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I heard that and it was uncanny how much it sounded like ray porter to me

Well played, I searched the terms I used and immediately found the "logos" here.

I could see in a future where most cars are FOBs using a weaponized interference to prevent people from accessing their cars. An authoritarian regime might really enjoy that capability.

Indeed, Skeuomorphism was solving an actual real world problem of giving people analogies to physical objects. It's been vogue to hate it so long that we forget the challenges of software design that predecessors faced. There are a few strikingly bad choices here (mostly the drawer) but the buttons are all omnipresent and look familiar even if digital.

If you stuck the modern quick time interface in 90s, I imagine the disappearing buttons and positional play interface daunting. We've evolved as our literacy has evolved.

This reminds a lot of the hype around traffic signs and the font "Clearview" being better for driving. The data collected was the legibility of old signs vs new signs but never accounted for the control of replacing the worn/faded signs with new signs using the old font, or other types of signs.

Turns out it was simply replacement of old signs, and that Clearview actually had reduced legibility in negative-contrast (black on white, instead of white on green).

I'd bet that research would show something that the benefits of this come with cons.

As someone who lived in Eugene and now PDX, the model I advocate is the wagon spoke. You need to ferret the people between the large spaces as the population density is that of the Ukraine which presents little in the way of the geographic challenges we have here. Get people to the perimeters and in parking garages and then make it so they're able to use alternative transport. We won't be building fast rail between Portland, Salem and Eugene but we can certainly make it so you limit the amount of driving you need to perform.

Also its a bit of a misrepresentation of how the questions were framed as they weren't asked to evaluate if answers were bullshit but rather if they were profound or not. We're going in with the preset mind frame sussing out the bullshit answers as opposed to the more open-ended testing scenario.

Framing of questions always affects the outcome of answers.

Lastly, a few of these read like the Chopra quote generator. http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/

That's always been the kicker unless things have improved, I had a hackintosh for a short period but it borked when it came time for 10.x.x update. I decided Hackintosh life wasn't for me.

How much of a pain was it to install OS X?

The latest trends in Oregon have gone to breweries that aren't inherently IPA specialists. It's a niché but there's plenty of action but rough financially since Commons recently had to scale back. Right though there's more than a few: Cascade, De Garde, Upright, Ale Apothecary, Wolves and People, Logdans, Occidental, Yachats, Alesong, Viking Braggot, Monkless to name a few.

There's also a few breweries really upping their barrel aged game and pushing more less-common styles like Crux, Pfriem and Fort George. Honestly, it's better than it's ever been to be an non-IPA drinker. I'm a stouts / sours and Belgians guy and what's happening here is great.

Even San Diego, the one city that embraces IPAs more than Portland or Bend has a few like Lost Abbey that aren't IPA specialists.

We're starting to see a new wave of beer and it's becoming wonderfully diverse. The craft beer scene in Oregon tends to be a bit more forward but its spreading and with breweries like Brewery Vivant in Michigan or Black Project in Colorado, or older ones like Trinity in Colorado.

This sounds like a bit from a 90s shock comic, but coming from a guy who has a lot of scrutiny for his views, and pack of people looking to dislike him more, it's no surprise this bombed on twitter. Probably best to keep such thoughts off off social media but I don't think reservation is one of Mr Damore's strong points.

I like the false pretense for "neighborhood protection", when really this is a lowering bar for plate collection likely for more intrusive advertising. Even if you were able to pay cash or epay system obfuscate store purchases at a retailer, they could still nab your plates.

Really, if a criminal were to drive in and loot a house in your neighborhood, what self respecting criminal wouldn't use dummy plates or a lifted car to commit robberies and at least some sort of identity obfuscation. Let's not pretend this is a noble invention.

While out in public you may not have a right to privacy, there's certainly a level of general anonymity that most of us assume. While such plate reading technology has existed for some time, now it could be easily deployed by a overbearing ex-lover to know if/when person is home or worse, a hate group outside an abortion clinic.

