In software development, it's called vaporware if you're announcing how great the shit is that you're going to develop. VW is behind the pack at the moment, that's why they're blabbering about this, in my opinion.
Right now, I'm driving a Renault Zoe. This is an extremely practical car. The NEDC range is 400 km (250 miles), which realistically is 275 km (170 miles). VW is getting closer, but AFAIK right now does not have anything like that.
Get the laptop you like, but get one with USB-C. Reasoning as follows;
I really consider the keyboard of most laptops to be "good enough". Would I want to work a full day on it? I don't want to, but in a pinch I could. I'd rather walk up to my desk at work or in my private office. With USB-C, you hook up a single cable and everything is connected: power, monitor, mouse, and a decent keyboard that's good on the ergonomics.
For important passwords at home I have the passwords in a file on a removeable thumb drive
Pffff amateur.
I have my important passwords engraved on the business end of my 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun. Should the security be an issue, I only have to pull the trigger and bury the body in my back yard.
Just bought an Intel NUC with a Kaby Lake i3 inside, which can do 4K via its HDMI 2.0. I'd love to bring it back and get an AMD system. But nowhere in The Fine Article it says something about HDMI 2.0, is this in the cards?
Well, I think they have their own plans. You can now order the Nissan Leaf with a 40 kWh capacity, and next year, they claim to have a 60 kWh for sale.
So I'm from The Netherlands and I've had the chance to drive a Renault Zoe now, for a couple of times. Its range is 400 km (250 mi). My commute is 66 km (41 mi) one-way. Parts of that, I can drive 130 km (81 mi) per hour, so I turn off "eco mode" and just set the cruise control to 136 km/h or so. So if you drive like that, the effective range in a modest Autumn is about 180 km, or much more if you stick to 100 km/h (60 mi/h). With this range, I have no range anxiety whatsoever. I just don't give a shit and drive. And it's very silent inside. Personally, I think it's magnificent.
Can anyone comment on whether the Renault Zoe is available in the US? I guess you guys just get the Bolt, right?
I'm seeing some negativity here, but I very much enjoy this season. It's Star Trek, but for once its crew is not infallible and almost-perfect. Nope, these people are damaged goods. Captain Lorca has been trapped, tortured, had to abandon his crew, etc. So he is VERY focused, to the point where you not only think "wow, this is a tough S.O.B." and then continues into the territory of eye-for-an-eye.
I don't much like their Spore Drive, but the dark and serious atmosphere makes it worth it, IMHO.
Basically they got greedy. They wanted dragnet-like capabilities, and they were like "well fuck these civilians". They went too far, and now found out about that Dutch saying that says: "trust arrives walking, and departs on horseback".
And now nobody trusts these three letter agencies anymore. And now they're whining like toddlers, saying "this is a huge, huge problem" when in fact they created the problem themselves.
I see Firefox didn't do so well in this test. However, I'm back nowadays on Firefox (from Safari) on both my Mac and the media PC that's running Windows 10. Linux only runs on my servers, which don't usuall run a GUI.
Seriously, you may want to give it another shot. The current beta has the new user interface, which is very sleek. Also, the're revamping the plugin architecture. Although it sucks for existing plugins, I have no doubt a more simple plugin arch is greatly going to benefit stability.
Plus they've got this multi-process thing fully operational now, and although it's a behind-the-scenes thing, my experience so far is pretty good.
I've never understood this, perhaps smokers can answer this.
I think almost everybody is raised by their parents to throw garbage in the bin, instead of on the street. So why do smokers discard their cigarettes on the ground?
"It's backup day today so I'm pissed off. Being the BOFH, however, does have it's advantages. I reassign null to be the tape device - it's so much more economical on my time as I don't have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. And it speeds up backups too, so it can't be all bad can it? Of course not."
Shake your head and wake up man, you're in the Apple bubble. Swift will never be used much on non-Apple platforms
I'm afraid it is you who seem to be very much asleep.
Wellll.... I very much enjoy my hacking in Swift. But I don't give it a big chance of taking off among the open source crowd. Yeah it runs on Linux, and I love it for that. But I think we'll see adoption like Mono: used here and there, but not in any major way.
