"I don't want a watch that duplicates the function of my cell phone or computer," adds the original submission"
Actually all watches duplicate smartphone functions, including the databank variants.
With this in mind, 2 recommendations
1. A classic automatic mechanical watch that is deeply engineered to nerdist level of detail, and a bit of a cult item amongst watch lovers: a Damasko DA36 or one of its DA3x siblings.
Why? Because it has a difficult to scratch ice hardened case, an antimagnetic inner case for when nerds work on the large hadron collider, a special lubrication cell around the crown stem, a crown that decouples when screwing down, special high quality gaskets and more. The white dial siblings are fully lumed. A universal, crisp looking watch with appeal to nerds and engineers.
2. On the other side of the spectrum I find the Apple watch quite compelling and nerd-friendly. Current gen has gps, is swim proof, will actually make you look less at your phone, and it is simply a very very accurate watch. Notice how a shop display of radiosynced watches will in the afternoon have 2 seconds difference between the slowest and quickest sample while a table of apple watches run all in perfect sync. The secret is that even when it cannot sync to internet or gps, it has a thermocontrolled crystal which makes it into a higher accuracy device than a standard quartz watch, it is probably the most affordable high accuracy quartz watch on the market. This is something that I think should appeal to nerds.
I hear you re: the dongles. You need to carry a dead octopus worth of cables and dongles with the current MBP. But! I do love the touch bar. I played around with it in the Apple store and found it rather wonderful and userfriendly. I think you can set it to boring standard F keys, but the context sensitive touchbar really makes a number of operations more efficient, for example scrolling through photos.
I find it surprising that according to this statistic one third of Mac users stopped using Macs during the last 8 months. Or did the market grow a lot (don't think so)?
I can see that some Mac users would switch to Windows (or occasionally to Linux), but one third in 8 months? Seems actually unlikely.
These are ambitious plans (esp bringing samples BACK from Mars) showing the commitment to become a premier space industry country. I think China will do everything to make it happen. Living now in Hong Kong and often visiting mainland china for business, I think they will succeed - the general engineering quality AND available quantity is high.
The one thing that is a bit a pity, and I realise it sounds naieve and wishful, I expect for humanity to be truly succesful in space exploration and possibly having otherworld bases, we would really need a maximum of international cooperation, which would include the Chinese.
Some were mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
- Keep NAS and as much other gear as possible in the main building.
- Abloy -a finnish brand- locks are difficult to tamper with, but of course everything should be strong
- heating for winter if required. Perhaps a portable dehumidifier (leave in main building when not needed), all depending on your climate.
- work on a laptop which you can take back to main building, if this has enough processing power. Otherwise something bolted to the office building. But in any case, have data storage in main building
- small, quiet fridge for refreshments. And/or a coffee machine. Though it is ok as well to stretch your legs and get these from main building every few hours.
- mind the location of the windows vs the sun (was mentioned already).
- put your laptop or monitor high enough so you look at the screen straight on, less tiring for the back and neck. With a laptop this means using a separate keyboard. Way back I put my 17" laptop on a stand for this reason, much more comfortable
- a good comfy office chair is important.
- don't put a lock on any paperwork cabinets inside. Your paperwork won't interest thieves unless you do military secret work, they will just damage the cabinets trying to find something valuable for reselling.
- if you like working with music (I personally prefer silence), then this is a good opportunity to use some small semi-pro studio monitors, such as the KRK Rokit series - still affordable and waaay better than multimedia speakers.
During a keynote Cook showed a slide listing the top revenue generating watch companies - this was based on a table that was published elsewhere.
Cook then showed the total revenue generated by the Apple watch (his was v1) being 2nd only to Rolex, which sells between 500K and 1 Million luxury watches per year.
Well, haters say the Apple Watch is a flop. I don't know, I think I wouldn't mind flopping with that level of revenue...
here is a link with picture of the slide: http://www.wareable.com/apple/...
>> Is this even a choice?
Well, yes. I am a happy iphone user. By and large they work well and reliably long so, and when eventually compelled to upgrade the phone was still good enough to give to a family member. I find them easier to use than Android, which may be a matter of habit. I don't particularly care about it being open source, and I have not found the walled garden a limit. The walls are far away for my usage, and the apps tend to do what is on the lid.
What I especially like (cue to sn1ggering comments of offering my ass to Tim, etc etc) is how well it all works together with my macbook, ipad and apple tv: icloud syncing of photos and music everywhere, documents available immediately on my mac, iphone and ipad, even simply the notepad being synced everywhere is wonderful. yes, you can do all that with other approaches like dropbox etc, however I like how I don't even have to think about it at all.
I like his humble, collaborative attitude, befitting a true scientist.
I expect that, in practice getting there in a repeatable way will be the result of various international cooperations where different organisations will bring their own skills. Empahy and dialogue can only accelerate the process.
I guess I am an "and" person, not an "or" person.
