Which is why I bought a full suite of CS6 when CC announced and never touched that stuff. I did have to buy a new copy of Photoshop Elements last year when I found that my new Lumix RAW format wasn't supported, that's the only money Adobe has seen from me in ages. I need to work more on DxO's editor and check out others as I know the day will come when CS6 will no longer work on my Mac.
I did see one feature that impressed me. They added a deglare filter in Photoshop that I saw demonstrated using a photo of a music CD still in the shrinkwrap. Quite interesting, still not worth the subscription.
Ditto. Me, I want an iPhone 5-size smartphone. I do not want bigger, trends like this could end up pushing me back to a flip phone and an iPod Touch, which would save me a huge amount of money on my cell bill.
I wish I hadn't. 12 also breaks progress syncing in iBooks with previous iOS versions, it took me a lot of digging to find that KyBook and PocketBook are the only reliable epub readers that work with older versions of iOS. Not to mention the new UI is pretty pathetic.
I will buy a new MacBook Pro, but when I say new, I mean a 2012, as that's the last year they were made with screws for the internal components. They run around $600 or less. My last two, both 2011s, both blew up within a few months of each other: one the power regulator chip set died, the other the external video card. My iMac was an older generation, but then the video card started failing and it was stolen, insurance bought me a '15.
It is baffling to me that they'd abandon MagSafe, something that I consider perhaps the greatest advancement in laptop tech. And I find it odd that most cell phone makers are following their lead with getting rid of headphone jacks. I'd settle for the return of Zombie Steve Jobs, I think he'd still be more creative than Cook.
Yep, got it yesterday. The curious thing is I'm hearing that other solar observatories have been shut down in other countries, haven't looked in to it yet.
The one word that the update doesn't contain is "arrest".
And my wife works at Apache Point Observatory, a mile away, and thus far unaffected. I've done lots of photography at both sites and been all over the place, inside and out of both telescopes.
At first I thought it was a manhunt, but they wouldn't exclude local law enforcement, and they wouldn't stay in one area for so long. Then for giggles I watched parts of some of the conspiracy videos on YouTube, and I ran in to a comment that had some resonance. The poster said that he saw a comment on another conspiracy vid (therefore it must be true) that a Chinese spy had been caught with 8 computers spying on Holloman Air Force Base. First off, HAFB is a training base flying F-16s and MQ-9 UAVs, the former have been around for decades and the latter aren't that interesting. Not much secret going on there. Now, perhaps the spy was spying on White Sands Missile Range? He would have done better positioning himself in the Organ Mountains on the other side of the basin, except that's pretty rocky, it would've been much more comfortable hiding in the forest over here. Who knows.
Some of the other conspiracy theories were amusing. The sun went out! (we'd know it 8 minutes later, and we know how our sun will die). Something dark passed in front of the sun! (several observatories around the world watch the sun all the time and no one else reported anything - and they would have reported it). They found Planet X! (no one else reported it - see previous).
If we ever get actual information as to what went on, it might be interesting. Or it might not be.
If they do, ALL of the interiors will have been soundstaged because the actual interiors there kinda suck. Looks like 1970s classrooms and very old electronics. (I live 20 minutes from there and have spent a lot of time up there photographing.)
I've been mulling over the lack of an armageddon since the breech happened. I'm not a conspiracy theory kind of guy, but my personal conclusion is that it was done by a state actor, and that actor was China. My suspicion is they hoovered Equifax because the exploit made them vulnerable and in doing so it gave China access to a treasure trove of information not just on pretty much every American, but a specific subset: every American working for the U.S. government. Every CIA agent, every NSA agent, in addition to every head of industry, every computer chip researcher. Anyone who might be of interest. At first I thought it might have been theft for stealing medical insurance coverage, but not only did that not happen, but nothing happened. It was such a huge haul of information that no criminal org capable of stealing that amount of info is going to sit on it - they need/want to monetize it for their efforts, but a government who wanted it for different purposes could.
is if Equifax gets hacked yet again, because there's a fresh new Struts weakness that was announced within the last week that was every bit as bad that lead to this breech. I would fine it hilarious if they're getting cleaned out once again even as we post.
I'm quite fond of DxO's FilmPack app, it works both as a standalone and as a PS add-in. I love B&W photo effects (what can I say, I started shooting in the '70s and doing my own developing and printing). I'm also one of those who, when Adobe came out with Creative Cloud, told them to lump it. I bought a complete set of CS6 and am sitting on it until they pry my cold dead fingers from it, or until my OS stops running it, something like that.
