Now OS X is showing its age, the updates on both the hardware and the OS have been lackluster.
What are you smoking?
The iMac Pro was great. The new Mac mini was fantastic. The newer laptops are really nice, the only issue being some have issues with the keyboard (which they've mostly resolved in newer models).
Mojave has been one of the better updates since they focused on optimization and stability improvements...
If I showed you a 2001 Titanium Powerbook. and the latest Macbook Pro, they will look rather similar
Go buy a bright purple Dell laptop then. Mac owner are the people who care about how well something functions, not how it looks.
An interesting aspect of this is that our solar system I think is in the part where the disc starts to bend, according to this diagram of where our solar system is in the galaxy...
It seems like it would be kind of irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but maybe for some reason in the places where the gas discs of a universe start to bend, life it more likely for some reason. Or course, with a sample size of one you can't really extrapolate much - just seems like an interesting coincidence.
If I'm wrong about the location I would love to know more exactly where we are.
I'm not sure they're pretending. I've met many in person, including a few fairly intelligent and well educated I really thought would know better.
I wonder how many more before you realize that actually most of the truly intelligent believe something you do not... and engage in introspection at that point.
That doesn't make sense, much the science is centered around the problem of feedback loops whereby although CO2 is clearly the cause of initial warming
That was the original theory, debunked by years of rather large CO2 increases without corresponding temperature increases that were supposed to have occurred.
The methane is more of a threat, but we'll see what actually happens. Not like the Earth has not had massive methane increases before, perhaps it dissipates in some way unanticipated since obviously we've not had greenhouse Earth in the past, just a warmer Earth.
Snow usually is melting during spring and early summe... there is no snow left in late summer. Otherwise it is not "snow" but a glacier.
Again, you really need to visit the mountains. Again, you really need to realize that rivers all over the world are fed year-round by snow melt, just as they are in the U.S.
Snow remaining through the winter is not often a glacier, usually it is a snowfield. If a snowfield grows long enough it may eventually (say a thousand years+) become a glacier. In the meantime, again I say to you - go into the rockies in the summer, any time, you will see snow on the high peaks. I have hiked many 14k peaks and all of them have snow at the top at any time of year... partly because even rain will often fall around tall peaks as snow. Partly because it's simply a lot colder up there and even in summer temperatures are not all that high.
You will need what, four times as many charging stations as gas pumps?
I actually totally agree with this point and I've made it before myself in the past, in terms of the practicality of all cars being electric.
However here we are just looking at rapid charging stations to make interstate travel feasible without huge delays to charge, and the map of charging networks I listed would be added on top of Tesla's Supercharging locations, which is already pretty extensive. The only place I would be hesitant to go with an all electric car on a road trip would be deep into Utah or the Southwest (maybe the Southwest has gotten better).
No, a larger range is better for precision in describing temperature, especially between 70-90F
Because most things need a reference and thats it, or do people not need to know sea level either?
Most people's reference of temperature is experience, and there is a fine grain to experience in that range, To me there is a noticeable difference in feeling cold at 71 but not at 72, for example. There's also a point just after 83 when I consider it to feel hot... all of this moderated by humidity of course. The desirable temperatures will differ per person, so trying to have some kind of base reference vs. as accurate as possible a description of the temperature, is insanity.
You ever hear about planes or rockets or whatever going at mach x? Speed of sound.
You're kind of dumb if you confuse the needs of technical units with human-oriented units. But even there, C is still fundamentally flawed since they based it around when water boils or freezes - both of which change with pressure, so the very fundamentals of C are based on a lie they try to tell about what the numbers mean.
Because of widespread counterfeiting on Amazon there are some things I am very reluctant to buy anymore from Amazon, like cables... I would either buy them from NewEgg or directly from the manufacturer (I am really hoping NewEgg does not have a similar issue here).
I would think there would be a very real risk that Amazon sales would decline if people found they could not trust Amazon to deliver the real product they thought they were ordering. Given how widespread and accurate fashion fakes are getting, would anyone order a designer purse from Amazon? Or specific clothing brands?
So, they buy Flickr, then intentionally take away what they themselves say was attracting new users.
But for a site like Flickr, they do not benefit from a sheer volume of new users.
They want users who are more serious about photos, not just people there to backup random photo libraries.
I personally have got back into using Flickr more again in recent months, and I think the quality of photos has increased.
Somehow I don't think you can successfully monetize an internet platform by taking away people's reason for using it.
They didn't take away everyone's reason. Just the ones that were not as much into photography.