It would be great and satisfying to be able to spend good time learning this tech in depth. But my priority is my my family, that is the main source of my happiness.
Not blaming anything.
No one indeed forced me to have kids, but it was something -let's call it D1- that we found very important, more important than my other personal interests.
Also having your own house paid off is actually a good element to keep poverty at bay when old
So, not blaming anything, not even unhappy with my job, and my own family priorities are more important. ML is a personal interest that I hope to develop.
Wow! Thanks so much for your friendly and ultra helpful reply. This will really help getting me started.
There is so much cynisim here on/. - it is wonderful to read your very informative reply.
Thanks again !
With the advances in machine learning and the easy availability of tools like this, it would be so very satisfying to put serious time and energy in studying these interesting topics.
However, like probably several others here, with a mortgage and in my case twin kids coming, it is near impossible to break away from the day job...
Quite simply, the tool finds details of my past trips as well in my emails and I could use that to trigger the download of info about a previous destination.
I do a lot of trips and just tried it for a past trip for which the app found details in my emails.
It also found suggested trip details (not etickets) so don't blindly accept its suggestions.
Anyway first impressions are good, lots of info in a personalised travel guide. And this is only a v1. Cool.
What I was thinking, in the off chance that this is an advanced alien civ, like 10000 years more advanced than us or more, then that indirectly would confirm that despite our SF stories, faster than light travel may indeed be impossible if such an advanced civ wasn't able to crack it - otherwise they would have simply visited.
Yes, it is a kind of geocaching, and indeed paper books are soooo pre-21st century, but I do find it a rather charming idea, a fun way to exchange reading pleasure of favourite books and I expect tangentially also to push people to read more.
A nice idea, no need for the typical slashcynism...
It is not because there is not a breakthrough product launched every 2 years that they have lost their way.
For example, I still expect a lot of future generations of the Apple Watch (consider also how the phone evolved). Esp. because they have been hiring clever/phd level people with experience in sensors like blood glucose, blood oxygen and whatnot. Once they crack the nut of making that reliable for a large audience and once they pass health device regulatory certification, that will truly become a breakthrough product, since everyone wants to be healthy. Health is an enormous and far too costly business, Apple could be disruptive there.
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And your point is?
"I don't want a watch that duplicates the function of my cell phone or computer," adds the original submission"
Actually all watches duplicate smartphone functions, including the databank variants.
With this in mind, 2 recommendations
1. A classic automatic mechanical watch that is deeply engineered to nerdist level of detail, and a bit of a cult item amongst watch lovers: a Damasko DA36 or one of its DA3x siblings.
Why? Because it has a difficult to scratch ice hardened case, an antimagnetic inner case for when nerds work on the large hadron collider, a special lubrication cell around the crown stem, a crown that decouples when screwing down, special high quality gaskets and more. The white dial siblings are fully lumed. A universal, crisp looking watch with appeal to nerds and engineers.
2. On the other side of the spectrum I find the Apple watch quite compelling and nerd-friendly. Current gen has gps, is swim proof, will actually make you look less at your phone, and it is simply a very very accurate watch. Notice how a shop display of radiosynced watches will in the afternoon have 2 seconds difference between the slowest and quickest sample while a table of apple watches run all in perfect sync. The secret is that even when it cannot sync to internet or gps, it has a thermocontrolled crystal which makes it into a higher accuracy device than a standard quartz watch, it is probably the most affordable high accuracy quartz watch on the market. This is something that I think should appeal to nerds.
I experimented with the touch bar in an Apple store and loved it immediately, it is truly an improvement. I don't quite get the hate against it here.
I hear you re: the dongles. You need to carry a dead octopus worth of cables and dongles with the current MBP.
But!
I do love the touch bar.
I played around with it in the Apple store and found it rather wonderful and userfriendly. I think you can set it to boring standard F keys, but the context sensitive touchbar really makes a number of operations more efficient, for example scrolling through photos.
I find it surprising that according to this statistic one third of Mac users stopped using Macs during the last 8 months. Or did the market grow a lot (don't think so)? I can see that some Mac users would switch to Windows (or occasionally to Linux), but one third in 8 months? Seems actually unlikely.
These are ambitious plans (esp bringing samples BACK from Mars) showing the commitment to become a premier space industry country. I think China will do everything to make it happen. Living now in Hong Kong and often visiting mainland china for business, I think they will succeed - the general engineering quality AND available quantity is high.
The one thing that is a bit a pity, and I realise it sounds naieve and wishful, I expect for humanity to be truly succesful in space exploration and possibly having otherworld bases, we would really need a maximum of international cooperation, which would include the Chinese.
You can always use Spotify for free legally to see if you like the music and then buy the album to get rid of the advertisements.
If I were you, I would focus on the market that will give you most revenue. I think that it still is IOS.
Have a look here: small office in a container (many similar options exist):
http://www.hiloft.de/
Some were mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
- Keep NAS and as much other gear as possible in the main building.