I did break down and buy a new copy of Photoshop Elements, one-time purchase. I bought a new Panasonic Lumix DC-ZS70 last year (AMAZING camera) and my old Photoshop can't handle the RAW format). So I open the RAW in Elements, do initial adjustments, save it as a PSD, then do further work in CS6. Clunky, but it works.
That was my first impression looking at the base, that the foundation was woefully inadequate. I've spent a lot of time at construction and industrial sites and I wonder how many of those similar installations are going to topple in the future unless substantially guyed.
I'll probably look for the series on streaming after it finishes and complete viewing it later. I did enjoy it, but I thought it kinda jumped the shark for me after Bernadette and Howard married and it became obvious that Sheldon and Amy were headed towards marriage.
9,000' up in the middle of the Lincoln National Forest, we barely get commercial broadcast radio at our house. We have fiber internet but I don't want to pay for CBS All Access or whatever it's called, I'm quite happy with HBO and Netflix for entertainment.
For me it was OK even when Penny and Leonard got married, but as soon as EVERYONE started having stable relationships and getting married? No. I think you nailed it - it turned in to something like Friends, I never could watch that show. I missed last season and most of the previous as we cancelled our DirecTV and lost access to CBS, and I really didn't miss it, which is sad as one of the astronomy programs that my wife runs was the inspiration for the lunar laser experiment early in the show's run.
Earlier this week I once again looked in to the Brief clone marketplace and was rather amazed at what was there compared to a few years ago, including Mac and Linux offerings! I'm planning on checking out a couple soon. Feature-wise, they looked quite impressive. It'll be interesting to see if my fingers remember any shortcuts from the '90s. And I recently came across my Brief manuals! Pity I couldn't find the floppies.
Now if I could find a clone of Sourcerer's Apprentice!
I own several pair of Duluth Trading cargo pocket pants that have awesome deep pockets, I can stick my hands in there past the wrist. My wife is an astronomer, manages a crew that operates a multi-million dollar 3.5 meter telescope. Between her telescope and the 2.5 meter companion, there's over a half dozen women astronomers. They handle nitrogen dewar wrenches, custom-made tools, all sorts of tools on the job, and they can't get decent work pants. My wife bought a pair of women's Duluth Trading cargo pocket pants, allegedly the same model as mine: pockets are ridiculously dinky.
Women work real jobs and need pants with real pockets, regardless of whether it holds a cell phone or not (it's probably not holding a cell phone when they're working as they don't work well on the mountain). Go ahead and continue making fashionable pants for women who want them, but also make work pants for women who need them!
My town is actually classed as a village of 800, not to quibble, my nearest city is 30k. The nearest GOOD cities are 100k and close to a million, but those are 90 minutes and 2 hours away, respectively. I can appreciate that it's easier to test such vehicles in well-defined cities and best to start there, Phoenix is nigh ideal with good (albeit hot as hell) weather and its grid layout and flat terrain. San Francisco is great for all its tech incubator resources. And cities certainly have their challenges. And big cities have a greater need for AVs than my little city much less my village. They've been in those cities for a few years now, and sooner or later AVs WILL appear in my village, and if they don't test up here, including all-wheel drive where they'll need to make decisions whether should they circle 3/4ths of a mile around a block or attempt an unpaved pothole-filled road? Locals know to not use one road next to my house during the winter going up or down if there's the least chance of ice: will an AV be smart enough?
I think they should have additional test groups in tougher areas. GM says it's going to start selling AV delivery vans next year. Clearly those will be going to high-density cities, but they indicate that GM is thinking towards selling AV passenger cars. Those cars will eventually be driven in to rough areas: they had better have been extensively tested in those areas under all sorts of conditions! I see people trying to drive 2WD vehicles up this mountain during snow storms without chains! Lots of people are fundamentally stupid and ill-equipped and place unjustified faith in their cars: AVs aren't going to fix this. As is sometimes seen on this site - Social Engineering: Because there's no patch for human stupidity. Maybe we'll get lucky and an AV will say "I'm sorry, Dave, I cannot do that" if some idiot tells it to drive up to the ski area during a snow storm when the car has 2WD and no snow tires or chains. I hope so.
Oh, I most definitely do pay attention! It was one of those situations where you see something out of the corner of your eye and then it's in front of your car in the next instant, that deer was running down that slope full-tilt boogie. Every other time we've had a deer or elk encounter we've had plenty of time to come to a stop, not this time. If there's one thing that I hate it's my car being damaged because it means 2-4 weeks of it being out of service, so I drive aware and paranoid. If my car is damaged in the winter, which this wasn't, I can't get another Subaru as a rental.
