Some of us actually do Photoshop / Premiere / Maya / etc on MBPs (they're 'professional' programs to be run on 'professional' hardware). Not all of existence is programming....
Of course, Apple apparently thinks more like you than like myself. I suspect they're just waiting for my generation to die off or at least degenerate into iPad users and then... world domination.
Same here. You can take my 17 inch MBP away from my cold, dead hands. And, at the rate that it is chugging along with the rate that I'm falling apart, that might well happen......
My brother lives on 73rd in Ballard - he gets 5 up / down on a business line. It's expensive, but so is the rest of Ballard. He justifies by telling me he doesn't have try to drive to work all that often (he's a programmer). I'm pretty sure it's CenturyLink.
This isn't about professionals. Apple missed that boat awhile back. Professionals need a decent keyboard. Ooops. Professionals need computing horsepower. Not quite oops but certainly nothing high end about the presumed stats. And don't talk to me about soldering RAM on the motherboard.
Professionals need ports. More than one or two. Dongles are for dorks. Professionals need batteries. Professionals need screens that do not double as a mirror. Nor do they need 3D touch or the latest silly gizmo thingy that Apple dreamed up.
Professionals DON'T need super thin. Professionals are strong. They can cart around a few extra ounces. Triple shot 16 oz mochas go a long way. As long as they can get their work done, we're happy. Professionals actually need a decent graphics system.
And for the love of God, bring back the 17 inch MacBook Pro.
Given the negative cachet that nuclear power has these days, using a reactor to power a cruise ship would be a PR nightmare. Might as well just paint a huge sign on the hull that says "Radiation! Stay Away!".
I like Chromebook because they are simple, inexpensive, and are harbingers of what's to come--namely, all of our comings and goings will be on the Web.
Come now. Anyone with an Internet connection is ALREADY brainwashed vis a vis Google. Except for us curmudgeons, the vast majority of the planet thinks that the Internet IS some unholy amalgamation of Google and Facebook.
That was the "ethics review committee". It actually had a number of ethicists in it. (Why is Firefox trying to change this to 'theists'? Does it know something?)
Na, all you would would make is a gooey mess. The reason that we aren't seven feet tall, have proportions of a Greek god(dess)**, live forever, are immune to radiation, disease, pop under ads and Internet Trolls is because life is a compromise. What works in one environment doesn't work in others.
You might get an ADD, autism, depression and psychosis resistant brain and find you ended up with a clone of Pee Wee Herman.
Careful what you ask for, you might get it.
** Or whatever your ideal body form might be. And no, we don't really want the specifics.
They aren't being altruistic at all. They are figuring out what the likely costs are and putting it into the vehicle's price tag. Just like they do for everything else.
Yes, what the hell does 'correlated with constellations' mean? Just another example of taking random data sets and finding some sort of 'correlation' and then assuming causation.
Further, the constellations that we westerners talk about were developed by Greek / Roman / Arabic folk lore. The Chinese had their own set.
I rather doubt the Mayans studied classical Greek civilization.
The author has a terminal case of Star Trekitis. He assumes since we can make a fireproof building, we don't need firefighters. We won't need police because the Internet of Things can monitor everything.
He's never met Murphy. It isn't at all clear that he even understands how to turn his TV off.
Any time you needed a short term bit of coherent light. Activating a product. Cutting a hole in something. Lighting up a sign. Blowing something up (always a favorite).
The FAA has managed to bobble the entry of UAVs into the real world. The underlying problem is this: The FAA controls a concept called the National Airspace System (NAS). This has evolved since around the 1930's and has managed a phenomenal degree of success in terms of aviation safety. In terms of efficiency, organization and ability to adjust to new technologies - not so much.
Up until UAVs wandered into the radar, the FAA mostly worked with manufacturers and commercial entities that understood lawyers, meetings, minutia and 1000 page densely typed technical documents. The hoi polli of general aviation was ignored in as much as was possible, they only represented a few thousand people. Now, the likelihood of millions of annoying little things running around in the Sacred Airspace became more and more real as DJI kept pumping out thousands and thousands of Phantoms. A few of which managed not to crash into the ground in the first 15 minutes.
The media got into the act and now everything that used to be a UFO (including plastic bags) is now a drone. Instant terror. Instant headlines. Instant advertising dollars. Add a Congress member who got a complaint that their second cousin saw a drone looking at a 15 year old girl from 1000 feet away last night and you are getting close to the Perfect Storm.
Coupled with the FAA being hobbled by a previous congressional mandate not to mess with hobby aircraft (which, by and large, managed to organize and control themselves much like amateur radio) and some of the traditional aircraft manufacturers seeing another market to get into (and keep others out of)
and you have the mess that we are currently going through.
It will probably get cleaned up to some extent fairly soon.
In the FAA's defense, they are overseeing a paradigm shift from thousands of aircraft of known provenance piloted by persons with demonstrated skills to a playing field consisting of millions of little tiny things (who can, nonetheless, fly several miles around and several thousand feet high) piloted by someone whose technical prowess may be limited to tying their shoes. It's not a pretty sight.
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Some of us actually do Photoshop / Premiere / Maya / etc on MBPs (they're 'professional' programs to be run on 'professional' hardware). Not all of existence is programming....
Of course, Apple apparently thinks more like you than like myself. I suspect they're just waiting for my generation to die off or at least degenerate into iPad users and then ... world domination.
Or something like that.
Kids these days.
Same here. You can take my 17 inch MBP away from my cold, dead hands. And, at the rate that it is chugging along with the rate that I'm falling apart, that might well happen......
