I have no doubt that the defense industry, among others, will be given winks and nods and get tipped off when foreign competitors are bidding against them, or when interesting IP is scooped up.
I can see that the neutral Canadian accent was a better choice but I do wonder what Balsam's performance was like. When actors are yanked I believe it's the rule that they don't comment but I do wonder if any of Balsam's work on the film survives.
Motor sports will survive but day to day driving will be eclipsed by robots. It's only a question of time. Driving will be taught to the police and to people in the military as necessary job functions but most people will eventually not need to drive when renting fleet time on robot cars.
This will provide us with new opportunities, what I don't know, but car culture will become a thing of a past even though I love driving stick. What will be interesting is seeing what replaces the marker of transitioning to adulthood that the driver's licence has.
We've thrown the baby out with the bathwater with respect to books. Sure we can ship badly formatted PDFs to customers and forget that as far as being able to visualize very complex information, a big book can be marked up, have coloured chapter markers down the side, and lets you 'map the content in your mind' as you flip pages.
For consumer products the Mac-ification of product design has been great. (Does anyone remember how crappy phone interfaces were before the iPhone was launched?) For enterprise-grade, technical products that may often require courses to operate, complex documentation sets are the rule and yes, paper books and posters are very helpful.
They are also bespoke. Getting nicely printed documentation actually makes you look like you are being serviced by a grown up company that is not afraid of organizing information and making things coherent rather than throwing 'good enough' where-do-I-click articles on-line and hoping that's good enough. Alternatively it can mean you're part of a regulated industry where things have to get written down or else...
To be fair, it is the number one way to screw up your life. And if not the number one, it's in the top two. This drug is widely available, people self-medicate with it because it has social blessing, it's advertised everywhere and yes, there's even a word for abusing it that's in common parlance -- alcoholism. It's not just the deaths it's the messed second, third and fourth order consequences.
Let me give a simple example: alcohol abuse makes you a lousy parent.
However, generally the police have proven largely indifferent to technology so there are not that many coders among them apparently, and experts in video time sync and editing usually requires an apprenticeship and access to expensive software that a cop on the beat is unlikely to conjure up.
Their 'task manager' to do list was fantastic. I wish there was something as simple and powerful. You could make unordered lists so easily and sort them by priority. It was wonderful.
I'm an old Apple hand but this really is self-interest masquerading as a feature. Headphones with wires are not only incredibly inexpensive, but guaranteed to work barring physical damage and aren't immediately devalued by irreplaceable battery cycle degradation.
That $7000 Nikon D5 is the see in the dark Batman camera. It's meant for photojournalists who have to shoot in often horrible conditions. Their other camera is a $5000 super resolution 45 MP that generates images with nearly 15 stops of dynamic range and in 14 bit. Both of these cameras produce images that are so far beyond what phones can do. The cameras have their sensors and Analogue to Digital converters fine tuned for their different jobs.
A few years ago one of the Chicago papers laid off all its photographers and gave their reporters iPhones. When the hockey team won the Stanley Cup guess whose front page was an embarrassment.
The sheer amount of light gathering full sized cameras can do justifies their existence.
Not a laptop that happens to be plugged into a wall. A desktop that uses all 110v coming out of the wall and uses interoperable parts and has room for many, many hard drives and PCI cards?
Even the new so-called Mac Pro iMac throttles itself before the fans spin up. This is laptop engineering, not desktop engineering and I fear they may have lost that expertise. As someone who depends on a Mac Pro 5,1, sorry but it looks like my next machine will be a Hackintosh. I don't need the latest bell and whistle on the desktop. What I do need are:
Something that I can depend upon for a high availability duty cycle
Using all 110 volts coming out of the wall
Spinning as many large hard drives as I can fit in the box
PCI cards for the SSD raid boot, swap file SSD, full size graphics card and communications card
And I'm no-one special.
Addressing that third point, Our German friends have a wonderful word: Kablesalat (literally cable salad). The current Mac Pro iMac and Coke Can Mac Pro force you to have multiple power bars nearby for brick on string external power supplies for all of your hard drives. Jesus? Who thought that was a practical idea for given how the cable transformers are made it's often impossible make full use of the sockets.
If the answer is put them all in a single raid box you're missing the point. Not everything needs to should be or should be a raid.
If anyone at Apple is listening: you're telling people who want to buy from you, and have options, and are sophisticated enough to be fault tolerant, to f*** off. Well, do as you will but it seems to me you should reserve that attitude for people who don't have options.
PS, can you make another seventeen inch laptop large enough to hold hard drives? Those new video cameras soak up a lot of hard drive space.
Unfortunately true. I was working on an article about a film and some kid replaced the entire article with his school essay. I and others tried to revert it but because we are adults with jobs competing with students with a lot of free time on their hands, I, at least gave up.
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I have no doubt that the defense industry, among others, will be given winks and nods and get tipped off when foreign competitors are bidding against them, or when interesting IP is scooped up.
... to word processing.
I can see that the neutral Canadian accent was a better choice but I do wonder what Balsam's performance was like. When actors are yanked I believe it's the rule that they don't comment but I do wonder if any of Balsam's work on the film survives.
