoints to cajole it in to decent routes and correct locations.
They say the messages are encrypted, but nothing about metadata (who you messagesd, when, size of message, etc). This is the kind of thing GCHQ and NSA got in trouble for.
Creative Roar 2 speakers support AAC over Bluetooth. My MacBook Pro uses AptX though with this speaker, and it does sound better connected via USB than wirelessly. I also had to hack around with some BT tools to ensure the Mac doesn't use SBC, which sounds horrible. You'd hope that iTunes would pass-through any AAC streams it's playing without re-transcoding, but 1) I don't know if it or any other player can do this, and 2) there're probably some special encoding settings required such as limiting the bitrate or using AAC-LC instead of AAC-HEv2.
I'd say BT isn't really a good choice for music playback given its quality, difficulty correctly configuring and how flaky it is (say hello to the microwave and other 2.4GHz interference!)
Whats'a the upload speed like? That's why I ditched DSL. Now I've got 20mbs upstream, which is way better than the cable providers around here.
You're worried about her workflow but you're going to completely change her environment and make her learn a new way of working? Seriously I'd be more worried about Adobe than Microsoft breaking something.
BTW, I guess your wife's professional setup doesn't rely on 10-bit graphics? I can see banding in blue sky gradients in Lightroom on my MBP.
Huh? What are you taking about? Connect a keyboard with these if you want them. There have always been key chords for these and I particularly like that many keyboard shortcuts are the same as on Linux, like the Ctrl+E/-A combos. Pointy-clicky and advanced people are satisfied, but Windows users have to learn a new way (and so what?)
I've already started clicking on every ad to hide it, and then choose offense / sexually explicity. Time to pollute their data set, and if they actually action on this feedback then that system will get broken if enough people also do the same.
Oh and I've started using FB on my phone because of the advertising. If they put up a wall then like other sites I've encountered doing the same then I will say "no thanks" and move on. There's just not enough value in FB at the end of the day.
Yes exactly, and that's why there are suprisingly few accidents. The other extreme for me is Russia, where I see accidents every day on the way from hotel to office.
I had some meetings in California a few years ago, and let one of my Shanghai colleagues drive my rental car. He was slowing down on the ramp on to the Interstate because he didn't feel safe with all the traffic flying by making no space. This scared the shit out of me because expect you to do quite the opposite: floor and go as fast as possible and get up to highway speed so you can just merge in to a tiny gap between vehicles. I thought we were going to be rear ended by other people on the ramp accelerating whilst looking over their shoulders for a gap, or by people already on the Interstate not expecting somebody merging so slowly. I have to say I prefer the way the Chinese drive (in China at least) as it generally feels safer than the way Americans go about it.
I was chuckling at these bullshit marketing numbers too. Perhaps Seagate are unwittingly admitting that they use technology from ca. year 2000? My phone's shitty pictures are 3-5MB normally, and my DSLR's RAWs are another order of magnitude larger. I wonder what crap they're using that creates 150KB photos? As for the movies, this sounds like a DVD rip using MPEG-2 rather than a modern AVC or HEVC encoder, which can give good movie quality at 1.5GB.
That's incredibly judgemental and misguided. Your views are based on your own experiences and circumstances. I have a love-hate relationship with FB, disliking it for many of reasons you mention, plus more. But it is a good way to stay in touch with people and even augment other forms of communication. My wife is from the other side of the world and we both have friends and family in many places we already communicate with via phone, Skype, email, normal mail and more, and places like FB still add value to relationships. If it doesn't work for you, fine, but there's no need to be so rude and call somebody lazy like that.