I wouldn't put pet photos in the same category as pet massages. I have dogs - I like looking at and showing people pictures of my dogs (mostly to other dog owners). I wouldn't dream of getting them a pet massage, but I'd be quite happy to quickly sort through pictures of my two different labradors and my half-a-beagle.
As a long-time Apple user who fled from Unity in horror - no, it most definitely was not the Apple philosophy on Unix. I'm not sure where people keep getting the "knows better" thing from the Mac. It's designed to abstract technical complexity, not "know better". If you ask it to do a thing, it still does it. And should you choose (I do), you can drop down into the command line and play.
The future is turning out much more like Brave New World than 1984 or Shape of Things To Come. Both have their parts to add, but Brave New World is the one that's more or less nailed it. People are choosing to do this to themselves, not being forced to.
I never really understand posts like this. "This is the one thing that would have kept me on Java". Why? Java is a tool like any other. You use it when you should, you don't use it when you shouldn't. After decades of existing, it's quite clear it doesn't actually need the Valhalla stuff. It would be nicer with it, but this is not an existential crisis.
Well, as a British guy with twenty years of currencies experience I'd like to ask the same question. Never once seen Sterling referred to as BP before - GBP is the term, or Sterling, or Pound Sterling. British Pounds? The phrase just doesn't get used.
Just out of interest - who is desperate to learn this stuff on the go? "How your credit score measures up to others in your area" - why on earth would I need to ever know?
Just read this - see, this is what I'm talking about. I couldn't care less if Apple is number 1, 7, 346 or 65535. So long as it works for me and is likely not to go bankrupt, that's fine. Whereas you appear to be very heavily invested in hating a company that you likely don't use. Why? What benefit does that give you?
Just before a new release and in the dying days of Apple's current flagship model, some article pops up saying that they've been overtaken and their sales are dropping/tech being eclipsed by some new phone/are the cause of impending thermonuclear war.
Compare like for like across the sales cycle. As the summary says, look again in about October'ish or whenever the new phones from Apple are available for purchase. That is - if you actually care about such things as which global position your phone manufacturer has.
That's an interesting comment which I'd not really thought of. The classic Doctor Who was broadcast weekly, on Saturday evenings. The extra talking there is now the kind of thing you often see with "Previously on..." pre-credit stuff. It's to remind your audience what's happening and keep them with you.
Agreed, doesn't translate well to binge-watching at all. Leads to an interesting question - will we start to see new programmes which are structured specifically for binge-watching?
Impressive stuff - huge web printers where if you turned them off it could be quarter of a mile of paper before the printer stopped spinning. I wrote some software for them too - automatic pagination for their advertiser's manual. Was a time I could quote you the Pantone numbers of every shade used, and the fonts and font sizes too.
It was decades ago I worked there and this was a big contract for that firm - hopefully they've diversified enough now to survive.
Mr Harford, like myself, is British. Britain is an old country, and we live in cities built in some cases several hundred years ago - in same cases with the same buildings still there. Not unique to Britain obviously, am simply using this as an example he should be familiar with.
We still use roads built with gauges governed by ancient carriages. London streets still wend and wind because many were simply not designed for motorised traffic, yet we still use them.
It's not at all a stretch of the imagination to consider that cities a hundred years from now will be built on the recognisable and still in use bits that we see today.
Yes - you can get these kind of controllers to control any AU/VST. The Novation in particular wraps the AU/VST using something called Automap, but more common approaches are to implement something like "MIDI learn" on the virtual instrument, then turning whatever dial on the control surface.
You know - I have a Novation SL Mk 2 and a Behringer BCF2000, and I still find myself reverting to mouse control. I just found the other way too imprecise and difficult to replicate consistently.
Plus there's the annoyance with automap when it comes to the Novation, but that's a specific issue with their design choice and not about the input method per se.
Yes I do, because there's a generation that grew up now using virtual. I've never used the original analogue stuff and trying to work it all out on a computer screen just feels very....anachronistic to me.
I understand you're point when it's an emulation of original hardware, but people are still making new, entirely digital instruments like this as well. It really irritates.
