I subscribe to a splendid magazine called 'Octane'. Every page is read assiduously except for the comment page by Mr Bayley, subtitled "The Aesthete". I found his writing to be pretentious and often factually-suspect so started skipping it each month. Stack him up against Jay Leno, Derek Bell and Robert Coucher and there's no comparison.
What I'm saying is, your supposition that Mr Bayley is trying to push buttons could well be true.
My Late 2009 Mac Mini is running Plex server and home theatre on 10.10.4. First quote I could find about system requirements (from a Mac World article here )
Like Yosemite, El Capitan can run on the following Macs:
iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
Xserve (Early 2009)
So, which of your three-year old machines is not on that list?
That's a slight overstatement. Whilst we focus on the niche end of car production, the following companies, inter alia, are still UK-owned and doing quite nicely:
Noble Westfield Caterham (Bristol - not doing so well...) Morgan Ultima McLaren Ginetta Caparo (really very niche) Lightning
Not sure old Queeny would want to be driven in any of those, though. Her Majesty's R620 (http://uk.caterhamcars.com/cars/seven-620-r) would certainly make for rapid meet-the-peoples.
The UK also provides much of the engineering expertise and componentry used by the rest of the motor industry. Motor sports throughout the world are similarly dependent on the UK's engineers, even your IndyCars have been known to use UK-produced power plants and gearboxes.
As I said, if there's no trustworthy source of checksums, ie if HP don't make the checksums available to non-payers, to what am I going to match the suspect, pirated files?
But no sensible sysadmin would go to a pirate site to get firmware updates, so I really would fault someone doing that. If there's no reliable source of checksums available without a contract, how on earth would we ever trust the pirated updates?
For example, upon analysis of the text, it may be determined that the origin of the text is from a Shakespearean play. A setting or location of 16.sup.th Century England may then be determined by the context analysis module 316
because non-SI units are the most commonly accepted units in the US, it is logical to use those units to communicate.
And US scientists and engineers never communicate with colleagues, competitors or customers from (most of) the rest of the world who have embraced the future (circa 1795-1975)?
Can you see why a previous comment about "everyone different than me" tickles me?
No, not a magic bullet, but a self-consistent, extensible, logical, location-independent basis for straightforward communication. Conversion of units doesn't scare me, it just seems a splendidly archaic and sometimes error-prone way to spend time. A quick trite example: without knowing where your interlocutor lives or works or chooses to base their unit system on, tell me how much liquid is in the gallon container next to my desk?
"Everyone different from me" is amusing, maybe even ironic, though I don't know where you hail from so I can't be sure.
Personally I think that part of the problem is the non-metric units that are still in use. By accepting that it is in any way sensible to use them, you've already given up on the logical, elegant approach to quantification. You've made it more likely that people resort to the "football fields" etc.
With regard to the long exposures, I've found digital makes one aspect of the process much, much better, and that's the oldest argument in favour of digital in general: experimentation is quick and cheap. I've started using Lee's Big Stopper recently and I'm pleased I can chuck away (without developing) 97% of my early work with it!
At the risk of getting all mushy and sentimental - thank you aussie.virologist, and your ilk, for doing something worthwhile with all these processor cycles available to the world.
1. Traffic monitoring built in to my chosen GPS enables changes to route after setting off.
2. Even without automatic traffic updates, I can see problems ahead, turn off the current route and let the GPS pick up the pieces.
3. If I've got a long route memorised (in a hypothetical world without GPS), but somehow forget a turning I will have to backtrack or find signs to the next "waypoint" in my mind. If I'm in another country, or well outside my usual area of travel, that's a non-trivial task.
4. "Safety" camera information is available from the GPS, along with stuff like petrol stations, car parks, etc..
5. Why shouldn't I use GPS? Just because people have done things for about a century doesn't mean we can't embrace progress. I can still read a map quite nicely, thanks and still use one for planning longer walks or driving tours etc. But I would not willingly sacrifice my car's GPS for day-to-day driving.
