We have our share of those particular users here as well. I mean, tech.slashdot.org is pretty okay and I like it here. But those Apple fanboys, shiiieieeeeet do they get under my skin. Those pasty-white hipster monkey felchers ought to be taught a lesson.
Okay everybody with mod points, go to apple.slashdot.org and BURN IT TO THE GROUND!
[quote]Commuters armed with mobile mapping apps, route-following Lyft and Uber drivers, and software-optimized truckers can all act with a more perfect selfishness.[/quote]
Selfishness? Just because people are using the information that's available to them? Perhaps the government should start planning transportation according to smart people instead of sheeps. Madness, to accuse people of selfishness when it's obviously lack of planning that's the problem.
I'm not saying that building more roads is the solution. Lots of governments are about to go bankrupt on road maintenance alone. However I think technology can save us here. When I was young, I thought we'd have special equipment alongside roads, so we'd have self-driving cars. But that hasn't happened, and tech companies are now fixing this problem themselves, using AI to drive on imperfect roads.
Very cool, but I have to admit that I'm 100% on laptop nowadays. I either work at the client site, or in my own office, and decided that I'd rather maintain one laptop instead of two desktops. With USB-C, you basically turn monitors into docks. It's just one or two cables and you go. No UPS necessary with a laptop.
I've had one, the 2013 model. I bought it with student discount for 934 euros, sold it 4 years later for 500 euros. That machine cost me 110 euros (US$ 135) per year. I found this truly incredible.
Now that doesn't work for all models. I've incurred a huge 800 euro loss on a 15" MacBook Pro that was bought for a project that was canceled after a couple of months. So it only seems to work for the fast-moving budget MacBooks. But the Air specifically was/is hugely popular.
I've read and re-read all of Banks' "Culture" books. It's one of the few where you get to know extremely powerful AIs as characters. They play a real role in the books, sometimes even more so than the meatbags.
The graphics toolkit is called UIKit. All stuff on the screen (buttons, textfields, everything) descends from a class called UIView. The screen itself is a view, let's call it the main view.
So anyway, all UIView instances have four anchors (top/bottom/left/right). You can hang these anchors to other anchors, to the edge of the main view, or to the safeAreaLayoutGuide of the main view. And that safeAreaLayoutGuide is the biggest square area of the main view. Meaning, the bottom of the notch is basically the top of the safeAreaLayoutGuide.
That's all there is to it.
Where I do see a problem, is that some Android phones have very small notches, just covering a camera. If you use the iOS approach, you'll have a lot of wasted space.
Heck, Apple is so embarrassed by their smartwatch sales numbers
I find that hard to believe. Horace Dedieu of Asymco estimates that Apple is now the biggest watchmaker in the world, overtaking Rolex during the last quarter of 2017.
Big problem with "stopping sex trafficking" is that you'd have to have reliable numbers before and after the attempt to stop it. Unfortunately, there's a whole industry (both inside and outside of police) who earn their money dealing with sex trafficking. On top of that, it's hard to challenge those numbers, because you don't want to be that person.
So any and all news coming from police about sex trafficking numbers is suspect to me.
The same thing can be said for day trading in individual shares, options, et cetera. What determines the price of a share, if there isn't any news? Noise. They're trading on noise. And now there's suddenly a trend, and most follow it.
When it come to places, anime is a very accurate depiction of real life Japan
So the school can be a very accurate depiction, while the tentacle monster enthousiastically making love to the pretty school teacher is less accurate? Damn.
I agree on the snowflake thing. Got a colleague right now who is a 2nd generation immigrant, and actually derides immigrant colleagues. It's a sight to see. Or actually it isn't, and sometimes I just say "Could we keep things civil here?". Which does seem to help.
I'm no social justice warrior at all, but this is incredibly generalizing. It just completely depends on the people involved. It sounds like you had a bad experience once, and then assumed it's the same everywhere.
It's not. I've worked with women in teams that resulted in an unpleasant work environment. And I've worked with women in teams that resulted in a great project.
Ah yes, immediately follow up with Siri is probably the fastest way. Thanks!
Perhaps I wrote my post poorly, but you're the only one who got it -- I wasn't looking for a scheduled way, I was looking for: "don't disturb for the coming hour".
Usually I've got an iPhone (I'm an iOS developer) but I've got a Nexus 5 as well. There's one feature I miss, and that's to turn on the Do Not Disturb mode for a set time. For example, you walk into a meeting, and turn on Do Not Disturb for 1 hour.
iPhones don't have that, it's an on/off thing and I'm _very_ likely to turn it on, and then forget to turn it off.
It's not the only thing, of course -- if you look at the iMac Pro page on the Apple website, the first thing they mention, is "18 cores, power to the pro".
But I think they mention the whole Hey Siri thing because raw specs alone are no longer enough to base their marketing on. It's like cars, where the presence of smartphone options can make or break the deal.
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We have our share of those particular users here as well. I mean, tech.slashdot.org is pretty okay and I like it here. But those Apple fanboys, shiiieieeeeet do they get under my skin. Those pasty-white hipster monkey felchers ought to be taught a lesson.
Okay everybody with mod points, go to apple.slashdot.org and BURN IT TO THE GROUND!
[quote]Commuters armed with mobile mapping apps, route-following Lyft and Uber drivers, and software-optimized truckers can all act with a more perfect selfishness.[/quote]
Selfishness? Just because people are using the information that's available to them? Perhaps the government should start planning transportation according to smart people instead of sheeps. Madness, to accuse people of selfishness when it's obviously lack of planning that's the problem.
