I think the iMac Pro sounds good. I like the many cores etc. Since I am a video editing hobbyist, I sure can use them. I have a fully loaded 27" late 2013 iMac today which did cost me a small fortune. I have an extra cinema display attached to it and external RAID enclosure for more space and speed.
But I would really like a more modular machine. Right now I could use a better GPU for rendering. Of course the CPUs are maxed out too, but a new GPU would be great and could extend the life of the machine. I hate that I have to ditch a perfectly fine 27" monitor, well the entire machine just to upgrade. At least I got the better CPU and GPU.
Since I don't have a money tree in my garden, it becomes expensive.:D
Besides from OS X, it is mostly FCP X that keeps me on the Apple platform. Not having to tinker with hardware was also a part of it, but I guess that is why you pay the premium price. I thought about building a Hackingtosh as that would enable me to do small upgrades.
I guess I have to start saving up money to get a new machine next year.:)
My messages/imessage/SMS are broken. Have spent hours trying to get it to work. From some people, I only receive them on my computer, from others they arrive on my iPhone. Receiving and sending SMS from my computer haven't worked in months. Sigh. If I have to spend hours getting things to work, I might as well build my own Windows computer again.
As someone who have been traveling to the states 3 times a year on vacation, I think it is time to say goodbye for now. I was already somewhat reluctant about our upcoming trip this fall because of the laptop/electronics ban as carry-on, which got cancelled but now there's talks about it again. I am not putting expensive laptops and camera gear in checked.
The house has already been rented, but it will be cancelled tonight.
It's a shame, I liked to book the premium seats at Norwegian which enabled me to sleep or at least relax all the 10 hours on the flight, then one night after landing in Las Vegas and then driving to Arizona to go mountain biking, although the roads these days seems to have been deteriorating too much to be driving a Corvette, Mustang or Camaro. I liked renting american cars so that was a part of the "package". It was good fun, but I guess I will just spend my money within Europe.
Sounds to me that they just forgot to keep the snow sloped away from the entrance. But that of course doesn't provide the clicks like climate change disasters does.
At work, I am currently working on tour self scan platform that enables people to use their cellphone to scan their products with an app and then check out themself. It will be rolled out at first to all our supermarkets in our discount chain with is about 500 stores. We have had it running in a few test stores for some time now. So it should be intersting to see. At the same time we are investing in fiber connections to all our stores, even in areas with poor internet connectivity we are digging down fiber. While we are not becoming internet providers ourselves it will enable these areas to get better and faster internet.
Not to worry, I doubt that they will be forced to delete any posts calling someone nazis.
I just read a news article about some "extreme right" nazis. (Sorry, in Danish http://jyllands-posten.dk/inte... ) And they might be nazis, but who knows, it's a word that gets thrown around a lot these days so it has lost all meaning.
Thankfully, I am not in operations so I don't have to be available all the time.:D But I have deadlines to meet so sometimes I have to isolate myself for a few days.
But it seems like when you are too available, people seems to ask for help alle the time for something they could figure out if they would spend 3 minutes on it. So a bit of latency in the response filters out all that.
It can be impossible from time to time. We got to a point where I had interruptions multiple times pr hour. So I never got any work done besides helping others. So I: 1) Shut down Outlook 2) Shut down Lync 3) Put my iPhone in airplane mode 4) Set my desk phone status to being in a meeting for a few hours.
I check my mail 2-3 times a day and then shut it down again.
If somone complains about me not being available or that I haven't completed a task, I inform them that I have more tasks than time and I ask my boss to prioritize my assignments.
(In the case where you don't have a boss who acknowledges the fact that there's too much work, I suggest start looking for another job.)
He has pulled that butthurt stunt before. Because he thinks that with the "brexit", the only country who speaks English are leaving. He certainly going to alienate a lot more. There's a lot of us who don't understand German or French and if they again threaten to drop English, there's a lot of us who won't be able to understand what the leaders of our country are saying.
It would be yet another nail in the EUs coffin, and even though I like the concept of the EU as it was originally sold. I don't want what we have now or where it's going. We where specifically told that it would NOT be the United States of Europe but a trade union.
But let them speak French, I will welcome that so that we can get rid of the EU.
Aren't they called hybrid drives? (although they only are read cache)
Fusion drive, at least in the OS X world, are tiered storage, where tier 1 are a PCI-E flash drive and tier 2 are SATA. Least used data are migrated to tier 2, data are written to tier 1(up to 4 GB on my machine) and then destaged to tier 2 after a while to make room for more writes.