I absolutely love my Outback, sweetest car I've had in the 3+ decades I've been driving. But recently I've been driving a new Forester loaner from the dealership when I've been getting work done on my car or my wife's, and that might be our next car. Mine is the 4th Subaru in our family.
My 2015 Subaru Crosstrek has the Eyesight system, which I absolutely love and is amazing. It provides adaptive cruise control, automatic braking, and lane drift notification. Two weeks after I got the car a baby deer ran down off a mountain right in front of the car while I was on a sharp curve. At 35-40 MPH I had no time to react. The Eyesight system didn't see it as it was just barely over the hood, and the baby deer literally exploded in the collision.
Now, Eyesight is not a complete sensor suite. It's optical-only and sees straight ahead in a limited cone, a full suite with RADAR/LIDAR etc. should have seen the deer coming down the hillside. It's an unusual environment and I'm curious if it would have reacted correctly in an environment where a mountain slope is almost touching the road.
THIS is one of the reasons why I'd like to see autonomous vehicles tested up here! Sooner or later someone is going to buy an AV when they go for sale in the general market, and they're going to be brought up here by vacationers, and they probably won't work well because they weren't tested up here extensively.
The human was watching TV on her phone, more specifically. I can't figure out why the automatic braking was disabled. My dad, who lives in Phoenix and is in his 80s, always mentions that the driver is a convicted felon. I can't imagine what that has to do with the accident in his head. I guess once you're a felon you should never have a job again?
I live in a rural area outside a city of 30,000 people. Any time I go to town it costs me an hour going up and down the mountain, time that I would appreciate recovering in an autonomous vehicle or ride share, which does not exist. Therefore, why shouldn't these cars be tested up here? There are many other small towns all over the place up here that would likewise benefit from AVs and such up here.
Even when I lived in Phoenix, my friends were spread out all over the valley, so ride sharing and public transport and unpredictable scheduling would make it difficult for either to be viable. I'm not sure how well AVs stand up to the summer monsoons in Phoenix as I've been gone for over a decade.
I think the article is biased in favor of large population centers, as is autonomous car development. I think AV car development would have been better off on highways where the environment seems to me to be more predictable.
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Which is why I bought a full suite of CS6 when CC announced and never touched that stuff. I did have to buy a new copy of Photoshop Elements last year when I found that my new Lumix RAW format wasn't supported, that's the only money Adobe has seen from me in ages. I need to work more on DxO's editor and check out others as I know the day will come when CS6 will no longer work on my Mac.
I did see one feature that impressed me. They added a deglare filter in Photoshop that I saw demonstrated using a photo of a music CD still in the shrinkwrap. Quite interesting, still not worth the subscription.
Ditto. Me, I want an iPhone 5-size smartphone. I do not want bigger, trends like this could end up pushing me back to a flip phone and an iPod Touch, which would save me a huge amount of money on my cell bill.
I wish I hadn't. 12 also breaks progress syncing in iBooks with previous iOS versions, it took me a lot of digging to find that KyBook and PocketBook are the only reliable epub readers that work with older versions of iOS. Not to mention the new UI is pretty pathetic.
I will buy a new MacBook Pro, but when I say new, I mean a 2012, as that's the last year they were made with screws for the internal components. They run around $600 or less. My last two, both 2011s, both blew up within a few months of each other: one the power regulator chip set died, the other the external video card. My iMac was an older generation, but then the video card started failing and it was stolen, insurance bought me a '15.
It is baffling to me that they'd abandon MagSafe, something that I consider perhaps the greatest advancement in laptop tech. And I find it odd that most cell phone makers are following their lead with getting rid of headphone jacks. I'd settle for the return of Zombie Steve Jobs, I think he'd still be more creative than Cook.
Yep, got it yesterday. The curious thing is I'm hearing that other solar observatories have been shut down in other countries, haven't looked in to it yet.
The one word that the update doesn't contain is "arrest".
And my wife works at Apache Point Observatory, a mile away, and thus far unaffected. I've done lots of photography at both sites and been all over the place, inside and out of both telescopes.
At first I thought it was a manhunt, but they wouldn't exclude local law enforcement, and they wouldn't stay in one area for so long. Then for giggles I watched parts of some of the conspiracy videos on YouTube, and I ran in to a comment that had some resonance. The poster said that he saw a comment on another conspiracy vid (therefore it must be true) that a Chinese spy had been caught with 8 computers spying on Holloman Air Force Base. First off, HAFB is a training base flying F-16s and MQ-9 UAVs, the former have been around for decades and the latter aren't that interesting. Not much secret going on there. Now, perhaps the spy was spying on White Sands Missile Range? He would have done better positioning himself in the Organ Mountains on the other side of the basin, except that's pretty rocky, it would've been much more comfortable hiding in the forest over here. Who knows.