Apart from, you know, the last 40 years that is. Even in the dark days they still had ideas - the Newton for instance, which yeah Jobs didn't like and blah blah blah, but he was one of the few that didn't.
What Jobs did really well is sell, yes. But he also brought other qualities - a consistent product line was one of them. This is where things like the 4k TV are well over due, and also where legitimate criticisms like the no-USB C-cable-in-an-iPhone-box come from. Apple's entire with phones, tablets, computers etc. can do 4k. The one place I might show the family those photos can't. That's ridiculous, and this incremental upgrade is overdue.
Bear in mind though that Apple aren't hyping it, in fact they haven't even mentioned it. Others have looked in firmware and found what seems to be a sensible upgrade and have publicised that they've found it - that's all. For me as owner of a gen 3, it's interesting. World changing no, but yeah - it's something I'm following. If they launch that and the rumoured Prime app comes out, then that's finally all my media (iTunes/Netflix/Prime/self-ripped so Plex or similar) in one place so I'd likely buy.
I think they might have identified him explicitly, but I don't think it's too far of a stretch to have an article about the musician from Portal - Still Alive (This Was A Triumph); Now I Only Want You Gone - plus a few other geek-known tracks here and there. Agree they should have given a quick lead-in on background though.
An extremely good, and free, e-book on climate change recommended this solution in 2008. The author, David MacKay, was the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (UK).
It attempts a quantative approach to determining whether particular alternative sources of energy are useful and sustainable or not. It's a short read, politics free (neither "bah, it's all a hoax!" nor "do this immediately or DIE!") and is definitely worth the time of anyone interested in the subject.
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I wouldn't put pet photos in the same category as pet massages. I have dogs - I like looking at and showing people pictures of my dogs (mostly to other dog owners). I wouldn't dream of getting them a pet massage, but I'd be quite happy to quickly sort through pictures of my two different labradors and my half-a-beagle.
As a long-time Apple user who fled from Unity in horror - no, it most definitely was not the Apple philosophy on Unix. I'm not sure where people keep getting the "knows better" thing from the Mac. It's designed to abstract technical complexity, not "know better". If you ask it to do a thing, it still does it. And should you choose (I do), you can drop down into the command line and play.
The future is turning out much more like Brave New World than 1984 or Shape of Things To Come. Both have their parts to add, but Brave New World is the one that's more or less nailed it. People are choosing to do this to themselves, not being forced to.
Why? No-one's forcing anyone to buy an iPhone. Buy an Android phone instead if that's what you'd like.
I never really understand posts like this. "This is the one thing that would have kept me on Java". Why? Java is a tool like any other. You use it when you should, you don't use it when you shouldn't. After decades of existing, it's quite clear it doesn't actually need the Valhalla stuff. It would be nicer with it, but this is not an existential crisis.
Well, as a British guy with twenty years of currencies experience I'd like to ask the same question. Never once seen Sterling referred to as BP before - GBP is the term, or Sterling, or Pound Sterling. British Pounds? The phrase just doesn't get used.
They said this before when Safari introduced Reader mode. Somehow the advertisers survived anyway. Next...
Just out of interest - who is desperate to learn this stuff on the go? "How your credit score measures up to others in your area" - why on earth would I need to ever know?
Just read this - see, this is what I'm talking about. I couldn't care less if Apple is number 1, 7, 346 or 65535. So long as it works for me and is likely not to go bankrupt, that's fine. Whereas you appear to be very heavily invested in hating a company that you likely don't use. Why? What benefit does that give you?
Just before a new release and in the dying days of Apple's current flagship model, some article pops up saying that they've been overtaken and their sales are dropping/tech being eclipsed by some new phone/are the cause of impending thermonuclear war.
Compare like for like across the sales cycle. As the summary says, look again in about October'ish or whenever the new phones from Apple are available for purchase. That is - if you actually care about such things as which global position your phone manufacturer has.
