That was it. My chrome did the same thing not more than two hours ago...which means Acrobat updated itself silently. Which pisses me off. Now, what pisses me off even worse is that it's hard to turn off auto-update in Acrobat Reader DC and requires either editing the registry or downloading and installing another adobe preference manager program (link to help article: https://forums.adobe.com/threa...). And even worse, the data collection was checked by default. A-holes.
The public statement released in Portuguese by the airline does not say anything about a drone. Get back to me when someone comes up with a squashed drone that has a paint match with the aircraft.
Just buy the right Mac. It's a business expense anyway, and she can save time (and therefore $$$) by not having to eff around with it. I'm in the same position, having proprietary tools that run Windows only, and it would be a disaster if that environment got hosed. I run a MBP with a Win7 VM, and from time to time I take a snapshot of the VM so that it can be restored instantly if necessary. Instantly. It has completely stopped me from wasting a day or three every year reinstalling Windows and getting the environment set up again, like I used to do running a Dell.
Seriously dude, lots of people don't care about "status." We use computers as tools to get sh*t done, and we need tools that work all the time without having to screw around with them much. Macs are closest to that ideal.
Shawn Lucas, process server to the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz who, was found dead in his bathroom 8/2/2016, no cause of death released yet. He had served the DNC and DWS a month earlier in an election fraud case related to the Sanders campaign sabotage, and he can be seen doing this in a video posted to Youtube. This story is publicized exactly nowhere in the mainstream media.
It happens with lots of devices, sometimes firmware fixable and sometimes not...depends on whether the manufacturer has chosen to support the product to that level (or if they're capable). A/V integration professionals deal with this all the time, and our answer is to run everything analog component if possible. The quality difference really isn't that noticeable on most combinations of source and display, so until the content flags get enabled we're at least able to get an image up reliably. At the moment the manufacturers we work with do a lot of finger pointing, e.g. "our device complies with the spec, so the problem must be with your other equipment," but everyone knows it's a big problem. There just doesn't seem to be any recourse--the content industry has the power to set the standards.
That's bullshit. Here's an example of why: Next time you go to Italy, take note of how many people there appear to be seriously busting their asses at work. Nobody-- it's like nobody works very much at all! Why? How the heck do they survive that way?? Start looking at the things you see. Most everything says "Made in Italy". Your silverware at dinner, your rental car, the plumbing fixtures in your hotel room, the train that takes you from Rome to Florence, the wine you drink, the shoes in the shops, etc, etc, etc. Their government and their cultural outlook protects them from the virtual slave labor of the world's "developing" countries.
Only works if you have a network connection. When you're working on, say, a construction site in the early stages, with a very mobile workforce, it's a little tough to use the VPN. And a cellphone modem doesn't work very well three stories underground.
As an A/V professional, I'd be happy with a new HDMI spec that actually worked right and reliably. Us folks in the biz are still using analog component video for HD, and will until things like HDCP handshake errors and mysterious port disablings are a thing of the past.
Not true!! The playing field isn't level between the first and third worlds, and that's the fundamental cause of the financial incentive for companies to use overseas labor. Yes, we exploit people in third-world countries, but this "truly free market" of which you speak would include creating comparable labor conditions for all countries who trade with each other. That currently isn't the case. Demanding comparable labor conditions isn't protectionism, and would actually lower the "immoral" trade barrier.
That business about groupware sucking is bullshit. Some of us *are* managers, and we need to know what's going on with the projects we're responsible for. So rather than, let's say, walking around to everyone's door asking what they did yesterday, if I have groupware I can check the common tasklist and not piss off my people with an interruption. Case in point--where would you programmers be without your ticket system? That's groupware. Duh. Stupid, stupid, stupid. F that groupware shit! Gonna stick it to the MAN!
I CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE CLOSE TO WORK. Hear me scream this. I FUCKING HATE THE COMMUTE. I make really good money, but I live in a suburban ghetto because it's what I can afford while living within my means. Real estate in D.C. is insane, and what I *can* afford is the time it takes to commute, not a $500k one-bedroom condo within walking distance of the office. Sure it's soul-sucking and frustrating and stupid, but the money just isn't there to change it.
There's a company in the movie server business already called Kaleidescape, and they make the coolest DVD server that costs more than your SUV. They'll no doubt defend their name if this thing hits the street as a "Kaleidoscope."