Some of the other conspiracy theories were amusing. The sun went out! (we'd know it 8 minutes later, and we know how our sun will die). Something dark passed in front of the sun! (several observatories around the world watch the sun all the time and no one else reported anything - and they would have reported it). They found Planet X! (no one else reported it - see previous).
If we ever get actual information as to what went on, it might be interesting. Or it might not be.
If they do, ALL of the interiors will have been soundstaged because the actual interiors there kinda suck. Looks like 1970s classrooms and very old electronics. (I live 20 minutes from there and have spent a lot of time up there photographing.)
I've been mulling over the lack of an armageddon since the breech happened. I'm not a conspiracy theory kind of guy, but my personal conclusion is that it was done by a state actor, and that actor was China. My suspicion is they hoovered Equifax because the exploit made them vulnerable and in doing so it gave China access to a treasure trove of information not just on pretty much every American, but a specific subset: every American working for the U.S. government. Every CIA agent, every NSA agent, in addition to every head of industry, every computer chip researcher. Anyone who might be of interest. At first I thought it might have been theft for stealing medical insurance coverage, but not only did that not happen, but nothing happened. It was such a huge haul of information that no criminal org capable of stealing that amount of info is going to sit on it - they need/want to monetize it for their efforts, but a government who wanted it for different purposes could.
is if Equifax gets hacked yet again, because there's a fresh new Struts weakness that was announced within the last week that was every bit as bad that lead to this breech. I would fine it hilarious if they're getting cleaned out once again even as we post.
I'm quite fond of DxO's FilmPack app, it works both as a standalone and as a PS add-in. I love B&W photo effects (what can I say, I started shooting in the '70s and doing my own developing and printing). I'm also one of those who, when Adobe came out with Creative Cloud, told them to lump it. I bought a complete set of CS6 and am sitting on it until they pry my cold dead fingers from it, or until my OS stops running it, something like that.
I did break down and buy a new copy of Photoshop Elements, one-time purchase. I bought a new Panasonic Lumix DC-ZS70 last year (AMAZING camera) and my old Photoshop can't handle the RAW format). So I open the RAW in Elements, do initial adjustments, save it as a PSD, then do further work in CS6. Clunky, but it works.
That was my first impression looking at the base, that the foundation was woefully inadequate. I've spent a lot of time at construction and industrial sites and I wonder how many of those similar installations are going to topple in the future unless substantially guyed.
I'll probably look for the series on streaming after it finishes and complete viewing it later. I did enjoy it, but I thought it kinda jumped the shark for me after Bernadette and Howard married and it became obvious that Sheldon and Amy were headed towards marriage.
9,000' up in the middle of the Lincoln National Forest, we barely get commercial broadcast radio at our house. We have fiber internet but I don't want to pay for CBS All Access or whatever it's called, I'm quite happy with HBO and Netflix for entertainment.
For me it was OK even when Penny and Leonard got married, but as soon as EVERYONE started having stable relationships and getting married? No. I think you nailed it - it turned in to something like Friends, I never could watch that show. I missed last season and most of the previous as we cancelled our DirecTV and lost access to CBS, and I really didn't miss it, which is sad as one of the astronomy programs that my wife runs was the inspiration for the lunar laser experiment early in the show's run.
Earlier this week I once again looked in to the Brief clone marketplace and was rather amazed at what was there compared to a few years ago, including Mac and Linux offerings! I'm planning on checking out a couple soon. Feature-wise, they looked quite impressive. It'll be interesting to see if my fingers remember any shortcuts from the '90s. And I recently came across my Brief manuals! Pity I couldn't find the floppies.
Now if I could find a clone of Sourcerer's Apprentice!
While I have held purses for girl friends before, my wife isn't the type to use one in normal circumstances. Her wallet is fatter than mine!
Thank you! We don't have a lot of shopping options in our area, but we can certainly look around.
I own several pair of Duluth Trading cargo pocket pants that have awesome deep pockets, I can stick my hands in there past the wrist. My wife is an astronomer, manages a crew that operates a multi-million dollar 3.5 meter telescope. Between her telescope and the 2.5 meter companion, there's over a half dozen women astronomers. They handle nitrogen dewar wrenches, custom-made tools, all sorts of tools on the job, and they can't get decent work pants. My wife bought a pair of women's Duluth Trading cargo pocket pants, allegedly the same model as mine: pockets are ridiculously dinky.