That said, Swift strikes a number of very nice balances in my opinion. I really like the expressiveness of the language, especially how easy it is to throw in some.filter {} ,.map {}, and what have you.
When I need to write for iPhone, the meat of the code gets written in C or C++
Then I wonder what you write, because the meat for most apps basically is the interface. For which Apple gives you a nice framework, UIKit. Are you saying that you avoid UIKit? Not trying to be sarcastic or anything, just genuinly curious what kind of apps you build.
So please note I'm not trolling in any way or shape. But in this particular case, on this particular site, I think it's a great idea.
The Pirate Bay has been sailing strong for all these years, so the money has got to come from somewhere. Any source of donations will be quickly cut off by the establishment, and people donating will have to fear for their anonymity. Ads will probably not be very effective, since the average visitor will probably have an ad blocker.
Reminds me of the joke that "Klingons do not "release" software. Klingon software escapes, leaving a bloody trail of design engineers and quality assurance testers in its wake."
"Today, I am to do battle with this book. I will mercilessly stab the book with my pen, until it dies the final death. On the way to Kahless, it will bleed the appropriate text onto its page-like corpse."
I wonder how big the step would be to get that robot to make a suture, sewing skin instead of a t-shirt.
Two years ago, I had a bite at a restaurant but the meal didn't sit so well. I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and for some reason lost consciousness. I got to my senses and discovered I was bleeding profusely from an actually very small cut in my forehead. I went to the doc next morning and he stitched the cut.
Two weeks later, he removed the stitches and told me he was quite happy with the result. He mentioned that the cut was actually not a straight cut, but a "hook" which apparently is difficult to cleanly close without later showing an obvious scar.
From the summary: "uses machine vision to spot and adjust to distortions in the fabric". It would be very interesting to know whether it could lay a stitch to prevent scar tissue.
Features uncommon elsewhere include native snapshotting, encryption, and error correction.
I don't think error correction is actually part of it. Perhaps the filesystem data itself is protected, that could be true. However for the user data integrity, Apple are trusting the hardware to do the right thing. That might be fine for their SSDs, which they control themselves.
But I'm a little bit disappointed that checksumming isn't present, because I'd love to be able to just ram that filesystem on external sticks and harddrives, and know that my data is checksummed.
When you start debugging in Xcode, the TouchBar changes and you get buttons for step in/over/out, plus continue running. However since I consider myself in the high-risk RSI category, I use an external keyboard (Kinesis Freestyle 2) and I know the shortcut keys by heart now, but that took a loooong time since I'm not in the debugger every day.
TouchID: In and of itself, it's not bad either. However when you use a password manager, it goes from bad to great because you use it ALL the time.
I do agree with the writer of the article about the new iMac Pro. Why didn't that new external keyboard with touchbar and fingerprint reader? I hope it's some technical/safety reason, because I think it's weird that for such a machine, this tech isn't included.
I'd love TouchID to work on my Linux servers, in combination with sudo. I mean why not? Very convenient.
Yeah, I have to admit that my comment was a bit flippant. Who cares what someone else watches, right? However check out this quote from the article:
But! Sling Orange and Sling Blue have different channel lineups (ESPN is on Orange, not Blue, while Orange lacks FX, Bravo and any locals). For full coverage, you can subscribe to both for $40. But! Have kids? You'll want the Kids Extra package for another $5 per month. Love ESPNU? Grab that $5 per month sports package. HBO? $15 per month, please. Presto, you're up to $65 per month.
Maybe it's me, but that whole paragraph exudes something hopeless. It's probably me, though.
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In software development, it's called vaporware if you're announcing how great the shit is that you're going to develop. VW is behind the pack at the moment, that's why they're blabbering about this, in my opinion.
Right now, I'm driving a Renault Zoe. This is an extremely practical car. The NEDC range is 400 km (250 miles), which realistically is 275 km (170 miles). VW is getting closer, but AFAIK right now does not have anything like that.