I'm not saying that building more roads is the solution. Lots of governments are about to go bankrupt on road maintenance alone. However I think technology can save us here. When I was young, I thought we'd have special equipment alongside roads, so we'd have self-driving cars. But that hasn't happened, and tech companies are now fixing this problem themselves, using AI to drive on imperfect roads.
Thank you Mozilla. Firefox and Safari are the browsers who look like they care about privacy, and they're currently my choices.
Ah... I was completely focused on desktop usage -- a rackmounted version would of course be extremely valuable.
Very cool, but I have to admit that I'm 100% on laptop nowadays. I either work at the client site, or in my own office, and decided that I'd rather maintain one laptop instead of two desktops. With USB-C, you basically turn monitors into docks. It's just one or two cables and you go. No UPS necessary with a laptop.
It's too expensive to fill the purpose intended
I've had one, the 2013 model. I bought it with student discount for 934 euros, sold it 4 years later for 500 euros. That machine cost me 110 euros (US$ 135) per year. I found this truly incredible.
Now that doesn't work for all models. I've incurred a huge 800 euro loss on a 15" MacBook Pro that was bought for a project that was canceled after a couple of months. So it only seems to work for the fast-moving budget MacBooks. But the Air specifically was/is hugely popular.
Wow, thanks for the tip! I've been dying to get back into reading but hadn't found anything awesome. Thanks!
I've read and re-read all of Banks' "Culture" books. It's one of the few where you get to know extremely powerful AIs as characters. They play a real role in the books, sometimes even more so than the meatbags.
I'm an iOS developer and it's handled as follows.
The graphics toolkit is called UIKit. All stuff on the screen (buttons, textfields, everything) descends from a class called UIView. The screen itself is a view, let's call it the main view.
So anyway, all UIView instances have four anchors (top/bottom/left/right). You can hang these anchors to other anchors, to the edge of the main view, or to the safeAreaLayoutGuide of the main view. And that safeAreaLayoutGuide is the biggest square area of the main view. Meaning, the bottom of the notch is basically the top of the safeAreaLayoutGuide.
That's all there is to it.
Where I do see a problem, is that some Android phones have very small notches, just covering a camera. If you use the iOS approach, you'll have a lot of wasted space.
Heck, Apple is so embarrassed by their smartwatch sales numbers
I find that hard to believe. Horace Dedieu of Asymco estimates that Apple is now the biggest watchmaker in the world, overtaking Rolex during the last quarter of 2017.
http://www.asymco.com/2017/09/...
Decently quick update to Safari and the OS from Apple. However Firefox had already updated. Loving it more and more :)
Big problem with "stopping sex trafficking" is that you'd have to have reliable numbers before and after the attempt to stop it. Unfortunately, there's a whole industry (both inside and outside of police) who earn their money dealing with sex trafficking. On top of that, it's hard to challenge those numbers, because you don't want to be that person.
So any and all news coming from police about sex trafficking numbers is suspect to me.
Mod parent up. It's this stuff why I am visiting Slashdot for over 18 years now.
The same thing can be said for day trading in individual shares, options, et cetera. What determines the price of a share, if there isn't any news? Noise. They're trading on noise. And now there's suddenly a trend, and most follow it.
Contact lenses aren't classified as a medical device in Europe, you can get them over the counter in any drugstore. I don't see how this is a problem.
The real problem is some dumb journalist drumming up tension by inventing a doctor.
When it come to places, anime is a very accurate depiction of real life Japan
So the school can be a very accurate depiction, while the tentacle monster enthousiastically making love to the pretty school teacher is less accurate? Damn.
I would not attempt to train them yourself. Because now, their success or failure is yours. Just find a good training vendor, and run them through it.
"They're turking our jerbs
That had me laughing out loud...
I agree on the snowflake thing. Got a colleague right now who is a 2nd generation immigrant, and actually derides immigrant colleagues. It's a sight to see. Or actually it isn't, and sometimes I just say "Could we keep things civil here?". Which does seem to help.
I'm no social justice warrior at all, but this is incredibly generalizing. It just completely depends on the people involved. It sounds like you had a bad experience once, and then assumed it's the same everywhere.
It's not. I've worked with women in teams that resulted in an unpleasant work environment. And I've worked with women in teams that resulted in a great project.
EVs should stand on their own in the market or not exist.
You didn't say why, though.
Ah yes, immediately follow up with Siri is probably the fastest way. Thanks!
Perhaps I wrote my post poorly, but you're the only one who got it -- I wasn't looking for a scheduled way, I was looking for: "don't disturb for the coming hour".
Usually I've got an iPhone (I'm an iOS developer) but I've got a Nexus 5 as well. There's one feature I miss, and that's to turn on the Do Not Disturb mode for a set time. For example, you walk into a meeting, and turn on Do Not Disturb for 1 hour.
iPhones don't have that, it's an on/off thing and I'm _very_ likely to turn it on, and then forget to turn it off.
I bet there's a jailbreak app for that.
It's not the only thing, of course -- if you look at the iMac Pro page on the Apple website, the first thing they mention, is "18 cores, power to the pro".
But I think they mention the whole Hey Siri thing because raw specs alone are no longer enough to base their marketing on. It's like cars, where the presence of smartphone options can make or break the deal.
The 2012 Mac Pro must be the last mac where you could build in such a (rare!) internal UPS. This is not a drawback for anyone but you :D
> It deciphers the Hey Siri! Phrase on-chip
Do we know whether the pharase is hard-coded? Can we change it to, say, "Hail Satan" or something?