My brother lives on 73rd in Ballard - he gets 5 up / down on a business line. It's expensive, but so is the rest of Ballard. He justifies by telling me he doesn't have try to drive to work all that often (he's a programmer). I'm pretty sure it's CenturyLink.
This isn't about professionals. Apple missed that boat awhile back. Professionals need a decent keyboard. Ooops. Professionals need computing horsepower. Not quite oops but certainly nothing high end about the presumed stats. And don't talk to me about soldering RAM on the motherboard.
Professionals need ports. More than one or two. Dongles are for dorks. Professionals need batteries. Professionals need screens that do not double as a mirror. Nor do they need 3D touch or the latest silly gizmo thingy that Apple dreamed up.
Professionals DON'T need super thin. Professionals are strong. They can cart around a few extra ounces. Triple shot 16 oz mochas go a long way. As long as they can get their work done, we're happy. Professionals actually need a decent graphics system.
And for the love of God, bring back the 17 inch MacBook Pro.
Gotta go. Nurse says its time for morning meds.
At least smallpox doesn't always cause permanent brain damage.
The newly wed and the nearly dead .....
Given the negative cachet that nuclear power has these days, using a reactor to power a cruise ship would be a PR nightmare. Might as well just paint a huge sign on the hull that says "Radiation! Stay Away!".
According to the site, it's only going 2kts, so you're going to have to look at it for quite some time at that level of resolution.....
Been there, done that.
There is even some company trying to make money by attaching their own weather stations to commercial planes. Too lazy to look it up.
Aliens. I'm not saying it was aliens, but.
I like Chromebook because they are simple, inexpensive, and are harbingers of what's to come--namely, all of our comings and goings will be on the Web.
All your base are belong to us.
Come now. Anyone with an Internet connection is ALREADY brainwashed vis a vis Google. Except for us curmudgeons, the vast majority of the planet thinks that the Internet IS some unholy amalgamation of Google and Facebook.
Yeah, Randall probably thinks it means "Angry Raptors" and is hiding under the table.
You know, that doesn't help a bit.
That was the "ethics review committee". It actually had a number of ethicists in it. (Why is Firefox trying to change this to 'theists'? Does it know something?)
Na, all you would would make is a gooey mess. The reason that we aren't seven feet tall, have proportions of a Greek god(dess)**, live forever, are immune to radiation, disease, pop under ads and Internet Trolls is because life is a compromise. What works in one environment doesn't work in others.
You might get an ADD, autism, depression and psychosis resistant brain and find you ended up with a clone of Pee Wee Herman.
Careful what you ask for, you might get it.
** Or whatever your ideal body form might be. And no, we don't really want the specifics.
They aren't being altruistic at all. They are figuring out what the likely costs are and putting it into the vehicle's price tag. Just like they do for everything else.
Yes, what the hell does 'correlated with constellations' mean? Just another example of taking random data sets and finding some sort of 'correlation' and then assuming causation.
Further, the constellations that we westerners talk about were developed by Greek / Roman / Arabic folk lore. The Chinese had their own set.
I rather doubt the Mayans studied classical Greek civilization.
Poor kid, he looks totally dorked in a suit.
The author has a terminal case of Star Trekitis. He assumes since we can make a fireproof building, we don't need firefighters. We won't need police because the Internet of Things can monitor everything.
He's never met Murphy. It isn't at all clear that he even understands how to turn his TV off.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I wouldn't mind a hot pizza.
"Middle School Teachers Discovered Supporting Mysterious Al Gebra Network! Entire Courses Devoted to Brainwashing!"
Next week's headline on CNN.
"Finger's gonna kill me."
This is the Daily Mail. I don't think this quite gets to the 'professional journalism' level.
Any time you needed a short term bit of coherent light. Activating a product. Cutting a hole in something. Lighting up a sign. Blowing something up (always a favorite).
Holographic Storage!!!! I win!!!!
Oh. Wait.
The FAA has managed to bobble the entry of UAVs into the real world. The underlying problem is this: The FAA controls a concept called the National Airspace System (NAS). This has evolved since around the 1930's and has managed a phenomenal degree of success in terms of aviation safety. In terms of efficiency, organization and ability to adjust to new technologies - not so much.
Up until UAVs wandered into the radar, the FAA mostly worked with manufacturers and commercial entities that understood lawyers, meetings, minutia and 1000 page densely typed technical documents. The hoi polli of general aviation was ignored in as much as was possible, they only represented a few thousand people. Now, the likelihood of millions of annoying little things running around in the Sacred Airspace became more and more real as DJI kept pumping out thousands and thousands of Phantoms. A few of which managed not to crash into the ground in the first 15 minutes.
The media got into the act and now everything that used to be a UFO (including plastic bags) is now a drone. Instant terror. Instant headlines. Instant advertising dollars. Add a Congress member who got a complaint that their second cousin saw a drone looking at a 15 year old girl from 1000 feet away last night and you are getting close to the Perfect Storm.
Coupled with the FAA being hobbled by a previous congressional mandate not to mess with hobby aircraft (which, by and large, managed to organize and control themselves much like amateur radio) and some of the traditional aircraft manufacturers seeing another market to get into (and keep others out of)
and you have the mess that we are currently going through.
It will probably get cleaned up to some extent fairly soon.
In the FAA's defense, they are overseeing a paradigm shift from thousands of aircraft of known provenance piloted by persons with demonstrated skills to a playing field consisting of millions of little tiny things (who can, nonetheless, fly several miles around and several thousand feet high) piloted by someone whose technical prowess may be limited to tying their shoes. It's not a pretty sight.