The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. (Bernard Avishai)
with incandescents — the ive found the colour spectrum left me with the 'blues' — it was only when halogens came on the scene, that i felt that we finally had a bulb that got us closer to a natural sunshine daylight full spectrum bulb. then came compact flourescents —those toxic (mercury) abonitations made poor lighting quality manditory. thank god LEDs came in just in time to forstall the takeover of the CFLs.
consumers should be given a choice — halogen bulbs still have the best colour spectrum imo. why should we be banned from having good colour quality bulbs!? tax them, or whatever if the reason is because of the energy efficiency — but it is not because the quality of the lighting is better.
people forget that in the world before the app store — you had to setup your own website, and promotion, and micro-payment transaction processing system. these were often onerous for small software developers who were at a significant disadvantage when trying to sell software online.
the app store gave you distribution — and micropayment transaction processing (that you could not obtain, since the credit card companies didnt want to deal with you unless you did a minimum of $30,000 in sales — which did not occur for most software developers.
geez. go back to the old system, and see how well you do.
this is the same thing they said about MOTORS — that they would save us from having to do all the labour and free us for other things — what actually happened is that they made us work just as long — with 10x the horsepower coming from machinery to leverage the higher profits made possible by the machinery.
i think most people are expected to buy the iphone 8 - but some people may needthe processing pawer of a macbook pro in their phone (with the pro app support in iOS) - in their phone. professional photgraphers and musicians may need a notebook processor in their phone - now they can have one.
for the rest of ya peasants, get back to the iphone 8, cause the X aint for you.
the touchbar uses an extra monitor driven by the graphics card to provide the seamless extensibility that it does — so i dont think you could easily add something like that to any old USB keyboard — because you would also need the support of a graphics card to do so.
it is only possible on the macbooks because the graphics card is already rolled in to the same package as where the touchbar is.
i've recently converted from C++ to Swift — better modern native unicode string handling, and scales really well from beginner semantics all the way to system level stuff. its a great language to work in — and written by chris lattner (who wrote the clang and LLVM compiler/architecture) — so its well fitted for performance optimizations/very fast.
swift is the first language that i'd say i feel comfortable replacing C++ with.
and good design - simple is hard, and theyve worked really hard to make something that is perhaps more beautiful than it needs to be, but in a way that every functional component is at once also aesthetic - they have done to the computer what mies van der rohe did for buildings and architecture.
some people appreciate that care and attention to detail - carrying through the consequences of simplification even into every component - so that all the parts work well together by design. for some, that can be extremely satisfying. to use a product for a while, and then stumble on a feature where you go, 'wow.. they thought of that too..!' - you can feel the passion that went into the denign of the product, and its meticulous execution.
oto, could care less, they live more mundane lives, technology devoid of art.
current home setup: macbookPro(2009) — three plugs: power; usb to hub; thunderbolt to display. all my devices plug into usb hub(scarlett audio interface, backup drive, midi interface, usb keys).
what this does is supplies the power to the left or right handed user, and drives total# plugs to 1 things to fiddle: power coming in from display; and simultaneously supplying data to the display — that's radical — and the display contains the usb hub — its consolidated 3 wires to one for at home use.
on the road, work on a retina display and a great keyboard.
the ESC key still exists. one can keep using vim (and if you real vim, you can remap your keys).
in the way that i use my macbook, i have a main larger monitor + cherry keyswitch keyboard — with real spring keyswitches. waaay better for typing then any laptop keyboard (although typing on the new mac butterfly keyboard is quite good, as far as laptop keyboards go).
when im at home and coding — i'm on my main screen + good keyboard all the time, and the macbook is off to the side.
when i'm on the road — i still have an ESC key that works. i've lost nothing.
your usage patterns may vary — if you're a heavy vi user that is never at home/office and only work and only use vim, then it may not be the machine for you.
i grew up in a time before cell phones — im used to a watch, and after 10+ years of living without one (because of having the time on a phone) — it is rather pleasant having one again. i wouldnt say it replaces the phone, but is a good supplement — i find i dont have to pull out my phone as often, and love the way i can just glance over to see what's coming in without having to haul out a brick.
most of all — its just got to be a good watch — and it still doesnt beat my movado — but the apple watch does its job being a watch, but with nice connectivity for messages and such.
what surprised me is that one of the most used features is just having the weather on the face of the watch — living on an island, and riding a bike — knowing the weather and the time to the boat are everyday practical.
loving the watch, and the fact that i can code for it and make it do stuff if i so desire is great for a geek.:-D
the semantics of the languages change (C++, Swift, Java) — but the type of thinking you need to see the effect of logical interactions is best introduced by getting students playing CHESS. it offers the ability to teach logic independent of individual language semantics which i would see as fundamental.
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somebody has the sense to end this useless barnacle of an abomination — good riddance!
using:
security dump-keychain -d login.keychain > keychain.txt
in the terminal works rather nicely. this used to do so without authentication for the individual items.
newer versions of macOS now ask for user password before revealing passwords — but for a long time, and for older systems, this works quite nicely.
