I always found the G4 Cube a pretty machine.
In fact a while ago I was thinking: wouldn t it be fun to find a cheap broken one, strip the internals and put a raspberry pi with power supply and little audio system in it.
Did anyone here try that?
The network might be bulletproof, and from what I know it is well engineered, but if the a bank at the edge of the network has sloppy security practices, then conceivably fraudulent transactions can happen.
With an analogy, If you write your paypal password on a post it note, and someone misuses it to do a payment, is paypal at fault?
I am blessed with young twin babies, they are not identical - boy and girl, so they should be different enough for the system. But in general even if they were identical, I would expect that most twins aren't split between good and evil, meaning in practice it wouldn t be an issue for each of them to use faceid on their own phone. It is a matter of trust if you mind that your twin cannot unlock your phone.
Similarly my wife and I use touchid and we also know the passcode of each other's phone, sometimes it is usful to be able to unlock the other phone.
It is like saying that Caesar's cypher and PKI accomplish the same thing.
You don't have to be a fanboi to appreciate the engineering of FaceID.
Anyway we may discuss yet I bet that in 3 years all phones > $150 will have a similar or perhaps even better solution.
It is a lot more complex than a basic 2d photo recognition. They had face recognition since many years in iphoto, do you really think it would have been that hard for the engineers to transplant this feature simply for the phone? Instead they did serious engineering with the 3d map, secure enclave and all. This is not trivial and I am not surprised it took years to get it right. But hey, any naive argument to diminish a company's success goes i guess?
Exactly. Apple had face recognition in iphoto since several years, they could easily have adapted it quickly for use in a phone, but what they did required serious engineering. Saying that X had the feature earlier is naive. Comparing Apples to, well, Koreans.
Never mind the detail that the iPhone X facial recognition is a LOT more complex than to my knowledge any other customer level gadget out there. Apple was rarely the first in anything, but we have to respect that by and large they thoroughly engineer a feature before releasing it.
I bought the new iPad Pro 10â a while ago and just installed ios11.
It is a great improvement - now it is finally easy to drag and drop between apps.
For lighter computer users it may be an acceptable single computer.
So what is the frustration - I didnâ(TM)t expect that I had such a large number of 32 bit apps that donâ(TM)t work anymore. Hope that enough of them will still be upgraded.
This was overshadowed by the FaceID news: an interesting addition are specific lighting options for portrait photos. Curious how well it will work in real life.
This is an interesting remark. I am about to start reading the trilogy because I wanted to wait until the 3 books were published. Since it won important genre awards, I do expect that many people find it readable. Now I did enjoy some of Liu's shorter work and the Chinese cultural background indeed made for a somewhat different reading experience than SF stories written by western genre practioners - something I personally find interesting rather than offputting.
Authorware was an interesting multimedia development tool by Macromedia, after the company was sold to Adobe it eventually was discontinued. It had a flowchart metaphor that allowed non-technical people to produce decent e-learning modules, including animations etc. In addition it had an interesting scripting language to create more powerful routines. I always thought that the program could have a future if maintained and expanded towards web based learning output etc (back then you could technically run it with a plug in, which nowadays would't be done anymore). It was quite a cool tool.
Such small minded reactions. Is it that inconceivable that The Obelisk Gate might simply be a very good book?
Usually i don't care much for fantasy yet I was impressed by predecessor The Fifth Season. Very well written, interesting and original. The Obelisk Gate was a well constructed bridge novel towards the soon to appear final volume. It doesn't make sense to read it on its own, it does expand on the first book.
I read 2 other books on the shortlist which were good too. From the 3, All the birds in the sky was my own favourite, but I have no objection against The Obelisk Gate, it is a very well crafted book.
Like many off I started off with a classic ipod, then a touch, and for years I listened to music on my iphone.
Now the iphone sounds ok for music but there is room for improvement.
A few months ago I succumbed to the temptation of buying and end of production Pioneer high res music player (XDP-100R if you want to google it) for a good price at Amazon. It is in essence a standard Android device without a phone module but with a proper audio circuit instead. I have to say it sounds awesome on better headphones. It is noticeably better than the iphone's audio circuits (and most other smartphones I think) for music playback.
The flipside of the coin is the annoyance of bringing 2 devices but it is a lot of enjoyment for music lovers.
FYI there is an interesting affordable high res audio player now on Kickstarter. If I didn't have the Pioneer yet I might have backed it.
The disadvantage - well in use it is largely ok but in comparison the user interface of the original ipod was just brilliant. It only did music playing and did it beautifully simply.
There were a few other interesting tidbits learned from the earnings call:
- after a long decline, ipad sales were significantly up at 15%, expected to rise more since the new ones were launched in june. Having replaced my early pleiocene ipad 2 with the new pro 10.5, I think that many will agree that it is an excellent tablet.
- Mac sales were up too
And more interestingly, looking at the future:
- Cook expects great success with ARKit.
- Cook informed that they have a big project ongoing in autonomous systems .
FYI I currently live in HK.
Taxes are very high on new cars, at least 40%. The government previously wanted to boost electrical vehicles and thus gave the tax break for EVs.
