Comment Re:Bout to find out (Score 4, Insightful) 16
You're going to find out they have a gigantic corporate bias in the search. It's not about pushing a political agenda, it's about making money. It's all about making money.
Comment Re:Yet another name for 800mg Motrin? (Score 1) 248
Well Played
Comment Re:Hopefully this is to fund Metal support (Score 1) 51
You act like I didn't RTFA before posting!! Well I had not!!
But seriously, this is great news.
Comment Hopefully this is to fund Metal support (Score 1) 51
Most of Blender works just great on Mac OS, what doesn't work well is rendering. It will do it, but not efficiently. Hopefully this is a move to fund development for Metal rendering support.
Submission + - Apple CEO Impressed by Remote Work, Sees Permanent Changes (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said he’s been impressed by employees’ ability to operate remotely and predicted that some new work habits will remain after the pandemic. During an interview at The Atlantic Festival on Monday, Cook said Apple created products including new Apple Watches and iPads that are launching on time this year, despite the need for most employees to work away from the office due to Covid-19.
Cook said he doesn’t believe Apple will “return to the way we were because we’ve found that there are some things that actually work really well virtually.” Cook said 10% to 15% of Apple employees have gone back to the office and he hopes the majority of staff can return to the company’s new campus in Silicon Valley sometime next year. The CEO said he goes into the office at different points during the week and he noted that remote work is “not like being together physically.” Working in the office sparks creativity such as during impromptu meetings, he added.
Cook said he doesn’t believe Apple will “return to the way we were because we’ve found that there are some things that actually work really well virtually.” Cook said 10% to 15% of Apple employees have gone back to the office and he hopes the majority of staff can return to the company’s new campus in Silicon Valley sometime next year. The CEO said he goes into the office at different points during the week and he noted that remote work is “not like being together physically.” Working in the office sparks creativity such as during impromptu meetings, he added.
Submission + - Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months (bbc.co.uk)
seoras writes: The mystery of why an entire village lost its broadband every morning at 7am was solved when engineers discovered an old television was to blame.
An unnamed householder in Aberhosan, Powys, was unaware the old set would emit a signal which would interfere with the entire village's broadband.
After 18 months engineers began an investigation after a cable replacement programme failed to fix the issue.
The embarrassed householder promised not to use the television again.
The village now has a stable broadband signal.
An unnamed householder in Aberhosan, Powys, was unaware the old set would emit a signal which would interfere with the entire village's broadband.
After 18 months engineers began an investigation after a cable replacement programme failed to fix the issue.
The embarrassed householder promised not to use the television again.
The village now has a stable broadband signal.
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 466
Dax? Certainly non-binary, arguably transgender.
Comment Re:open up mac os X to more systems if just HP / D (Score 1) 99
I agree with this. I work as a "creative" (commercial photography) and I keep nothing but the specific software I need on my machine's. All work files are kept on SSD's while in the field and dumped onto a RAID at the office. The computers themselves are kept clean free of anything that might degrade performance.
Comment Re:Your Macbook model can run El Capitan 10.11 (Score 1) 248
I recently sent an old Mac Book 7,1 to my mother-in-law. Ram upgraded to 6gb, solid state drive and OS X 10.10. It works great for light browsing, email and FaceTime.
Comment Re:HQ printer with archival inks on acid free pape (Score 1) 499
If you're not making money off it, a 3000 series epson is a better buy (and much smaller foot print). 4900 will last longer and be cheaper to operate in the long term, but you're looking at $3000-4000 in start up costs (at retail). You'd have to make a lot of prints, way more than 100's, to justify it. 3000 series can be had for $1500-2000 in start up costs.
Comment Re:Far Cry? (Score 1) 114
Oh man, I just watched the trailer for it. Looks soooooo bad.
Comment Re:Support was the biggest problem for Apple Serve (Score 1) 304
I always found the phone support was great. And on the two occasions I needed parts, they had them to me the next morning, all covered by apple care.
Comment Which one should you choose? (Score 2, Insightful) 379
Neither.
Comment Re:What if we could see the originals? (Score 1) 512
Food shots are retouched. But (at least here in the US) there are truth in advertising laws. So if you see a shot of a McDonalds hamburger, it made from the same ingredients and materials that you would get at the restaurant. The difference is that what you get at McD's has been slapped together by a line worker, while the photo-ed one was assembled by a food stylist who took their time and made it look edible (or as edible as a McDonalds burger can look).
Comment Re:Ethics of photomanipulation (Score 1) 512
Photojournalism and commercial photography are two completely different beasts. Without getting into any theoretical arguments about what is photographic truth, photojournalism tries to convey the facts of an event where as commercial photography want to convey an idea. Reality and truth don't matter. After over a decade in this business, more and more I think of it as image making through photographic processes.
And for the record every, and I mean EVERY photo you see in an ad, editorial spread, billboard etc... has been manipulated. This has been true since the dawn of photography. Even Ansel Adams would quite literally move boulders to get the shot he wanted. How is manipulating the scene before hand any different than doing it after.