File this under war on privacy to further usher in a technocratic hellscape future.

Indeed, there's a reason why tv networks have for decades chose "safe" tv that can be monetized and for a very long time chose to evade politics, see Smothers Brothers. It's easier to coax revenue from largely apolitical media.

Indeed, with Sass, just comment out what you don't need. I rarely use much beyond the grid and normalization, it nice as its a predictable setup that you can plug in front end devs, and almost everyone knows the media queries vars (if they don't, they can google them) and such.

It's not hard to use SRCSET to put WebP + JPEG2000 + JPEGXR images which covers Chrome, Safari and IE, and fallbacks for old browsers / FF. Hardly ideal but easy to get pretty good results.

While its the app is an interesting art piece or commentary on the way we consume disposable fluff content, The Atlantic seems to be,(excuse my language here) "getting up its own ass" about the significance of this app. I'd argue if the app offers purely disposable content, wouldn't the users find the app itself disposable? At least with other social networks, there's the "social" part that is somewhat meaningful to its users.

I'd beg to differ on the point of Pro-Video editors and musicians seeing as I've contracted for a few TV shows and am a hobbyist musician etc. It was a mediocre choice, if not poor choice:

Generally a TV Show workflow (since FCP X killed its user base) an Avid centric base. Editors grab all their footage off a central server to edit the down converts (1080p). SSD is great for a boot drive but you'll need hefty internal storage. Now you need to buy an expensive external solution. Also for same goes for Digital Musicians or recording, although the storage demands are quite a bit less.

The dual GPU setup was under-utilized and the consumer grade cards are far better for render assistance bang-for-buck. So much so that it was better just to upgrade GPUs with gaming cards. Notably, the Fire GLs are underperfomers for After Effects. Also Musicians get almost zero benefit from dual GPUs. It's unnecessary cost.

Since in Hollywood TV, you are contract you, you bring your own hardware. When USB 3.0 took off, most of my editor friends just grabbed USB 3.0 cards and popped them into the computers. Mixing guys tended to have a lot invested in PCIe audio interfaces for ProTools. A few friends had MPEG4 encoder accelerators which were great for quick encodes for dailies. I'm not sure what fantasy world Apple was in that small size of the Mac Pro 2013 mattered but post-guys set up shop for weeks at a time, and its easier to cart one heavy tower followed by monitors than a small computer with a box of dongles and misc items.

The friends I still keep in touch with in LA mostly have switched to Windows instead of going for the Mac Pro 2013. More bang for the book (time is money) and more performant. Anyhow, other than that I agree. just rerelease the 2012 with new innards and call it a day.

I just don't know how this could be provable? Either there's an OS level log that you're signing your life away on that is a huge privacy risk (and requires OS level engineering) or they're just guesstimating off data use. I can't see how they'd be able to differentiate from a hands free UX interaction from one done physically. Also, if in a car of multiple people, it begs the question who is responsible for using the phone? When traveling with friends/family/significant others/guests often we hand off our device for media usage.

I'd recommend a more neutral site than this, HeatSt.com is almost entirely far right op-ed publication.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/man-fined-dollar5...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-man-claims-state-...

This is pretty much to a t my thoughts on iTunes. iTunes Match is everything I want and need it to be for on-the-go but leaves me a with a bit to be desired elsewhere.

It's good enough for me, I've given up on syncing my music on iPhone (do still do local backups)...

One can hope, but will we hear about it?

Most of my downloads were of out of print / rare releases. Want the Oh My God CD Single that featured a few A Tribe Called Quest remixes? They had it. Want a Willie Hutch vinyl that never made it to CD? They had it. Wanted a Beatles album, specific release/print? They had it. Heard a punk 45 single from the late 70s? They had it.