In fact EVs are ideal for HK. Never a range problem, and people in general are very positive about there being no emissions.
Personally I think it is a pity that they stopped this tax break, it gave a great signal to the community. They could have reduced the tax to 20%, still a difference. Eventually Tesla and otther EV sales will pickup again of course but HK could have been at the spearhead of the move to zero emission cars countries.
Like many people I have been plagued with some devices going belly up suspiciously close after the warranty period expiry
So I am all for a right to repair, but a design for easier maintenance may be difficult to enforce because it can go against other aims of the product.
For example, lots of functionality could be in a set of custom surface mounted chips. There is nothing wrong with smds and they can make designs more compact (usually desirable), but they sure are difficult to troubleshoot and replace if you're a 3rd party. Similarly some products are desirable for the public precisely because they are super slender (macbook air and their clones, various smartphones, tablets...). Easy repair goes against the desire of slimness. I read that recent Surface tablets are literally glued shut, which is obviously bad and should be forbidden going forward, but otherwise how far should this legislation go?
Bought it last weekend as a replacement of my fossilised ipad 2
Use case will mainly be typical tablet use, also for watching a movie while cycling in the gym. And on holidays I plan to be editing/finetuning my dslr pictures and possibly videos of the day on it. A glass of beer or wine while editing photos, yes that is holiday to me.
First impression is good actually. It won't replace my macbook but many daily activities work well on it. The screen is absolutely wonderful, the high refresh rate is noticeably smoother and the colours are great. It is obviously very quick on today's apps. The general use while the ipad is mounted standing on the keyboard cover is not ideal. I find the touch screen more ergonomic if it is lying flat.
I liked my prehistoric ipad 2 a lot, great when relaxing in the sofa, on trips for browsing and light photo editing and presenting, a colleague and I even used ours in 1-1 customer meetings - it was a more relaxed kind of presentation / demo than using a laptop. Unfortunately one of the last system updates it could handle made it terribly slow, it was since relegated to being an oversized wake up alarm.
I had thought of buying a kindle fire hd8, maInly to save money, but this new 10" ipad pro looks excellent, and it is of course well integrated with my other apple devices and software.
No cynical hate from me - I bet a few will call me gay now etc etc, I do think that it seems like a very well engineered tablet. I get that between ios and android, they are both great and different rather than one is better than the other.
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I always found the G4 Cube a pretty machine. In fact a while ago I was thinking: wouldn t it be fun to find a cheap broken one, strip the internals and put a raspberry pi with power supply and little audio system in it. Did anyone here try that?
The network might be bulletproof, and from what I know it is well engineered, but if the a bank at the edge of the network has sloppy security practices, then conceivably fraudulent transactions can happen. With an analogy, If you write your paypal password on a post it note, and someone misuses it to do a payment, is paypal at fault?
Chill. It looks like a bug that will likely be fixed in the next os patch.
If we look at proportions, with China having 3.5-4 times the USA population, they are not doing that badly.
I am blessed with young twin babies, they are not identical - boy and girl, so they should be different enough for the system. But in general even if they were identical, I would expect that most twins aren't split between good and evil, meaning in practice it wouldn t be an issue for each of them to use faceid on their own phone. It is a matter of trust if you mind that your twin cannot unlock your phone.
Similarly my wife and I use touchid and we also know the passcode of each other's phone, sometimes it is usful to be able to unlock the other phone.
Plenty of iPhone cases without a back window for the logo. In fact I am using one now.
It is like saying that Caesar's cypher and PKI accomplish the same thing. You don't have to be a fanboi to appreciate the engineering of FaceID. Anyway we may discuss yet I bet that in 3 years all phones > $150 will have a similar or perhaps even better solution.
It is a lot more complex than a basic 2d photo recognition. They had face recognition since many years in iphoto, do you really think it would have been that hard for the engineers to transplant this feature simply for the phone? Instead they did serious engineering with the 3d map, secure enclave and all. This is not trivial and I am not surprised it took years to get it right. But hey, any naive argument to diminish a company's success goes i guess?
Exactly. Apple had face recognition in iphoto since several years, they could easily have adapted it quickly for use in a phone, but what they did required serious engineering. Saying that X had the feature earlier is naive. Comparing Apples to, well, Koreans.
Never mind the detail that the iPhone X facial recognition is a LOT more complex than to my knowledge any other customer level gadget out there. Apple was rarely the first in anything, but we have to respect that by and large they thoroughly engineer a feature before releasing it.
I bought the new iPad Pro 10â a while ago and just installed ios11. It is a great improvement - now it is finally easy to drag and drop between apps. For lighter computer users it may be an acceptable single computer.
So what is the frustration - I didnâ(TM)t expect that I had such a large number of 32 bit apps that donâ(TM)t work anymore. Hope that enough of them will still be upgraded.
This was overshadowed by the FaceID news: an interesting addition are specific lighting options for portrait photos. Curious how well it will work in real life.
