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22.4 sounds utterly ridiculous. Bass is omnidirectional, so the .4 is largely pointless, and 22 speakers in a room sounds like an impossible nightmare for the average consumer to set up and an inevitable mess of diffuse confusion and comb filtering in terms of actual delivery. I hope you wouldn't expect content creators to mix 22 spatial channels, either - 5 is painful enough.

Even so, that doesn't stop one human helping the computer to understand, and thus replace x more humans.

Computers don't need to understand natural language, they just need a little guidance towards what the data means. You can train a neural network, or you can just write some solution-specific code. A lot of people are not that hard to replace.

RTJ also have an established brand - I can tell you 100% I only know of them because of their previous marketing, I've maybe heard one song. It's like how Radiohead did a pay-what-you-like for their album and it came out being viable, it only works because of their previous commercial success through more traditional routes. If they'd self-produced and made Pablo Honey PWYL they'd probably be unheard of.

This is about a decade earlier, though.. would it have been the same?

Yeah, that protest business was extremely shady. According to KSO it was approved previously (as noted, they applied on Jan 9th for the protest to take place on the 20th) and approval was revoked at the last minute and taken to the Supreme Court at the request of the commissioner, giving the protest group in question about 1 hour to submit those previously unrequested documents (which didn't need to be submitted for any of their previous protests, somehow).

> "Uber for planes" would be highly illegal, and everyone involved would get arrested.

Unless, of course, it was actually Uber doing it.. then it would suddenly be made legal in 90% of the places it operated and have a blind eye turned to it in the other 10%. I saw a ton of gypsy cab services get shut down in my city before Uber came along.

Hmm.. the point of it, or result of it?

While in practice that may be mostly true, it's not necessarily a fact. Unbalanced microphones can and do exist.

It's not a generic "defiance to authority", as I understand it's more like anyone trying to exert any kind of authority over you is bound to generate a kneejerk negative reaction, big issue or small, reasonable or not. Could be a parent, supervisor, partner, teacher, cop, etc. ODD is not related to an actual battle against your oppressors.

I think it's more that your comment seemed to be intentionally facetious and over the top..

Yep, our tech guys are constantly looking for ways to implement things that may or may not be useful, or even understood; we've just gotta be able to say we have the latest in machine learned blockchain-based buzzword doodads to constantly reinforce our reputation as the most "high tech" organisation in our sector.

I've witnessed either the act or aftermath of several assaults on people living in homeless shelters, usually by other tenants, not to mention plenty of theft (one guy even took my CD wallet). Much of it was reported to staff but not one incident was reported to the police - it endangers the shelter's funding and upsets the residents. Homeless people are typically quite wary of law enforcement (if not due to prior harassment, then because "don't snitch" is firmly reinforced by their peers).

I wouldn't trust any police stat relating to homeless people - the notion that police even care about these people when they more often than not see them as the problem is.. odd at best. I'm really not sure where you're getting this idea that shelters are such wonderful, warm, safe places.

"..remember iPhone 5 is 5 year old phone, which will get new version of OS, not just security update"

Yes, and remember that Apple intentionally writes OS updates that will run slower on their older devices, thus achieving almost the same thing but slightly less blatantly.

Serious question as two people now have mentioned Bootcamp "drivers", and I've only ever gone the other way (Hackintosh) - why do you need Apple drivers to install Windows on what seems to be a perfectly normal x86 machine?

Does it run the same OS, software, etc as before, though?

Wow, that's.. disgusting. And also damaging to their own hiring practices, by the sound of it.

> videographers, musicians, illustrators, photographers, graphic designers

I've worked in or with at least three of those. 8GB and integrated GPU is not going to cut it for a decent load on any of the basic apps.. Pro Tools will eat 8GB easily on a basic mix, Ableton will have you track freezing on and off all day. A lot of people in the audio industry went nuts when Apple stopped letting you add RAM because you could hardly have a serious production machine without maxing it out. After Effects, C4D, Blender, etc. will be rendering for a week straight (if at all). Photoshop will grind to a halt trying to work on anything of reasonably high res, especially with more than a few layers. Ever sat there watching a progress bar for a minute or two just to crop an image? That's what you're proposing as "well spec'd".

Your point about non creative professionals does hold water, though - that's the main audience IMO, the tech clueless types who are nevertheless obsessed with being involved with a "premium" brand. And yep, if you just want a couple spreadsheets, some social media, and maybe some reports, they're spec'd phenomenally for that kind of thing.

Yeah, in a similar situation right now and I find the DLL thing is relatively unknown and incredibly powerful if used well. Recently this 'robotics' evangelist keeps trying to rope us into spending a few mil on his automation and I keep showing him up by automating the same stuff right out of Excel for little to nothing.

Two words: Corporate IT.

Another two: Onboarding Process.

Almost all of these are done or do-able, though. They're just not right there on the surface.

Both Python and R can be used in Excel via several addons.

Python:

http://www.python-excel.org/

https://www.xlwings.org/

https://datanitro.com/

R:

http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download.html

https://bert-toolkit.com/

However, officially MS have chosen to move ahead with Javascript for add-ins and VBA-like automation:

https://dev.office.com/docs/add-ins/develop/understanding-th...

http://rockthecode.io/blog/javascript-and-excel/

As for SQL, you can use Data Connections from the GUI or ADO with JET/ACE in VBA to query Excel sheets, CSVs, etc as you please.

Regex can be used with the VBScript.Regexp object, but it's a slightly funky (perl-like) syntax and not a great implementation.

Sounds absolutely incredible. Any idea if they've released the impulses? I couldn't find anything on the IoS site.

Er.. so what does a list of notifications look like, especially iconised, and how/why should I intuitively know that?

Yeah.. and if it weren't for unions most of us would've been working from the age of 7 or so in a country with no safety regulations. Imagine how competitive those businesses would be though, oh boy! Sorry if the unions in your particular area/industry don't live up to your expectations, but unions have done far more good than bad, and it's been over a lot longer than decades.

Ugh, yes. At the beginning of last winter, one manager INSISTED on coming in with this really horrible, wracking, deep cough, and the resultant spread managed to take out about half the management team and a ton of floor staff variously over the next month or so (including myself - how grateful I was). I'm sure it was totally worth it for the one or two meetings they attended..

"activists and other people who are doing illegal stuff"

Does this actually read how you intended it to, or was there an invisible comma/parenthesis there?

Ha ha, so very clever. Please don't do this here.

Needs more D3..

Average Joe will pick convenience over security every time, unless it's such an absolute shambles that they actually fear (or have been convinced they should fear) using it. Not to mention the already-formed habit/association of "hey, I'm paying for this, better whip out my card".