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john p
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. (Bernard Avishai)
with incandescents — the ive found the colour spectrum left me with the 'blues' — it was only when halogens came on the scene, that i felt that we finally had a bulb that got us closer to a natural sunshine daylight full spectrum bulb. then came compact flourescents —those toxic (mercury) abonitations made poor lighting quality manditory. thank god LEDs came in just in time to forstall the takeover of the CFLs.
consumers should be given a choice — halogen bulbs still have the best colour spectrum imo.
why should we be banned from having good colour quality bulbs!? tax them, or whatever if the
reason is because of the energy efficiency — but it is not because the quality of the lighting is better.
people forget that in the world before the app store — you had to setup your own website, and promotion, and micro-payment transaction processing system. these were often onerous for small software developers who were at a significant disadvantage when trying to sell software online.
the app store gave you distribution — and micropayment transaction processing (that you could not obtain, since the credit card companies didnt want to deal with you unless you did a minimum of $30,000 in sales — which did not occur for most software developers.
geez. go back to the old system, and see how well you do.
it has taken a free OS upgrade more than 2 years to match win7 marketshare. hmm..
this is the same thing they said about MOTORS — that they would save us from having to do all the labour and free us for other things — what actually happened is that they made us work just as long — with 10x the horsepower coming from machinery to leverage the higher profits made possible by the machinery.
how about a ban on tweeting while at work!?
i think most people are expected to buy the iphone 8 - but some people may needthe processing pawer of a macbook pro in their phone (with the pro app support in iOS) - in their phone. professional photgraphers and musicians may need a notebook processor in their phone - now they can have one.
for the rest of ya peasants, get back to the iphone 8, cause the X aint for you.
probably about the same as what happens when a plane fails.
2cents
j
the touchbar uses an extra monitor driven by the graphics card to provide the seamless extensibility that it does — so i dont think you could easily add something like that to any old USB keyboard — because you would also need the support of a graphics card to do so.
it is only possible on the macbooks because the graphics card is already rolled in to the same package as where the touchbar is.
2cents from toronto island
john p
i've recently converted from C++ to Swift — better modern native unicode string handling, and scales really well from beginner semantics all the way to system level stuff. its a great language to work in — and written by chris lattner (who wrote the clang and LLVM compiler/architecture) — so its well fitted for performance optimizations/very fast.
swift is the first language that i'd say i feel comfortable replacing C++ with.
2cents from toronto
john p
anyone that's going to dig in to Dennett's explanation of consciousness should also consider two epistemological works by rudolf steiner:
The Philosophy of Freedom - Some results of introspective observation following the methods of Natural Science:
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/...
and
The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/...
The C Programming Language - Kernighan and Ritchie: http://www.cprogramming.com/bo...
Herman Goldstine, The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/2981...
and good design - simple is hard, and theyve worked really hard to make something that is perhaps more beautiful than it needs to be, but in a way that every functional component is at once also aesthetic - they have done to the computer what mies van der rohe did for buildings and architecture.
some people appreciate that care and attention to detail - carrying through the consequences of simplification even into every component - so that all the parts work well together by design. for some, that can be extremely satisfying. to use a product for a while, and then stumble on a feature where you go, 'wow.. they thought of that too..!' - you can feel the passion that went into the denign of the product, and its meticulous execution.
oto, could care less, they live more mundane lives, technology devoid of art.
2cents from toronto island
john p
yes!
omg — they just did to FN keys what GUI did to DOS.
current home setup: macbookPro(2009) — three plugs: power; usb to hub; thunderbolt to display. all my devices plug into usb hub(scarlett audio interface, backup drive, midi interface, usb keys).
what this does is supplies the power to the left or right handed user, and drives total# plugs to 1 things to fiddle: power coming in from display; and simultaneously supplying data to the display — that's radical — and the display contains the usb hub — its consolidated 3 wires to one for at home use.
on the road, work on a retina display and a great keyboard.
hey guys, move over..
the ESC key still exists. one can keep using vim (and if you real vim, you can remap your keys).
in the way that i use my macbook, i have a main larger monitor + cherry keyswitch keyboard — with real spring keyswitches. waaay better for typing then any laptop keyboard (although typing on the new mac butterfly keyboard is quite good, as far as laptop keyboards go).
when im at home and coding — i'm on my main screen + good keyboard all the time, and the macbook is off to the side.
when i'm on the road — i still have an ESC key that works. i've lost nothing.
your usage patterns may vary — if you're a heavy vi user that is never at home/office and only work and only use vim, then it may not be the machine for you.
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i grew up in a time before cell phones — im used to a watch, and after 10+ years of living without one (because of having the time on a phone) — it is rather pleasant having one again. i wouldnt say it replaces the phone, but is a good supplement — i find i dont have to pull out my phone as often, and love the way i can just glance over to see what's coming in without having to haul out a brick.
most of all — its just got to be a good watch — and it still doesnt beat my movado — but the apple watch does its job being a watch, but with nice connectivity for messages and such.
what surprised me is that one of the most used features is just having the weather on the face of the watch — living on an island, and riding a bike — knowing the weather and the time to the boat are everyday practical.
loving the watch, and the fact that i can code for it and make it do stuff if i so desire is great for a geek. :-D
jp (toronto island)
the semantics of the languages change (C++, Swift, Java) — but the type of thinking you need to see the effect of logical interactions is best introduced by getting students playing CHESS. it offers the ability to teach logic independent of individual language semantics which i would see as fundamental.
2cents
jp
the iphones no longer have headphone jacks — and the samsungs explode in yer pants..!
bleah
ars technica — there's no reason not to update — http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...
upgraded to iOS 10 + watchOS 3 — works good.
messaging, phone, and all the apps dont have any weird crashes on my iPhone 5s.
also, my own iOS xcode apps install and run on the phone without modification in xcode 8.
the new watch face in watchOS 3 is usable, and the watch responds faster.
solid upgrade.
2cents from toronto island
jp