To me Flickr provides by far the best way to view photos - where I can see the photo really well, in as best a quality as possible - but at the same time also have quick access to see important EXIF data containing technical details about the photo. There's no-one that does this better than Flickr.
That seems like a good idea, although the full statement is there is nothing to be gained by YOU sending the username in plain text...
I still would be uncomfortable even with that though, because in theory someone could brute-force reverse the hash and then they would have both things.
That is a really excellent point, that they have normalized common wearing of face masks across Asia... I had totally forgotten about that! I just figured masks were right out but respiratory masks are very common as you say. That combined with a little non-obvious eye makeup and a bit of gait adjustment and you should be well-hidden.
It could just upload a hash of your password... but even so I would not want my username going up with even just a hash to anywhere but where I am logging in.
Though for something this serious going through bugreport was a better idea, who knows how long it would have taken to be noticed going through Feedback...
Go into any mountain range during the summer and you can plainly see some snow still remains. It takes all season to melt, snow does not just melt instantly at temps above 0C.
Seriously have you never been to any mountains ever??? Communities all around the world rely on exactly this behavior to get water year round (where do you think water in rivers flowing through the U.S. come from?????), without any glaciers adding water to the mix.
I saw that yesterday on Twitter and thought it was an especially impressive looking flame, so you should actually both to click on the link... the shape of the flame is really interesting.
The very story is about how they not only listen, but actually rewarded someone they didn't promise anything...
The fact that response was delayed is an issue yes, but within a week is still pretty good compared to many companies customer response - which is never...
It's not worthless at all. Water is the most abundant thing and everyone knows its reference.
Totally irrelevant how common water is, people do not need to understand exactly how warm water is, just that it is hot enough to boil.
P.S. even the boiling thing is a fail, because the temperature water boils at varies by altitude! So the one thing Celsius set out to do cleanly, it cannot even manage correctly. Most of the world lives in places where the boiling temperature of water is not 100C. Utter fail.
Who gives decimal points in temperature? No one, that who.
That is exactly my point. By having fewer whole numbers you cannot having the reporting fidelity for normal temperature ranges that F allows for. I personally do not like using a less precise measuring unit. You go right ahead and enjoy your inferior means of denoting air temperature, it's only twice as bad at doing so as you pointed out... But from the 100C fiasco we know you like shoddy measurement systems.
I think they'd be worried that all the water would arrive at one time instead of being conveniently stored in glaciers
You are the THIRD PERSON I've had to explain how snow works.
In any large mountain range, in the winter (and even late into spring or even summer) snow will fall. That snow slowly melts, releasing water all spring, summer and fall.
Since there will be greater evaporation, there will be more snow, therefore more water released year round by snow...
Glaciers are very stingy with producing water because ice melts much more slowly than snow. So wouldn't an increase in snowfall and therefore snow melt, make up for loss of glacier water?
Living by the mountains, I know what actually happens is that you get snow, that melts through the year releasing the water... if the glaciers go you get a flood when they released what they have behind the dam, which is bad. But that is short term, after that there is more snow because of the increased ocean evaporation, and thus to some degree makes up for lost glacial melt.
It may alter the pattern somewhat but not as dramatically as you seem to think.
It's because of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayas. Moist air flowing off the Indian Ocean gets pushed up into the atmosphere by the mountains, condenses, falls as snow, then melts as runoff to feed the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in China, and the Ganges, Indus, and Brahmaputra Rivers of the Indian subcontinent.
That's great, but we are talking about the glaciers, not the cycle you just mention.
That cycle would continue - and with higher average temperatures, that means greater water evaporation from the oceans, leading to more moisture falling in the mountains, thus more runoff for the rivers.
So why should those governments be concerned, when they will be getting more water - not less? That's the effect a warmer planet has, more resources and a wider growing range for agriculture (those glaciers all melting means that more plants can grow at higher altitudes than was the case previously).
To me I am sensing more than a little undercurrent of worry from governments at what happens when poorer regions of the earth suddenly have a surplus of output and are not as reliant on aid from the west... so they try and scare everyone.
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Now OS X is showing its age, the updates on both the hardware and the OS have been lackluster.
What are you smoking?
The iMac Pro was great. The new Mac mini was fantastic. The newer laptops are really nice, the only issue being some have issues with the keyboard (which they've mostly resolved in newer models).
Mojave has been one of the better updates since they focused on optimization and stability improvements...
If I showed you a 2001 Titanium Powerbook. and the latest Macbook Pro, they will look rather similar
Go buy a bright purple Dell laptop then. Mac owner are the people who care about how well something functions, not how it looks.
An interesting aspect of this is that our solar system I think is in the part where the disc starts to bend, according to this diagram of where our solar system is in the galaxy...