9 ouf out of ten "notifications" from their iPhone app, the little number in red, are paid(I suppose) notifications. So I ended up uninstalling it some time ago. Sort of like before I deleted my Twitter and Facebook accounts, they liked to "ping" me if I hadn't used their app in a day or two. "Someone posted something" or "someone tweeted something". Was it a message directed at me, or did it "tag"/include me? Had I participated in the discussion? Nope, they just wanted to make sure that I used their app and got trained properly so that I would end up checking the damn thing every minute.
The last time I visited the US, I found biscuit & gravy flavored chips. I just had to try them and indeed they tasted like chips with gravy on them, I know this because back in the 80's it was in fashion here in Denmark to serve a few potato chips on the plate along with gravy and a slice of some sort of roast.
A "small" internal SSD is fine. Like 1TB. I would be running an external RAID encloure anyways. I can't see having less than 8TB for editing 4K videos anyway. But what I REALLY would like was a workstation like the old Mac Pro. My late 2013 iMac runs OK(the big 4gb graphics card and fastest cpu) still but it bothers me that I have to replace everything, including the screen. I can extend the life of it now that I make more and more in 4K by getting a faster external RAID.
So what I think what I will do is that I will build a 8 core hackintosh workstation so that I can get a proper workstation to run FCP X on now that Apple don't make one and haven't done for some time.
Same for me in Denmark. When the official holidays around christmas lands on weekend, we call it an "employer" christmas and the other way around when they land on work days.:)
Going off-grid an living in middle of nowhere sounds better every day. Of course that is not a effective and sustainable solution that can accomodate everone.:D
Just working hard and long is not the road to a great life if you are working on the wrong thing. Lyft, Uber, Fiverr etc. are among those. Working hard at creating those companies might have been.
No they don't This is yet another example of the outrage culture. We have seen examples of people being outraged at companies because they saw ad's from the companies in front of videos with content they didn't agree with. Don't ever be afraid to think that you have over estimated people ability to think.
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He knows many words.
They dont, it is very obvious these days that they are not as fantastic as one once thought.
I think the iMac Pro sounds good. I like the many cores etc. Since I am a video editing hobbyist, I sure can use them. I have a fully loaded 27" late 2013 iMac today which did cost me a small fortune. I have an extra cinema display attached to it and external RAID enclosure for more space and speed.
But I would really like a more modular machine. Right now I could use a better GPU for rendering. Of course the CPUs are maxed out too, but a new GPU would be great and could extend the life of the machine.
I hate that I have to ditch a perfectly fine 27" monitor, well the entire machine just to upgrade. At least I got the better CPU and GPU.
Since I don't have a money tree in my garden, it becomes expensive. :D
Besides from OS X, it is mostly FCP X that keeps me on the Apple platform. Not having to tinker with hardware was also a part of it, but I guess that is why you pay the premium price. I thought about building a Hackingtosh as that would enable me to do small upgrades.
I guess I have to start saving up money to get a new machine next year. :)
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I want a workstation.
My messages/imessage/SMS are broken. Have spent hours trying to get it to work. From some people, I only receive them on my computer, from others they arrive on my iPhone. Receiving and sending SMS from my computer haven't worked in months.
Sigh.
If I have to spend hours getting things to work, I might as well build my own Windows computer again.
As someone who have been traveling to the states 3 times a year on vacation, I think it is time to say goodbye for now.
I was already somewhat reluctant about our upcoming trip this fall because of the laptop/electronics ban as carry-on, which got cancelled but now there's talks about it again. I am not putting expensive laptops and camera gear in checked.
The house has already been rented, but it will be cancelled tonight.
It's a shame, I liked to book the premium seats at Norwegian which enabled me to sleep or at least relax all the 10 hours on the flight, then one night after landing in Las Vegas and then driving to Arizona to go mountain biking, although the roads these days seems to have been deteriorating too much to be driving a Corvette, Mustang or Camaro. I liked renting american cars so that was a part of the "package".
It was good fun, but I guess I will just spend my money within Europe.
They have all gone to hell.
But most of those people we get have no qualifications, and those who have qualifications, are screened and accepted into the US or Canada.
Sounds to me that they just forgot to keep the snow sloped away from the entrance.
But that of course doesn't provide the clicks like climate change disasters does.
At work, I am currently working on tour self scan platform that enables people to use their cellphone to scan their products with an app and then check out themself. It will be rolled out at first to all our supermarkets in our discount chain with is about 500 stores. We have had it running in a few test stores for some time now.