- Abloy -a finnish brand- locks are difficult to tamper with, but of course everything should be strong
- heating for winter if required. Perhaps a portable dehumidifier (leave in main building when not needed), all depending on your climate.
- work on a laptop which you can take back to main building, if this has enough processing power. Otherwise something bolted to the office building. But in any case, have data storage in main building
- small, quiet fridge for refreshments. And/or a coffee machine. Though it is ok as well to stretch your legs and get these from main building every few hours.
- mind the location of the windows vs the sun (was mentioned already).
- put your laptop or monitor high enough so you look at the screen straight on, less tiring for the back and neck. With a laptop this means using a separate keyboard. Way back I put my 17" laptop on a stand for this reason, much more comfortable
- a good comfy office chair is important.
- don't put a lock on any paperwork cabinets inside. Your paperwork won't interest thieves unless you do military secret work, they will just damage the cabinets trying to find something valuable for reselling.
- if you like working with music (I personally prefer silence), then this is a good opportunity to use some small semi-pro studio monitors, such as the KRK Rokit series - still affordable and waaay better than multimedia speakers.
During a keynote Cook showed a slide listing the top revenue generating watch companies - this was based on a table that was published elsewhere.
Cook then showed the total revenue generated by the Apple watch (his was v1) being 2nd only to Rolex, which sells between 500K and 1 Million luxury watches per year.
Well, haters say the Apple Watch is a flop. I don't know, I think I wouldn't mind flopping with that level of revenue...
here is a link with picture of the slide:
http://www.wareable.com/apple/...
>> Is this even a choice?
Well, yes. I am a happy iphone user. By and large they work well and reliably long so, and when eventually compelled to upgrade the phone was still good enough to give to a family member. I find them easier to use than Android, which may be a matter of habit. I don't particularly care about it being open source, and I have not found the walled garden a limit. The walls are far away for my usage, and the apps tend to do what is on the lid.
What I especially like (cue to sn1ggering comments of offering my ass to Tim, etc etc) is how well it all works together with my macbook, ipad and apple tv: icloud syncing of photos and music everywhere, documents available immediately on my mac, iphone and ipad, even simply the notepad being synced everywhere is wonderful. yes, you can do all that with other approaches like dropbox etc, however I like how I don't even have to think about it at all.
I like his humble, collaborative attitude, befitting a true scientist. I expect that, in practice getting there in a repeatable way will be the result of various international cooperations where different organisations will bring their own skills. Empahy and dialogue can only accelerate the process.
The photo gallery makes it look like a clever modular design, curious how it will work in reality.
I guess I am an "and" person, not an "or" person. It would be great and satisfying to be able to spend good time learning this tech in depth. But my priority is my my family, that is the main source of my happiness.
Not blaming anything.
No one indeed forced me to have kids, but it was something -let's call it D1- that we found very important, more important than my other personal interests.
Also having your own house paid off is actually a good element to keep poverty at bay when old
So, not blaming anything, not even unhappy with my job, and my own family priorities are more important. ML is a personal interest that I hope to develop.
Wow! Thanks so much for your friendly and ultra helpful reply. This will really help getting me started. There is so much cynisim here on /. - it is wonderful to read your very informative reply.
Thanks again !
With the advances in machine learning and the easy availability of tools like this, it would be so very satisfying to put serious time and energy in studying these interesting topics. However, like probably several others here, with a mortgage and in my case twin kids coming, it is near impossible to break away from the day job...
Actually I use gmail privately, so in any case my mails are already there.
Quite simply, the tool finds details of my past trips as well in my emails and I could use that to trigger the download of info about a previous destination.
I do a lot of trips and just tried it for a past trip for which the app found details in my emails. It also found suggested trip details (not etickets) so don't blindly accept its suggestions. Anyway first impressions are good, lots of info in a personalised travel guide. And this is only a v1. Cool.
Indeed, imagine a raspberry pi with this processor.
What I was thinking, in the off chance that this is an advanced alien civ, like 10000 years more advanced than us or more, then that indirectly would confirm that despite our SF stories, faster than light travel may indeed be impossible if such an advanced civ wasn't able to crack it - otherwise they would have simply visited.
Yes, it is a kind of geocaching, and indeed paper books are soooo pre-21st century, but I do find it a rather charming idea, a fun way to exchange reading pleasure of favourite books and I expect tangentially also to push people to read more.
A nice idea, no need for the typical slashcynism...
It is not because there is not a breakthrough product launched every 2 years that they have lost their way.
For example, I still expect a lot of future generations of the Apple Watch (consider also how the phone evolved). Esp. because they have been hiring clever/phd level people with experience in sensors like blood glucose, blood oxygen and whatnot. Once they crack the nut of making that reliable for a large audience and once they pass health device regulatory certification, that will truly become a breakthrough product, since everyone wants to be healthy. Health is an enormous and far too costly business, Apple could be disruptive there.