Get the laptop you like, but get one with USB-C. Reasoning as follows;
I really consider the keyboard of most laptops to be "good enough". Would I want to work a full day on it? I don't want to, but in a pinch I could. I'd rather walk up to my desk at work or in my private office. With USB-C, you hook up a single cable and everything is connected: power, monitor, mouse, and a decent keyboard that's good on the ergonomics.
For important passwords at home I have the passwords in a file on a removeable thumb drive
Pffff amateur.
I have my important passwords engraved on the business end of my 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun. Should the security be an issue, I only have to pull the trigger and bury the body in my back yard.
Just bought an Intel NUC with a Kaby Lake i3 inside, which can do 4K via its HDMI 2.0. I'd love to bring it back and get an AMD system. But nowhere in The Fine Article it says something about HDMI 2.0, is this in the cards?
You drive a few hundred miles daily? Yeah no, electric is not going to cut it. Unless it's a Tesla with the biggest range, which you can supercharge.
Huh I didn't know about the Renault/Nissan corporate cooperation. Thanks for that (and for all your other usually pretty good comments).
Well, I think they have their own plans. You can now order the Nissan Leaf with a 40 kWh capacity, and next year, they claim to have a 60 kWh for sale.
So I'm from The Netherlands and I've had the chance to drive a Renault Zoe now, for a couple of times. Its range is 400 km (250 mi). My commute is 66 km (41 mi) one-way. Parts of that, I can drive 130 km (81 mi) per hour, so I turn off "eco mode" and just set the cruise control to 136 km/h or so. So if you drive like that, the effective range in a modest Autumn is about 180 km, or much more if you stick to 100 km/h (60 mi/h). With this range, I have no range anxiety whatsoever. I just don't give a shit and drive. And it's very silent inside. Personally, I think it's magnificent.
Can anyone comment on whether the Renault Zoe is available in the US? I guess you guys just get the Bolt, right?
I'm seeing some negativity here, but I very much enjoy this season. It's Star Trek, but for once its crew is not infallible and almost-perfect. Nope, these people are damaged goods. Captain Lorca has been trapped, tortured, had to abandon his crew, etc. So he is VERY focused, to the point where you not only think "wow, this is a tough S.O.B." and then continues into the territory of eye-for-an-eye.
I don't much like their Spore Drive, but the dark and serious atmosphere makes it worth it, IMHO.
Basically they got greedy. They wanted dragnet-like capabilities, and they were like "well fuck these civilians". They went too far, and now found out about that Dutch saying that says: "trust arrives walking, and departs on horseback".
And now nobody trusts these three letter agencies anymore. And now they're whining like toddlers, saying "this is a huge, huge problem" when in fact they created the problem themselves.
> These models don't need to be "best sellers"
No, but I saw a recently bought Mac Pro being booted up. With Yosemite (OS X 10.14). That thing had been sitting in a box somewhere for THREE years.
They don't need to be best sellers but I don't have to tell you that for computer hardware, the above situation is complete bonkers.
Really curious whether my girlfriend's iPhone 5 will get an update. It's now 5 years old, and didn't get the latest iOS 11 update from last month.
I see Firefox didn't do so well in this test. However, I'm back nowadays on Firefox (from Safari) on both my Mac and the media PC that's running Windows 10. Linux only runs on my servers, which don't usuall run a GUI.
Seriously, you may want to give it another shot. The current beta has the new user interface, which is very sleek. Also, the're revamping the plugin architecture. Although it sucks for existing plugins, I have no doubt a more simple plugin arch is greatly going to benefit stability.
Plus they've got this multi-process thing fully operational now, and although it's a behind-the-scenes thing, my experience so far is pretty good.
Give it a shot, I'd say.
I've never understood this, perhaps smokers can answer this.
I think almost everybody is raised by their parents to throw garbage in the bin, instead of on the street. So why do smokers discard their cigarettes on the ground?
"It's backup day today so I'm pissed off. Being the BOFH, however, does have it's advantages. I reassign null to be the tape device - it's so much more economical on my time as I don't have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. And it speeds up backups too, so it can't be all bad can it? Of course not."