WORST move my company ever made. It's ridiculously unreliable--when clients call in, the first thing we do is tell them that if we're disconnected, we'll call them back--on our mobiles.
Oh yes, of course they've traced this and tried that, and "it should be okay now," etc. But we're still throwing our phones in frustration.
I will bet there'll be a backlash, and then the provider companies will start getting serious about reliability, and only then will it be safe to switch over.
This is not an engineering hack, this is the same trap all the tweako audio magazines fall into. Sure it sounds better after he spend a hundred bucks and a few hours of his time... show me the measurements and I'll believe it wasn't an emotionally influenced subjective improvement.
High-end home a/v is what I do for a living. We install a *lot* of plasmas, and in the past few months, a lot of big LCDs. For my own work, I can't stand to look at an LCD computer monitor--it kills me (so I just stand around and b.s. with everyone else in the office who can't look at theirs without pain). Plasmas generally suck but are way better than even two years ago. Some of the latest generation DLP rear-projection TVs have a gorgeous image with HD sources. The new Sharp 45" LCD panel is native 1080 lines vertical and it looks better than any other LCD bigger than 20" although the artifacts are still obvious. It all depends on what format the material was originally recorded, and what was done to it in the chain from lens to screen. Playing with display settings sometimes has counterintuitive results--many plasmas look better at 720p than 1080i...depends on the native resolution of the panel and the quirks of the scaler.
When this all shakes out in five years maybe, we'll be looking at display technologies that are still in the lab or just barely out, and we'll have a more consistent standard for hi-def that will be widely used, giving plenty of decent looking source material to watch. The immature LCOS devices that Sony and JVC are using look unbelievably good, unbelievably. It's just that most people haven't had the opportunity to see them, and in any case it'll be another year before there's a widespread storage format for HD movies. I can't wait for a 4k by 2k fixed-pixel computer display to come into the price range of us mortals.
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That was it. My chrome did the same thing not more than two hours ago...which means Acrobat updated itself silently. Which pisses me off. Now, what pisses me off even worse is that it's hard to turn off auto-update in Acrobat Reader DC and requires either editing the registry or downloading and installing another adobe preference manager program (link to help article: https://forums.adobe.com/threa...). And even worse, the data collection was checked by default. A-holes.
Aaaaand.... it was NOT a drone:
http://avherald.com/h?article=...
Yes.
The public statement released in Portuguese by the airline does not say anything about a drone. Get back to me when someone comes up with a squashed drone that has a paint match with the aircraft.
I logged in just to report your troll post.
Let's see.... environmental monitoring satellite, measuring ice coverage and sea levels.....
Just buy the right Mac. It's a business expense anyway, and she can save time (and therefore $$$) by not having to eff around with it. I'm in the same position, having proprietary tools that run Windows only, and it would be a disaster if that environment got hosed. I run a MBP with a Win7 VM, and from time to time I take a snapshot of the VM so that it can be restored instantly if necessary. Instantly. It has completely stopped me from wasting a day or three every year reinstalling Windows and getting the environment set up again, like I used to do running a Dell.
Seriously dude, lots of people don't care about "status." We use computers as tools to get sh*t done, and we need tools that work all the time without having to screw around with them much. Macs are closest to that ideal.
Shawn Lucas, process server to the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz who, was found dead in his bathroom 8/2/2016, no cause of death released yet. He had served the DNC and DWS a month earlier in an election fraud case related to the Sanders campaign sabotage, and he can be seen doing this in a video posted to Youtube. This story is publicized exactly nowhere in the mainstream media.
If you'd been getting shit done he wouldn't have come over to check on you, slacker.
It happens with lots of devices, sometimes firmware fixable and sometimes not...depends on whether the manufacturer has chosen to support the product to that level (or if they're capable). A/V integration professionals deal with this all the time, and our answer is to run everything analog component if possible. The quality difference really isn't that noticeable on most combinations of source and display, so until the content flags get enabled we're at least able to get an image up reliably. At the moment the manufacturers we work with do a lot of finger pointing, e.g. "our device complies with the spec, so the problem must be with your other equipment," but everyone knows it's a big problem. There just doesn't seem to be any recourse--the content industry has the power to set the standards.