Get off the treadmill:) Whilst I do have some "current" Rails books (notably The Rails 3 Way), I've stopped getting new editions of the Pickaxe or Agile WDR books. RailsCasts and good old fashioned studying the docs or picking through Stack Overflow have replaced purchasing books on Rails.
And the solution has hardly changed "completely" every two years. You'd still recognise Rails 1 code if you saw it today.
I limit my book purchases now to well-regarded overviews of new technologies, published before the full developer ecosystem has evolved, along with meatier tomes on design or subjects that I might one day make use of but don't currently need (most recently a book on ANTLR).
Microsoft's wide portfolio of products may allow a little cross-subsidisation (mild understatement), which is not really an option for a one-product firm as described in this story.
Also the Express editions might be considered loss-leaders: you start with the basics and eventually you need the full-blown paid product. It doesn't seem like this firm is differentiating its offerings in such a way.
Replying to my own post in order to correct inaccuracy in first paragraph. As multiple responders have pointed out, milk is not sold by metric volume but by our version of Imperial measurements.
Still, they do "map quite closely to the old sizes":)
Check your test suite covers all the functionality you want your program to have. If you're feeling paranoid, create a couple of tests that WILL fail when the undesirable code is deleted. Make sure everything is in the repo. Maybe branch/tag. Delete, repeat tests, roll-back or checkin (after deleting the canary tests added above) and move on to the next thrilling episode in your coding career.
The first sentence of the paragraph above is of cours the killer - without a full-stack suite of tests there'll always be room for doubt.
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A new way to add an erroneous S to LEGO. Well played.
That video is called "The LEGO Story". No apostrophe, no S (there never is with Lego or LEGO. Never).
Yes, this irks me. No, I've no idea why (and I'm not looking for suggestions, thanks)
much wisdom in fraxinus-tree's six-point plan.
I subscribe to a splendid magazine called 'Octane'. Every page is read assiduously except for the comment page by Mr Bayley, subtitled "The Aesthete". I found his writing to be pretentious and often factually-suspect so started skipping it each month. Stack him up against Jay Leno, Derek Bell and Robert Coucher and there's no comparison.
What I'm saying is, your supposition that Mr Bayley is trying to push buttons could well be true.
My Late 2009 Mac Mini is running Plex server and home theatre on 10.10.4. First quote I could find about system requirements (from a Mac World article here )
So, which of your three-year old machines is not on that list?
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
LED Cinema 27" (connected 92.3% of the time)
Yosemite / VMware Fusion
Linux Sysadmin/Network management, Ruby/C++ development
and all other UK cars are no longer UK
That's a slight overstatement. Whilst we focus on the niche end of car production, the following companies, inter alia, are still UK-owned and doing quite nicely:
Noble
Westfield
Caterham
(Bristol - not doing so well...)
Morgan
Ultima
McLaren
Ginetta
Caparo (really very niche)
Lightning
Not sure old Queeny would want to be driven in any of those, though. Her Majesty's R620 (http://uk.caterhamcars.com/cars/seven-620-r) would certainly make for rapid meet-the-peoples.
The UK also provides much of the engineering expertise and componentry used by the rest of the motor industry. Motor sports throughout the world are similarly dependent on the UK's engineers, even your IndyCars have been known to use UK-produced power plants and gearboxes.
Why not as long as the chechsums match?
As I said, if there's no trustworthy source of checksums, ie if HP don't make the checksums available to non-payers, to what am I going to match the suspect, pirated files?
But no sensible sysadmin would go to a pirate site to get firmware updates, so I really would fault someone doing that. If there's no reliable source of checksums available without a contract, how on earth would we ever trust the pirated updates?
Delayed response due to offline time, but I take your point.
The monument is overtly Christian - note the book illustrated top-left: http://peoplesworld.org/ten-commandments-monument-spurs-controversy-in-oklahoma/
Also note the voting record and recorded religion of the guy whose family funded it and who introduced the bill permitting it in the first place: http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/106671/mike-ritze#.UqZHmZGELK4
So the intent seems to be overtly Christian, even if the Ten Commandments are shared by many religions.
Ok, we get it, you don't like Slashdot.