Simon Travaglia
Shake your head and wake up man, you're in the Apple bubble. Swift will never be used much on non-Apple platforms
I'm afraid it is you who seem to be very much asleep.
Wellll.... I very much enjoy my hacking in Swift. But I don't give it a big chance of taking off among the open source crowd. Yeah it runs on Linux, and I love it for that. But I think we'll see adoption like Mono: used here and there, but not in any major way.
That said, Swift strikes a number of very nice balances in my opinion. I really like the expressiveness of the language, especially how easy it is to throw in some .filter {} , .map {}, and what have you.
When I need to write for iPhone, the meat of the code gets written in C or C++
Then I wonder what you write, because the meat for most apps basically is the interface. For which Apple gives you a nice framework, UIKit. Are you saying that you avoid UIKit? Not trying to be sarcastic or anything, just genuinly curious what kind of apps you build.
Information wants to be available at any price
No, information wants to be tied up and spanked.
So please note I'm not trolling in any way or shape. But in this particular case, on this particular site, I think it's a great idea.
The Pirate Bay has been sailing strong for all these years, so the money has got to come from somewhere. Any source of donations will be quickly cut off by the establishment, and people donating will have to fear for their anonymity. Ads will probably not be very effective, since the average visitor will probably have an ad blocker.
Reminds me of the joke that "Klingons do not "release" software. Klingon software escapes, leaving a bloody trail of design engineers and quality assurance testers in its wake."
I wonder if they'll find some Klingon texts.
"Today, I am to do battle with this book. I will mercilessly stab the book with my pen, until it dies the final death. On the way to Kahless, it will bleed the appropriate text onto its page-like corpse."
I wonder how big the step would be to get that robot to make a suture, sewing skin instead of a t-shirt.
Two years ago, I had a bite at a restaurant but the meal didn't sit so well. I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and for some reason lost consciousness. I got to my senses and discovered I was bleeding profusely from an actually very small cut in my forehead. I went to the doc next morning and he stitched the cut.
Two weeks later, he removed the stitches and told me he was quite happy with the result. He mentioned that the cut was actually not a straight cut, but a "hook" which apparently is difficult to cleanly close without later showing an obvious scar.
From the summary: "uses machine vision to spot and adjust to distortions in the fabric". It would be very interesting to know whether it could lay a stitch to prevent scar tissue.
Features uncommon elsewhere include native snapshotting, encryption, and error correction.
I don't think error correction is actually part of it. Perhaps the filesystem data itself is protected, that could be true. However for the user data integrity, Apple are trusting the hardware to do the right thing. That might be fine for their SSDs, which they control themselves.
But I'm a little bit disappointed that checksumming isn't present, because I'd love to be able to just ram that filesystem on external sticks and harddrives, and know that my data is checksummed.
I expected more, but in principe it's not bad.
When you start debugging in Xcode, the TouchBar changes and you get buttons for step in/over/out, plus continue running. However since I consider myself in the high-risk RSI category, I use an external keyboard (Kinesis Freestyle 2) and I know the shortcut keys by heart now, but that took a loooong time since I'm not in the debugger every day.
TouchID: In and of itself, it's not bad either. However when you use a password manager, it goes from bad to great because you use it ALL the time.
I do agree with the writer of the article about the new iMac Pro. Why didn't that new external keyboard with touchbar and fingerprint reader? I hope it's some technical/safety reason, because I think it's weird that for such a machine, this tech isn't included.
I'd love TouchID to work on my Linux servers, in combination with sudo. I mean why not? Very convenient.
Yeah, I have to admit that my comment was a bit flippant. Who cares what someone else watches, right? However check out this quote from the article:
But! Sling Orange and Sling Blue have different channel lineups (ESPN is on Orange, not Blue, while Orange lacks FX, Bravo and any locals). For full coverage, you can subscribe to both for $40. But! Have kids? You'll want the Kids Extra package for another $5 per month. Love ESPNU? Grab that $5 per month sports package. HBO? $15 per month, please. Presto, you're up to $65 per month.
Maybe it's me, but that whole paragraph exudes something hopeless. It's probably me, though.