Just wondering.
If Adobe Creative Suite ran on Ubuntu I'd be gone. Sorry but it's true.
Motor sports will survive but day to day driving will be eclipsed by robots. It's only a question of time. Driving will be taught to the police and to people in the military as necessary job functions but most people will eventually not need to drive when renting fleet time on robot cars.
This will provide us with new opportunities, what I don't know, but car culture will become a thing of a past even though I love driving stick. What will be interesting is seeing what replaces the marker of transitioning to adulthood that the driver's licence has.
We've thrown the baby out with the bathwater with respect to books. Sure we can ship badly formatted PDFs to customers and forget that as far as being able to visualize very complex information, a big book can be marked up, have coloured chapter markers down the side, and lets you 'map the content in your mind' as you flip pages.
For consumer products the Mac-ification of product design has been great. (Does anyone remember how crappy phone interfaces were before the iPhone was launched?) For enterprise-grade, technical products that may often require courses to operate, complex documentation sets are the rule and yes, paper books and posters are very helpful.
They are also bespoke. Getting nicely printed documentation actually makes you look like you are being serviced by a grown up company that is not afraid of organizing information and making things coherent rather than throwing 'good enough' where-do-I-click articles on-line and hoping that's good enough. Alternatively it can mean you're part of a regulated industry where things have to get written down or else...
To be fair, it is the number one way to screw up your life. And if not the number one, it's in the top two. This drug is widely available, people self-medicate with it because it has social blessing, it's advertised everywhere and yes, there's even a word for abusing it that's in common parlance -- alcoholism. It's not just the deaths it's the messed second, third and fourth order consequences.
Let me give a simple example: alcohol abuse makes you a lousy parent.
..by claiming the scientists and engineers were misogynists?
This will somehow be men's fault.
However, generally the police have proven largely indifferent to technology so there are not that many coders among them apparently, and experts in video time sync and editing usually requires an apprenticeship and access to expensive software that a cop on the beat is unlikely to conjure up.
It can't hurt to ask.
Their 'task manager' to do list was fantastic. I wish there was something as simple and powerful. You could make unordered lists so easily and sort them by priority. It was wonderful.
I'm an old Apple hand but this really is self-interest masquerading as a feature. Headphones with wires are not only incredibly inexpensive, but guaranteed to work barring physical damage and aren't immediately devalued by irreplaceable battery cycle degradation.
That $7000 Nikon D5 is the see in the dark Batman camera. It's meant for photojournalists who have to shoot in often horrible conditions. Their other camera is a $5000 super resolution 45 MP that generates images with nearly 15 stops of dynamic range and in 14 bit. Both of these cameras produce images that are so far beyond what phones can do. The cameras have their sensors and Analogue to Digital converters fine tuned for their different jobs.
A few years ago one of the Chicago papers laid off all its photographers and gave their reporters iPhones. When the hockey team won the Stanley Cup guess whose front page was an embarrassment.
The sheer amount of light gathering full sized cameras can do justifies their existence.
There will be a mass exodus.
Out of idle curiosity?
When will people stop being surprised at things like this?
Are the delays any different?
I know that iTunes and everyone else has the stock answer of 'buy it again' but what do the courts say?
Not a laptop that happens to be plugged into a wall. A desktop that uses all 110v coming out of the wall and uses interoperable parts and has room for many, many hard drives and PCI cards?
To see such pericombobulation.
The only reason why it's not working is because you. It's your fault.
Fortunately, we can hire consultants to help you.
Even the new so-called Mac Pro iMac throttles itself before the fans spin up. This is laptop engineering, not desktop engineering and I fear they may have lost that expertise. As someone who depends on a Mac Pro 5,1, sorry but it looks like my next machine will be a Hackintosh. I don't need the latest bell and whistle on the desktop. What I do need are:
Something that I can depend upon for a high availability duty cycle
Using all 110 volts coming out of the wall
Spinning as many large hard drives as I can fit in the box
PCI cards for the SSD raid boot, swap file SSD, full size graphics card and communications card
And I'm no-one special.
Addressing that third point, Our German friends have a wonderful word: Kablesalat (literally cable salad). The current Mac Pro iMac and Coke Can Mac Pro force you to have multiple power bars nearby for brick on string external power supplies for all of your hard drives. Jesus? Who thought that was a practical idea for given how the cable transformers are made it's often impossible make full use of the sockets.
If the answer is put them all in a single raid box you're missing the point. Not everything needs to should be or should be a raid.
If anyone at Apple is listening: you're telling people who want to buy from you, and have options, and are sophisticated enough to be fault tolerant, to f*** off. Well, do as you will but it seems to me you should reserve that attitude for people who don't have options.
PS, can you make another seventeen inch laptop large enough to hold hard drives? Those new video cameras soak up a lot of hard drive space.
Unfortunately true. I was working on an article about a film and some kid replaced the entire article with his school essay. I and others tried to revert it but because we are adults with jobs competing with students with a lot of free time on their hands, I, at least gave up.