This is an interesting remark. I am about to start reading the trilogy because I wanted to wait until the 3 books were published. Since it won important genre awards, I do expect that many people find it readable. Now I did enjoy some of Liu's shorter work and the Chinese cultural background indeed made for a somewhat different reading experience than SF stories written by western genre practioners - something I personally find interesting rather than offputting.
Authorware was an interesting multimedia development tool by Macromedia, after the company was sold to Adobe it eventually was discontinued. It had a flowchart metaphor that allowed non-technical people to produce decent e-learning modules, including animations etc. In addition it had an interesting scripting language to create more powerful routines. I always thought that the program could have a future if maintained and expanded towards web based learning output etc (back then you could technically run it with a plug in, which nowadays would't be done anymore). It was quite a cool tool.
There is a gui option that makes Gimp rather photoshopish, it's quite ok.
Such small minded reactions. Is it that inconceivable that The Obelisk Gate might simply be a very good book?
Usually i don't care much for fantasy yet I was impressed by predecessor The Fifth Season. Very well written, interesting and original. The Obelisk Gate was a well constructed bridge novel towards the soon to appear final volume. It doesn't make sense to read it on its own, it does expand on the first book.
I read 2 other books on the shortlist which were good too. From the 3, All the birds in the sky was my own favourite, but I have no objection against The Obelisk Gate, it is a very well crafted book.
Like many off I started off with a classic ipod, then a touch, and for years I listened to music on my iphone.
Now the iphone sounds ok for music but there is room for improvement.
A few months ago I succumbed to the temptation of buying and end of production Pioneer high res music player (XDP-100R if you want to google it) for a good price at Amazon. It is in essence a standard Android device without a phone module but with a proper audio circuit instead. I have to say it sounds awesome on better headphones. It is noticeably better than the iphone's audio circuits (and most other smartphones I think) for music playback.
The flipside of the coin is the annoyance of bringing 2 devices but it is a lot of enjoyment for music lovers.
FYI there is an interesting affordable high res audio player now on Kickstarter. If I didn't have the Pioneer yet I might have backed it.
The disadvantage - well in use it is largely ok but in comparison the user interface of the original ipod was just brilliant. It only did music playing and did it beautifully simply.
Please point to cheaper ipad pro prices then.
There were a few other interesting tidbits learned from the earnings call:
- after a long decline, ipad sales were significantly up at 15%, expected to rise more since the new ones were launched in june. Having replaced my early pleiocene ipad 2 with the new pro 10.5, I think that many will agree that it is an excellent tablet.
- Mac sales were up too
And more interestingly, looking at the future:
- Cook expects great success with ARKit.
- Cook informed that they have a big project ongoing in autonomous systems .
We have become a sad population if we reproach people having 3 kids.
FYI I currently live in HK.
Taxes are very high on new cars, at least 40%. The government previously wanted to boost electrical vehicles and thus gave the tax break for EVs.
In fact EVs are ideal for HK. Never a range problem, and people in general are very positive about there being no emissions.
Personally I think it is a pity that they stopped this tax break, it gave a great signal to the community. They could have reduced the tax to 20%, still a difference. Eventually Tesla and otther EV sales will pickup again of course but HK could have been at the spearhead of the move to zero emission cars countries.
Like many people I have been plagued with some devices going belly up suspiciously close after the warranty period expiry
So I am all for a right to repair, but a design for easier maintenance may be difficult to enforce because it can go against other aims of the product.
For example, lots of functionality could be in a set of custom surface mounted chips. There is nothing wrong with smds and they can make designs more compact (usually desirable), but they sure are difficult to troubleshoot and replace if you're a 3rd party. Similarly some products are desirable for the public precisely because they are super slender (macbook air and their clones, various smartphones, tablets...). Easy repair goes against the desire of slimness. I read that recent Surface tablets are literally glued shut, which is obviously bad and should be forbidden going forward, but otherwise how far should this legislation go?
Regarding photo editing, Affinity is promising - worth checking out.
Bought it last weekend as a replacement of my fossilised ipad 2
Use case will mainly be typical tablet use, also for watching a movie while cycling in the gym. And on holidays I plan to be editing/finetuning my dslr pictures and possibly videos of the day on it. A glass of beer or wine while editing photos, yes that is holiday to me.
First impression is good actually. It won't replace my macbook but many daily activities work well on it. The screen is absolutely wonderful, the high refresh rate is noticeably smoother and the colours are great. It is obviously very quick on today's apps. The general use while the ipad is mounted standing on the keyboard cover is not ideal. I find the touch screen more ergonomic if it is lying flat.
I liked my prehistoric ipad 2 a lot, great when relaxing in the sofa, on trips for browsing and light photo editing and presenting, a colleague and I even used ours in 1-1 customer meetings - it was a more relaxed kind of presentation / demo than using a laptop. Unfortunately one of the last system updates it could handle made it terribly slow, it was since relegated to being an oversized wake up alarm.
I had thought of buying a kindle fire hd8, maInly to save money, but this new 10" ipad pro looks excellent, and it is of course well integrated with my other apple devices and software.
No cynical hate from me - I bet a few will call me gay now etc etc, I do think that it seems like a very well engineered tablet. I get that between ios and android, they are both great and different rather than one is better than the other.