It seems like it would be kind of irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but maybe for some reason in the places where the gas discs of a universe start to bend, life it more likely for some reason. Or course, with a sample size of one you can't really extrapolate much - just seems like an interesting coincidence.
If I'm wrong about the location I would love to know more exactly where we are.
I'm not sure they're pretending. I've met many in person, including a few fairly intelligent and well educated I really thought would know better.
I wonder how many more before you realize that actually most of the truly intelligent believe something you do not... and engage in introspection at that point.
That doesn't make sense, much the science is centered around the problem of feedback loops whereby although CO2 is clearly the cause of initial warming
That was the original theory, debunked by years of rather large CO2 increases without corresponding temperature increases that were supposed to have occurred.
The methane is more of a threat, but we'll see what actually happens. Not like the Earth has not had massive methane increases before, perhaps it dissipates in some way unanticipated since obviously we've not had greenhouse Earth in the past, just a warmer Earth.
Snow usually is melting during spring and early summe ... there is no snow left in late summer. Otherwise it is not "snow" but a glacier.
Again, you really need to visit the mountains. Again, you really need to realize that rivers all over the world are fed year-round by snow melt, just as they are in the U.S.
Snow remaining through the winter is not often a glacier, usually it is a snowfield. If a snowfield grows long enough it may eventually (say a thousand years+) become a glacier. In the meantime, again I say to you - go into the rockies in the summer, any time, you will see snow on the high peaks. I have hiked many 14k peaks and all of them have snow at the top at any time of year... partly because even rain will often fall around tall peaks as snow. Partly because it's simply a lot colder up there and even in summer temperatures are not all that high.
You will need what, four times as many charging stations as gas pumps?
I actually totally agree with this point and I've made it before myself in the past, in terms of the practicality of all cars being electric.
However here we are just looking at rapid charging stations to make interstate travel feasible without huge delays to charge, and the map of charging networks I listed would be added on top of Tesla's Supercharging locations, which is already pretty extensive. The only place I would be hesitant to go with an all electric car on a road trip would be deep into Utah or the Southwest (maybe the Southwest has gotten better).
So more degrees whatever is better?
No, a larger range is better for precision in describing temperature, especially between 70-90F
Because most things need a reference and thats it, or do people not need to know sea level either?
Most people's reference of temperature is experience, and there is a fine grain to experience in that range, To me there is a noticeable difference in feeling cold at 71 but not at 72, for example. There's also a point just after 83 when I consider it to feel hot... all of this moderated by humidity of course. The desirable temperatures will differ per person, so trying to have some kind of base reference vs. as accurate as possible a description of the temperature, is insanity.
You ever hear about planes or rockets or whatever going at mach x? Speed of sound.
You're kind of dumb if you confuse the needs of technical units with human-oriented units. But even there, C is still fundamentally flawed since they based it around when water boils or freezes - both of which change with pressure, so the very fundamentals of C are based on a lie they try to tell about what the numbers mean.
Why are you promoting a system based on lies?
Fail.
Because of widespread counterfeiting on Amazon there are some things I am very reluctant to buy anymore from Amazon, like cables... I would either buy them from NewEgg or directly from the manufacturer (I am really hoping NewEgg does not have a similar issue here).
I would think there would be a very real risk that Amazon sales would decline if people found they could not trust Amazon to deliver the real product they thought they were ordering. Given how widespread and accurate fashion fakes are getting, would anyone order a designer purse from Amazon? Or specific clothing brands?
So, they buy Flickr, then intentionally take away what they themselves say was attracting new users.
But for a site like Flickr, they do not benefit from a sheer volume of new users.
They want users who are more serious about photos, not just people there to backup random photo libraries.
I personally have got back into using Flickr more again in recent months, and I think the quality of photos has increased.
Somehow I don't think you can successfully monetize an internet platform by taking away people's reason for using it.
They didn't take away everyone's reason. Just the ones that were not as much into photography.
To me Flickr provides by far the best way to view photos - where I can see the photo really well, in as best a quality as possible - but at the same time also have quick access to see important EXIF data containing technical details about the photo. There's no-one that does this better than Flickr.
That seems like a good idea, although the full statement is there is nothing to be gained by YOU sending the username in plain text...
I still would be uncomfortable even with that though, because in theory someone could brute-force reverse the hash and then they would have both things.
That is a really excellent point, that they have normalized common wearing of face masks across Asia... I had totally forgotten about that! I just figured masks were right out but respiratory masks are very common as you say. That combined with a little non-obvious eye makeup and a bit of gait adjustment and you should be well-hidden.
