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My unhappiness with Apple isn’t about lack of novelty. It’s about price and value. The high value of the first iBook saved Apple, that is forgotten now.
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#Heartbleed: as best I can tell we should change pw on vulnerable sites then don’t use them again for a month or so then change pw again? What a mess.
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Still no update for the Mac Mini. Should we assume it’s dead?
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These days my information resources are so distributed I find I have to create a stub pointer in SimpleNote/NValt to tell me where to look. So I’m thinking about ways to automate that process…
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Just realized that when I search on “CloudAssets” Google switches search to “Cloud Assets”. Only clue is small inline text that I missed many times. So irritating. — http://bit.ly/1q3VzhT
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I thought I was Liberal, but Koch says I’m #Collectivist. Kind of a cool sound. I can do that.
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Weirdest iOS omission: settings search is Siri only. I rarely remember to invoke Siri, but is much easier.
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So the old .Mac Apple ID I use on Apple Store has full iCloud services. I probably knew that once and forgot. No email though — my .Mac email address was orphaned when I didn’t renew. Years before MobileMe…
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Anyone else notice that iOS Facebook.app behaves more and more like a simple RSS UI? SmartFilter, Recent, Pages, Groups, Photos … It’s almost like Feed Readers weren’t a bad idea …
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When someone in my Contact list dies I don’t delete them. I add them to a ‘Group’ called, inevitably, RIP. I enter a note on when they died, maybe something about our relationship. What do others do?
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Wolfram Language: 8 min video of Wolfram Language [blog.wolfram.com]. Classes made up from Alpha and Mathematica that correspond to interesting computable objects in our world. I’m not sure this is the first AI language, but seems best funded and the most interesting.
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Assume today’s 50-65 has most demanding parent care duties in history. How does that impact employment? Economic growth? # demographics
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I have a suspicion many 45+ impoverished adults, were they children again today, would get special needs diagnosis and disability criteria. Would be an interesting study to estimate this.
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TSA precheck is like pre-2011 travel. Now $85/5y. Once a gross privacy invasion, now NSA-lite. Big plus for airlines, surprised they don’t subsidize.
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In past day of work have had PGIMeet conferencing outage, Google Hangout outage, SharePoint outage, VPN issues, and McAfee antivirus eating my winbox. We live in a lean world of complexity with relatively little resilience. I wonder where it’s going…
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I just moved from ML to Mavericks at 10.9.2. No big problems so far, but quite a few glitches. Had to reinstall printers, iBooks is disappointing, etc. Desktop machines haven’t been mass market since MultiFinder.
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Fujitsu just popped up a marketing survey on my Mac. ScanSnap not running, no startup items for my admin user. They must have installed a daemon or equivalent. Time to update my Amazon review …
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From Aperture create a photo stream. Make it a public website. Now delete an image. Note that it’s not deleted from the public site. This was with Aperture 3.0, wouldn’t surprise me if still broken.
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Cold War II: Houston, we have a problem. What about the Space Station?
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Meteorologically this year’s polar vortex may be the global warmed version of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 1820 ‘Long Winter’.
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Stadi Hohenschonhausen Memorial Prison. Berlin. [atlasobscura.com.feedsportal.com] Before the American War on Terror, the Stasi. But no simulated drowning? Amateurs.
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Every few months I need prints. Decided least painful option is upload to Walgreens, collect during commute. Beware: not all are 24 hour!
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@clarkgoble #IOT Pelagian Controversy: So that is context of the ‘where do souls fine from’ debate. Important event in Christian theology – informs Catholic position on contraception. Neat!
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I now suspect airfare pricing is like hospital pricing. Corporate/Insured pay far lower than list price. NonCorporate/PrivatePay get stuck with inflated list price. Weird tax games all around. 21st century commerce is all about information asymmetry.
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Early 19th cent, in early industrial revolution, 1/7 of English received some public assistance. Mass disability in time of disruption.
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I’ve wondered where there aren’t more articles on DNA analysis of synovial fluid. Works for oceans! For decades many have suspected an infectious component of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Just created a PubMed RSS feed on the topic [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]. Found 1 article.
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BBC News site Turning Tabloid? Seems whackier to me. More misleading headlines, embroidered stories. I wonder if their journalists are conscious of the change ….
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Is it better to seize the ring or to avoid the traps?
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The world needs a name pronunciation service. Paste string, add optional nationality/ethnicity/language, get pronunciations. Good Google data mining project.
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Thought: If we understood the reboot process the adolescent brain, we’d understand why schizophrenia manifests in late teens.
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Setting up Canada sister with post-contract unlocked ATT i4 and prepaid Virgin.ca SIM. i4 battery old and home button balky, Apple Store swapped for unlocked refurb. $160. Unmatched value preservation.
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I believe less than 10% of my corporate colleagues understand how Outlook/Exchange calendaring works. Same for SharePoint document management. For both it’s 7%. This is where Microsoft failed, not Metro.
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FireWire issues still lockup my Mac, and there are no useful diagnostics. Is Thunderbolt better?
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As earth warms there will be fewer winter olympic nations. Probably never a 3rd women hockey contender. What year will the winter games give up?
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Amazon, I am noticing that my 2 day “prime” deliveries always arrive one day after you say they will arrive.
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Watching Podcast.app inexplicably refuse to synchronize 30 of my podcasts from iTunes. Wishing Apple could be punished for its sins.
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Now that Nook is officially dead, is it time to declare Adobe eBook DRM dead too? Good thing it is technically strippable.
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Starting my scanner project at last. Want to dump ten filing cabinets. (Our paper volume is a peak-paper age artifact, younger/older have less paper.) Will decide if Mac workflow or Acrobat in VM. I like Acrobat OCR.
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Freeze trivial wart: $320. Insurance pays: $48. Health care price concealment is infuriating. Why does Right waste all it’s great rage on stupid things?
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@clarkgoble Hanlon’s razor is great, but I like the “happy accident” of emergent malice. Profitable incompetence becomes unspoken policy. Selection builds on error. // @wickedgood
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Remembering 90s digital pets [en.wikipedia.org]. Prequel to Her. Easy to see AI evolving as Brood Parasite [en.wikipedia.org] on human emotional circuits. Worked for dogs!
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Vanguard edition, evolution of mutual funds. What I see when I order deposit slips: “The page you’re trying to reach is currently unavailable.”
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Fidelity mystery explained: Years ago they transitioned from being mutual fund oriented to being brokerage focused; many mutual fund services went away. I’m sure it wasn’t done to serve me better.
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@wickedgood Curious! The data is largely video, stored in CloudAssets folder [discussions.apple.com]. The only fix I know is to wipe, but I’ll try this workaround. Manual deletion using Phone View didn’t work.
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Another family 4S with uncleared cached iCloud movies using over 15GB storage. Add this one to the (long) 7.x bug list – probably file system corruption bug. Requires backup/wipe/restore cycle to fix.
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#Prediction: Google will roll out two tier service for certified advertisers. Low cost go Promotions tab, high cost go Primary tab. Bypass spam filters, but not user filters.
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I’d pay $20 for a Flash client that let me override the fast forward controls on corporate training videos …
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Metadata management is supposed to be an Aperture strength — but Apple bungled keywords. The keyword inheritance hierarchy capability needed more smarts on keyword data entry.
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On specialist income: Proceduralists control AMA, AMA publishes the accounting codes (CPT) that Medicare uses. Wonderful 40 yo racket in plain view. Amusing nobody notices. #t
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