From the patent:
Can you point this time-poor Slashdotter to where TFA says the device "reconstructs the 3D scene" as opposed to provides a 360 degree panorama?
... bot checks for fields hidden by javascript, doesn't fill them in, you accept the form. The arms race continues.
And US scientists and engineers never communicate with colleagues, competitors or customers from (most of) the rest of the world who have embraced the future (circa 1795-1975)?
Can you see why a previous comment about "everyone different than me" tickles me?
To pre-empt any silliness, let's say the container is full of a liquid stable at the local room temperature.
No, not a magic bullet, but a self-consistent, extensible, logical, location-independent basis for straightforward communication. Conversion of units doesn't scare me, it just seems a splendidly archaic and sometimes error-prone way to spend time. A quick trite example: without knowing where your interlocutor lives or works or chooses to base their unit system on, tell me how much liquid is in the gallon container next to my desk?
"Everyone different from me" is amusing, maybe even ironic, though I don't know where you hail from so I can't be sure.
Personally I think that part of the problem is the non-metric units that are still in use. By accepting that it is in any way sensible to use them, you've already given up on the logical, elegant approach to quantification. You've made it more likely that people resort to the "football fields" etc.
With regard to the long exposures, I've found digital makes one aspect of the process much, much better, and that's the oldest argument in favour of digital in general: experimentation is quick and cheap. I've started using Lee's Big Stopper recently and I'm pleased I can chuck away (without developing) 97% of my early work with it!
From Oxford Dictionary of English:
commentator |ËkÉ'mÉ(TM)nteÉtÉ(TM)|
noun
a person who comments on events or on a text.
â a person who commentates on a sports match or other event.
Commenter may have been more appropriate in the circumstances, I'll grant you.
At the risk of getting all mushy and sentimental - thank you aussie.virologist, and your ilk, for doing something worthwhile with all these processor cycles available to the world.
1. Traffic monitoring built in to my chosen GPS enables changes to route after setting off.
2. Even without automatic traffic updates, I can see problems ahead, turn off the current route and let the GPS pick up the pieces.
3. If I've got a long route memorised (in a hypothetical world without GPS), but somehow forget a turning I will have to backtrack or find signs to the next "waypoint" in my mind. If I'm in another country, or well outside my usual area of travel, that's a non-trivial task.
4. "Safety" camera information is available from the GPS, along with stuff like petrol stations, car parks, etc..
5. Why shouldn't I use GPS? Just because people have done things for about a century doesn't mean we can't embrace progress. I can still read a map quite nicely, thanks and still use one for planning longer walks or driving tours etc. But I would not willingly sacrifice my car's GPS for day-to-day driving.
Get off the treadmill :) Whilst I do have some "current" Rails books (notably The Rails 3 Way), I've stopped getting new editions of the Pickaxe or Agile WDR books. RailsCasts and good old fashioned studying the docs or picking through Stack Overflow have replaced purchasing books on Rails.
And the solution has hardly changed "completely" every two years. You'd still recognise Rails 1 code if you saw it today.
I limit my book purchases now to well-regarded overviews of new technologies, published before the full developer ecosystem has evolved, along with meatier tomes on design or subjects that I might one day make use of but don't currently need (most recently a book on ANTLR).
Microsoft's wide portfolio of products may allow a little cross-subsidisation (mild understatement), which is not really an option for a one-product firm as described in this story.
Also the Express editions might be considered loss-leaders: you start with the basics and eventually you need the full-blown paid product. It doesn't seem like this firm is differentiating its offerings in such a way.
Replying to my own post in order to correct inaccuracy in first paragraph. As multiple responders have pointed out, milk is not sold by metric volume but by our version of Imperial measurements.
Still, they do "map quite closely to the old sizes" :)
Check your test suite covers all the functionality you want your program to have. If you're feeling paranoid, create a couple of tests that WILL fail when the undesirable code is deleted. Make sure everything is in the repo. Maybe branch/tag. Delete, repeat tests, roll-back or checkin (after deleting the canary tests added above) and move on to the next thrilling episode in your coding career.
The first sentence of the paragraph above is of cours the killer - without a full-stack suite of tests there'll always be room for doubt.