So it should be intersting to see.
At the same time we are investing in fiber connections to all our stores, even in areas with poor internet connectivity we are digging down fiber. While we are not becoming internet providers ourselves it will enable these areas to get better and faster internet.
Not worth reading as we all know that WSJ are fake news. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not to worry, I doubt that they will be forced to delete any posts calling someone nazis.
I just read a news article about some "extreme right" nazis. (Sorry, in Danish http://jyllands-posten.dk/inte... )
And they might be nazis, but who knows, it's a word that gets thrown around a lot these days so it has lost all meaning.
Thankfully, I am not in operations so I don't have to be available all the time. :D But I have deadlines to meet so sometimes I have to isolate myself for a few days.
But it seems like when you are too available, people seems to ask for help alle the time for something they could figure out if they would spend 3 minutes on it.
So a bit of latency in the response filters out all that.
It can be impossible from time to time. We got to a point where I had interruptions multiple times pr hour. So I never got any work done besides helping others.
So I:
1) Shut down Outlook
2) Shut down Lync
3) Put my iPhone in airplane mode
4) Set my desk phone status to being in a meeting for a few hours.
I check my mail 2-3 times a day and then shut it down again.
If somone complains about me not being available or that I haven't completed a task, I inform them that I have more tasks than time and I ask my boss to prioritize my assignments.
(In the case where you don't have a boss who acknowledges the fact that there's too much work, I suggest start looking for another job.)
He has pulled that butthurt stunt before. Because he thinks that with the "brexit", the only country who speaks English are leaving.
He certainly going to alienate a lot more.
There's a lot of us who don't understand German or French and if they again threaten to drop English, there's a lot of us who won't be able to understand what the leaders of our country are saying.
It would be yet another nail in the EUs coffin, and even though I like the concept of the EU as it was originally sold. I don't want what we have now or where it's going. We where specifically told that it would NOT be the United States of Europe but a trade union.
But let them speak French, I will welcome that so that we can get rid of the EU.
Aren't they called hybrid drives? (although they only are read cache)
Fusion drive, at least in the OS X world, are tiered storage, where tier 1 are a PCI-E flash drive and tier 2 are SATA. Least used data are migrated to tier 2, data are written to tier 1(up to 4 GB on my machine) and then destaged to tier 2 after a while to make room for more writes.
9 ouf out of ten "notifications" from their iPhone app, the little number in red, are paid(I suppose) notifications. So I ended up uninstalling it some time ago.
Sort of like before I deleted my Twitter and Facebook accounts, they liked to "ping" me if I hadn't used their app in a day or two. "Someone posted something" or "someone tweeted something". Was it a message directed at me, or did it "tag"/include me? Had I participated in the discussion? Nope, they just wanted to make sure that I used their app and got trained properly so that I would end up checking the damn thing every minute.
The last time I visited the US, I found biscuit & gravy flavored chips.
I just had to try them and indeed they tasted like chips with gravy on them, I know this because back in the 80's it was in fashion here in Denmark to serve a few potato chips on the plate along with gravy and a slice of some sort of roast.
This article sounds so last century.
A "small" internal SSD is fine. Like 1TB. I would be running an external RAID encloure anyways. I can't see having less than 8TB for editing 4K videos anyway.
But what I REALLY would like was a workstation like the old Mac Pro. My late 2013 iMac runs OK(the big 4gb graphics card and fastest cpu) still but it bothers me that I have to replace everything, including the screen. I can extend the life of it now that I make more and more in 4K by getting a faster external RAID.
So what I think what I will do is that I will build a 8 core hackintosh workstation so that I can get a proper workstation to run FCP X on now that Apple don't make one and haven't done for some time.
Same for me in Denmark. When the official holidays around christmas lands on weekend, we call it an "employer" christmas and the other way around when they land on work days. :)
anything coming from Hollywood anymore.
It seems the sims are running simulations in my simulated universe.
- The creator.
Going off-grid an living in middle of nowhere sounds better every day. Of course that is not a effective and sustainable solution that can accomodate everone. :D
Just working hard and long is not the road to a great life if you are working on the wrong thing. Lyft, Uber, Fiverr etc. are among those. Working hard at creating those companies might have been.
No they don't
This is yet another example of the outrage culture. We have seen examples of people being outraged at companies because they saw ad's from the companies in front of videos with content they didn't agree with.
Don't ever be afraid to think that you have over estimated people ability to think.