That's bullshit. Here's an example of why: Next time you go to Italy, take note of how many people there appear to be seriously busting their asses at work. Nobody-- it's like nobody works very much at all! Why? How the heck do they survive that way?? Start looking at the things you see. Most everything says "Made in Italy". Your silverware at dinner, your rental car, the plumbing fixtures in your hotel room, the train that takes you from Rome to Florence, the wine you drink, the shoes in the shops, etc, etc, etc. Their government and their cultural outlook protects them from the virtual slave labor of the world's "developing" countries.
Too bad it looks like shit.
Only works if you have a network connection. When you're working on, say, a construction site in the early stages, with a very mobile workforce, it's a little tough to use the VPN. And a cellphone modem doesn't work very well three stories underground.
As an A/V professional, I'd be happy with a new HDMI spec that actually worked right and reliably. Us folks in the biz are still using analog component video for HD, and will until things like HDCP handshake errors and mysterious port disablings are a thing of the past.
Come on, this isn't news. It's just another self-involved blog post... jesus, why should I care? Waste of space.
Dudes... I could hardly care less how the effing bezel looks. Why gush over the industrial design if the panel itself has problems??
Not true!! The playing field isn't level between the first and third worlds, and that's the fundamental cause of the financial incentive for companies to use overseas labor. Yes, we exploit people in third-world countries, but this "truly free market" of which you speak would include creating comparable labor conditions for all countries who trade with each other. That currently isn't the case. Demanding comparable labor conditions isn't protectionism, and would actually lower the "immoral" trade barrier.
That business about groupware sucking is bullshit. Some of us *are* managers, and we need to know what's going on with the projects we're responsible for. So rather than, let's say, walking around to everyone's door asking what they did yesterday, if I have groupware I can check the common tasklist and not piss off my people with an interruption. Case in point--where would you programmers be without your ticket system? That's groupware. Duh. Stupid, stupid, stupid. F that groupware shit! Gonna stick it to the MAN!
I CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE CLOSE TO WORK. Hear me scream this. I FUCKING HATE THE COMMUTE. I make really good money, but I live in a suburban ghetto because it's what I can afford while living within my means. Real estate in D.C. is insane, and what I *can* afford is the time it takes to commute, not a $500k one-bedroom condo within walking distance of the office. Sure it's soul-sucking and frustrating and stupid, but the money just isn't there to change it.
There's a company in the movie server business already called Kaleidescape, and they make the coolest DVD server that costs more than your SUV. They'll no doubt defend their name if this thing hits the street as a "Kaleidoscope."
WORST move my company ever made. It's ridiculously unreliable--when clients call in, the first thing we do is tell them that if we're disconnected, we'll call them back--on our mobiles.
Oh yes, of course they've traced this and tried that, and "it should be okay now," etc. But we're still throwing our phones in frustration.
I will bet there'll be a backlash, and then the provider companies will start getting serious about reliability, and only then will it be safe to switch over.
This is not an engineering hack, this is the same trap all the tweako audio magazines fall into. Sure it sounds better after he spend a hundred bucks and a few hours of his time... show me the measurements and I'll believe it wasn't an emotionally influenced subjective improvement.
High-end home a/v is what I do for a living. We install a *lot* of plasmas, and in the past few months, a lot of big LCDs. For my own work, I can't stand to look at an LCD computer monitor--it kills me (so I just stand around and b.s. with everyone else in the office who can't look at theirs without pain). Plasmas generally suck but are way better than even two years ago. Some of the latest generation DLP rear-projection TVs have a gorgeous image with HD sources. The new Sharp 45" LCD panel is native 1080 lines vertical and it looks better than any other LCD bigger than 20" although the artifacts are still obvious. It all depends on what format the material was originally recorded, and what was done to it in the chain from lens to screen. Playing with display settings sometimes has counterintuitive results--many plasmas look better at 720p than 1080i...depends on the native resolution of the panel and the quirks of the scaler.
When this all shakes out in five years maybe, we'll be looking at display technologies that are still in the lab or just barely out, and we'll have a more consistent standard for hi-def that will be widely used, giving plenty of decent looking source material to watch. The immature LCOS devices that Sony and JVC are using look unbelievably good, unbelievably. It's just that most people haven't had the opportunity to see them, and in any case it'll be another year before there's a widespread storage format for HD movies. I can't wait for a 4k by 2k fixed-pixel computer display to come into the price range of us mortals.
-fister
"(There, that ought to stress-test my new server!)"