Women work real jobs and need pants with real pockets, regardless of whether it holds a cell phone or not (it's probably not holding a cell phone when they're working as they don't work well on the mountain). Go ahead and continue making fashionable pants for women who want them, but also make work pants for women who need them!
I thought Columbia was where they discovered electricity.
My town is actually classed as a village of 800, not to quibble, my nearest city is 30k. The nearest GOOD cities are 100k and close to a million, but those are 90 minutes and 2 hours away, respectively. I can appreciate that it's easier to test such vehicles in well-defined cities and best to start there, Phoenix is nigh ideal with good (albeit hot as hell) weather and its grid layout and flat terrain. San Francisco is great for all its tech incubator resources. And cities certainly have their challenges. And big cities have a greater need for AVs than my little city much less my village. They've been in those cities for a few years now, and sooner or later AVs WILL appear in my village, and if they don't test up here, including all-wheel drive where they'll need to make decisions whether should they circle 3/4ths of a mile around a block or attempt an unpaved pothole-filled road? Locals know to not use one road next to my house during the winter going up or down if there's the least chance of ice: will an AV be smart enough?
I think they should have additional test groups in tougher areas. GM says it's going to start selling AV delivery vans next year. Clearly those will be going to high-density cities, but they indicate that GM is thinking towards selling AV passenger cars. Those cars will eventually be driven in to rough areas: they had better have been extensively tested in those areas under all sorts of conditions! I see people trying to drive 2WD vehicles up this mountain during snow storms without chains! Lots of people are fundamentally stupid and ill-equipped and place unjustified faith in their cars: AVs aren't going to fix this. As is sometimes seen on this site - Social Engineering: Because there's no patch for human stupidity. Maybe we'll get lucky and an AV will say "I'm sorry, Dave, I cannot do that" if some idiot tells it to drive up to the ski area during a snow storm when the car has 2WD and no snow tires or chains. I hope so.
Oh, I most definitely do pay attention! It was one of those situations where you see something out of the corner of your eye and then it's in front of your car in the next instant, that deer was running down that slope full-tilt boogie. Every other time we've had a deer or elk encounter we've had plenty of time to come to a stop, not this time. If there's one thing that I hate it's my car being damaged because it means 2-4 weeks of it being out of service, so I drive aware and paranoid. If my car is damaged in the winter, which this wasn't, I can't get another Subaru as a rental.
I absolutely love my Outback, sweetest car I've had in the 3+ decades I've been driving. But recently I've been driving a new Forester loaner from the dealership when I've been getting work done on my car or my wife's, and that might be our next car. Mine is the 4th Subaru in our family.
My 2015 Subaru Crosstrek has the Eyesight system, which I absolutely love and is amazing. It provides adaptive cruise control, automatic braking, and lane drift notification. Two weeks after I got the car a baby deer ran down off a mountain right in front of the car while I was on a sharp curve. At 35-40 MPH I had no time to react. The Eyesight system didn't see it as it was just barely over the hood, and the baby deer literally exploded in the collision.
Now, Eyesight is not a complete sensor suite. It's optical-only and sees straight ahead in a limited cone, a full suite with RADAR/LIDAR etc. should have seen the deer coming down the hillside. It's an unusual environment and I'm curious if it would have reacted correctly in an environment where a mountain slope is almost touching the road.
THIS is one of the reasons why I'd like to see autonomous vehicles tested up here! Sooner or later someone is going to buy an AV when they go for sale in the general market, and they're going to be brought up here by vacationers, and they probably won't work well because they weren't tested up here extensively.
The human was watching TV on her phone, more specifically. I can't figure out why the automatic braking was disabled. My dad, who lives in Phoenix and is in his 80s, always mentions that the driver is a convicted felon. I can't imagine what that has to do with the accident in his head. I guess once you're a felon you should never have a job again?
I live in a rural area outside a city of 30,000 people. Any time I go to town it costs me an hour going up and down the mountain, time that I would appreciate recovering in an autonomous vehicle or ride share, which does not exist. Therefore, why shouldn't these cars be tested up here? There are many other small towns all over the place up here that would likewise benefit from AVs and such up here.
Even when I lived in Phoenix, my friends were spread out all over the valley, so ride sharing and public transport and unpredictable scheduling would make it difficult for either to be viable. I'm not sure how well AVs stand up to the summer monsoons in Phoenix as I've been gone for over a decade.
I think the article is biased in favor of large population centers, as is autonomous car development. I think AV car development would have been better off on highways where the environment seems to me to be more predictable.