That's an interesting comment which I'd not really thought of. The classic Doctor Who was broadcast weekly, on Saturday evenings. The extra talking there is now the kind of thing you often see with "Previously on ..." pre-credit stuff. It's to remind your audience what's happening and keep them with you.
Agreed, doesn't translate well to binge-watching at all. Leads to an interesting question - will we start to see new programmes which are structured specifically for binge-watching?
Impressive stuff - huge web printers where if you turned them off it could be quarter of a mile of paper before the printer stopped spinning. I wrote some software for them too - automatic pagination for their advertiser's manual. Was a time I could quote you the Pantone numbers of every shade used, and the fonts and font sizes too.
It was decades ago I worked there and this was a big contract for that firm - hopefully they've diversified enough now to survive.
It perfectly understands "navigate to". I use that near daily.
Mr Harford, like myself, is British. Britain is an old country, and we live in cities built in some cases several hundred years ago - in same cases with the same buildings still there. Not unique to Britain obviously, am simply using this as an example he should be familiar with.
We still use roads built with gauges governed by ancient carriages. London streets still wend and wind because many were simply not designed for motorised traffic, yet we still use them.
It's not at all a stretch of the imagination to consider that cities a hundred years from now will be built on the recognisable and still in use bits that we see today.
Yes - you can get these kind of controllers to control any AU/VST. The Novation in particular wraps the AU/VST using something called Automap, but more common approaches are to implement something like "MIDI learn" on the virtual instrument, then turning whatever dial on the control surface.
You know - I have a Novation SL Mk 2 and a Behringer BCF2000, and I still find myself reverting to mouse control. I just found the other way too imprecise and difficult to replicate consistently.
Plus there's the annoyance with automap when it comes to the Novation, but that's a specific issue with their design choice and not about the input method per se.
You might be interested in reading about Logic's Environment View, which can be used similarly to how you describe.
> you're point
I hang my head in shame.
Yes I do, because there's a generation that grew up now using virtual. I've never used the original analogue stuff and trying to work it all out on a computer screen just feels very....anachronistic to me.
I understand you're point when it's an emulation of original hardware, but people are still making new, entirely digital instruments like this as well. It really irritates.
Yep - completely agreed. I remember the "is it an LC or a Centris or a Performa...?" days of identical models with different badges. Was just silly.
Apart from, you know, the last 40 years that is. Even in the dark days they still had ideas - the Newton for instance, which yeah Jobs didn't like and blah blah blah, but he was one of the few that didn't.
What Jobs did really well is sell, yes. But he also brought other qualities - a consistent product line was one of them. This is where things like the 4k TV are well over due, and also where legitimate criticisms like the no-USB C-cable-in-an-iPhone-box come from. Apple's entire with phones, tablets, computers etc. can do 4k. The one place I might show the family those photos can't. That's ridiculous, and this incremental upgrade is overdue.
Bear in mind though that Apple aren't hyping it, in fact they haven't even mentioned it. Others have looked in firmware and found what seems to be a sensible upgrade and have publicised that they've found it - that's all. For me as owner of a gen 3, it's interesting. World changing no, but yeah - it's something I'm following. If they launch that and the rumoured Prime app comes out, then that's finally all my media (iTunes/Netflix/Prime/self-ripped so Plex or similar) in one place so I'd likely buy.
Apple. Proudly going out of business for over 40 years.
I think they might have identified him explicitly, but I don't think it's too far of a stretch to have an article about the musician from Portal - Still Alive (This Was A Triumph); Now I Only Want You Gone - plus a few other geek-known tracks here and there. Agree they should have given a quick lead-in on background though.
Honestly, it would likely become a lot more stable if the world suddenly found a serious self-interest in making it so.
An extremely good, and free, e-book on climate change recommended this solution in 2008. The author, David MacKay, was the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (UK).
Here's the book - I thoroughly recommend it: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air.
It attempts a quantative approach to determining whether particular alternative sources of energy are useful and sustainable or not. It's a short read, politics free (neither "bah, it's all a hoax!" nor "do this immediately or DIE!") and is definitely worth the time of anyone interested in the subject.