As unsexy as the Mac Pro line was, all they needed to do was keep the latest round of I/O (SATA 3, followed by USB 3, then USB 3.1, ThunderBolt) and just updated CPUs and GPUs without bothering to change the form factor. I'm still rolling a 2008 Mac Pro heavily updated. As someone who contracted for 3 Hollywood shows, I can tell you everyone jumped Final Cut Pro X for Avid or Premier Pro. It was sad.

When they touted the Mac Pro 2013 as a computer you could carry to a set to do editing, a friend of my quipped "Clearly no one at Apple has any fucking idea how movies or TV show are made."

That said, as long time digital musician 10.9+ hasn't been a problem for Maschine, Ableton, Cubase or Logic. I still have soft synths that are nearly 10 years old from the first Intel mac days working just fine...

I wouldn't refer to the Cato Institute as anything but biased, as it's a neo-con libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Brothers but this particular study is fascinating simply because it IS a neo-con libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Brothers.

Anyone config apache locally by hand? Every year seems to be another game of "What do I have to re-enable for vhosts, php versions, etc".

The fascinating part is they're dropping support for a few boxes with no real logical cut off, prior were non-64 bit EFI machines, largely 2006 Mac models. Despite this, you can still install and run OS X rather smoothly on 2006 Mac Pros.

I have a 2008 Mac Pro, and probably will end just bypassing Apple's safe guards. You'd think it'd be not worth the effort but the only things I've noticed my 2008 Mac Pro misses that my 2015 Mac Pro are mostly the lack of VP-x which means you can't run the Windows Phone simulator (not a big deal) and there's a minor performance gap CPU wise and disk performance wise. That said, a lot of the long-in-tooth reason why this machine is still going strong is modular design: 24 GB of a RAM + GeForce GTX 780 means that its still a better gaming machine than any Mac laptop to date.

I don't see any reason to drop 2008 Mac Pros, and I've already seen users running the beta, so I imagine I'll be upgrading against Apple's wishes.

Agreed, exploding job offers is a great term for this.

As by product the child of a family owned-farm for a co-op I have a bit more nuanced view and GMOs are a tool.

* Any time you’re farming you’re screwing up the local ecology by putting shit where it doesn't normally grow or if it does, specifically tailoring it.

* Organic food still uses chemicals for pesticides and fertilizers. The difference they aren’t made chemically, and still have negative effects on local ecology. Example: Cow shit is bad for water tables just like fertilizer, and less effective.

* There’s still no evidence about a nutrition gap between organic and non organic.

* If you’re going to produce food, the ideal is to use the least amount of land and the least amount of chemicals for minimal impact.

* I don’t agree with many mass-ag techniques like high yield varieties in water strapped areas but we can make drought resistant crops that are more mindful of fresh water resources with GMOs and be more responsible.

* I do not like the idea of patenting organics or crops unable to reproduce. It's not conducive to small farming by pricing smaller producers out, which promotes mass ag. Localization of food production helps minimize impacts. * The best reason to support organic is that many of the farms have better work conditions, more female owned, more social responsibility, but that’s exactly the same reason why you want to buy local.

* We need to cultivate a signifier to the idea of minimal impact farming over the idea of organic vs GMO. A classic example of a minimal impact farming technique is shade grown coffee, which means allowing more biodiversity in flora and fauna. Large trees protect the coffee berries, and allow native species to still grown which in turn provides nature habitat for local avian populations which in turn helps maintain local ecology and naturally help curb pests. There's not a single metric, nor a right technique for every crop.

Being pro or anti GMO is misunderstanding the issue. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogss...

In addition to the comment above, I'd view this as an update to zoning laws and renter's rights. As we become increasingly a nation of renters instead of owners, these sort of issues need to be addressed.

I'm guessing this a pivot that actually is moving away from everyday user generated content as facebook already has become increasingly a news and image-macro aggregator/sharer. Why not video I suppose? I imagine forcing video advertisements pays significantly better.