It could just upload a hash of your password... but even so I would not want my username going up with even just a hash to anywhere but where I am logging in.
I didn't realize that "regular people" couldn't file bug/security reports with Apple
You kind of can via the Feedback forms.
Though for something this serious going through bugreport was a better idea, who knows how long it would have taken to be noticed going through Feedback...
why is fahrenheit better?
I already explained that to you, it allows more fidelity for temperatures people actually need to know exactly - weather.
assume most times people are referring to sea level at 20C
Why would anyone assume most people refer to sea level when most people do not live at sea level?
The speed of sound varies by altitude (air density) too, does that make it a worthless measurement ?
Did anyone base a unit of measurement around the speed of sound? That would equally be a mistake.
Snow melts as soon as it is long enough above 0C.
Go into any mountain range during the summer and you can plainly see some snow still remains. It takes all season to melt, snow does not just melt instantly at temps above 0C.
Seriously have you never been to any mountains ever??? Communities all around the world rely on exactly this behavior to get water year round (where do you think water in rivers flowing through the U.S. come from?????), without any glaciers adding water to the mix.
I guess the headline "Apple follows local laws" would not have been as sexy, eh?
The strings you see for the network are delivered by the carrier, not Apple. That's why it's also been showing up on some Android phones too.
(Thanks to AC for the link).
I saw that yesterday on Twitter and thought it was an especially impressive looking flame, so you should actually both to click on the link... the shape of the flame is really interesting.
The very story is about how they not only listen, but actually rewarded someone they didn't promise anything...
The fact that response was delayed is an issue yes, but within a week is still pretty good compared to many companies customer response - which is never...
It's not worthless at all. Water is the most abundant thing and everyone knows its reference.
Totally irrelevant how common water is, people do not need to understand exactly how warm water is, just that it is hot enough to boil.
P.S. even the boiling thing is a fail, because the temperature water boils at varies by altitude! So the one thing Celsius set out to do cleanly, it cannot even manage correctly. Most of the world lives in places where the boiling temperature of water is not 100C. Utter fail.
Who gives decimal points in temperature? No one, that who.
That is exactly my point. By having fewer whole numbers you cannot having the reporting fidelity for normal temperature ranges that F allows for. I personally do not like using a less precise measuring unit. You go right ahead and enjoy your inferior means of denoting air temperature, it's only twice as bad at doing so as you pointed out... But from the 100C fiasco we know you like shoddy measurement systems.
I think they'd be worried that all the water would arrive at one time instead of being conveniently stored in glaciers
You are the THIRD PERSON I've had to explain how snow works.
In any large mountain range, in the winter (and even late into spring or even summer) snow will fall. That snow slowly melts, releasing water all spring, summer and fall.
Since there will be greater evaporation, there will be more snow, therefore more water released year round by snow...
Glaciers are very stingy with producing water because ice melts much more slowly than snow. So wouldn't an increase in snowfall and therefore snow melt, make up for loss of glacier water?
Glaciers mean: a big deal of the water that comes freezes and is stored.
Guess what snow is!!
Glaciers mean: a continuous flow of water while they melt/move
Guess what snow does!
How dies an increase of snow not make up to some degree for glacial melt?
Now the trick is - how can you say if increased snowfall yields more or less water than glacial melt?
See? The issue is not as simple as you picture it.
Living by the mountains, I know what actually happens is that you get snow, that melts through the year releasing the water... if the glaciers go you get a flood when they released what they have behind the dam, which is bad. But that is short term, after that there is more snow because of the increased ocean evaporation, and thus to some degree makes up for lost glacial melt.
It may alter the pattern somewhat but not as dramatically as you seem to think.
It's because of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayas. Moist air flowing off the Indian Ocean gets pushed up into the atmosphere by the mountains, condenses, falls as snow, then melts as runoff to feed the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in China, and the Ganges, Indus, and Brahmaputra Rivers of the Indian subcontinent.
That's great, but we are talking about the glaciers, not the cycle you just mention.
That cycle would continue - and with higher average temperatures, that means greater water evaporation from the oceans, leading to more moisture falling in the mountains, thus more runoff for the rivers.
So why should those governments be concerned, when they will be getting more water - not less? That's the effect a warmer planet has, more resources and a wider growing range for agriculture (those glaciers all melting means that more plants can grow at higher altitudes than was the case previously).
To me I am sensing more than a little undercurrent of worry from governments at what happens when poorer regions of the earth suddenly have a surplus of output and are not as reliant on aid from the west... so they try and scare everyone.
Even the IPCC is targeting a 1.5C rise... Not 4C.