When we use this language, coming from English, Spanish or Dutch or whatever, we have that as reference. If you would use this language truely, I guess it would mean that you start to think differently about the objects. Maybe the difference between train and car is not that important anymore.
Indeed, we speak of the cars of a train, while a highway truck with several cars attached is likewise called a train. A railway train is literally a train of railway cars. Then there's the cable car, which is not a train although it runs on tracks, but then again, a track car is a race car for race tracks, which a driver might do training with. And all of them could car-rycar-go.
I don't mind that Apple offers very thin laptops that limit battery life, and make it impossible to change harddisks or add memory. The Macbook Air was the first, and it was great as it was. If there is a market for this, whether for professionals or not, they should sell them as much as then can.
I do mind that they don't offer at least one good alternative that is "programmer pro": harddisk can be changed, RAM can be added, battery can be replaced and may be bigger. I really don't mind 5mm or even 1cm extra thickness if that gives me all this for a reasonable price. And the 2012 Macbook Pro (without retina) was offered up til last year, but that was no real option with four year old hardware and still for the same price.
Programmer pro does not need HD replacement and ram replacement. I would say in this day and age, decent keyboard, awesome screen, and fast wifi makes the most impact... I think what you mean is "computer enthusiast" because a pro will get the right tool for the job and get to work.
MacBook pros have not been upgradable for a while and I would bet a significant number of "programmer pros" still use them without complaint.
When a PDF is properly formatted, when sentences are structured like sentences, and when it's a simple PDF like a book without tables and pictures, it works.
Sometimes you see a PDF where the end of a line of text means the end of a paragraph structure wise. And if you choose to use a bigger font, the text flow changes and sentences break halfway, leaving a half empty line, etc. When this happens once every two or three pages, not a problem, but if this happens all the time it makes the book unreadable. This happens quite a lot at the ending of a page as well.
If you have something like a sidenote or footnote, it is very likely that it breaks up the textflow, and not in a nice way, after a paragraph, but it breaks up a sentence. This can be very confusing, especially if you're reading in a different language with complex sentences.
Then there is another level of breaking up a sentence halfway, where words are not formatted as words, but as letters, and where each line breaks up words. I've seen this with a O'Reilly book. They fixed this within a week, so that was excellent service, but it shows how this can work.
Images can be a problem, depending on their size. Most ereaders are underpowered and can have difficulty processing large images.
Tables will be mess in 99% of the cases, because they consist of text and lines, and do not have any structure. It's always a surprise how they will show up. It could mean that half of the table is not even shown, or column one is shown, below that column 2, and you don't see the relation anymore. Sometimes column 2 is partly shown before column 1.
The Polo is a great car. Here in Europe diesel is the most used fuel, and cars are fast enough if not faster than gas engines.
But have you driven behind a diesel that floored the gas pedal? Have you seen that smoke? It's a good thing that diesel is on its way out due to hybrid technology. And VW makes great gas engines as well.
I still prefer Firefox over Chrome or Safari, and push it to everyone I can. Thanks for all the good work! Sometimes it looks like Chrome takes over the web like IE did ten years ago. I hope you can withstand this trend.
Too bad this isn't mentioned on the download page. I haven't used snaps until now, and I see there is no menu item. I can start via the terminal, and guess I have to add it to the menu myself.
Experience is subjective. If you teleport to another location you're not the same person you were before you left, you're a similar set of molecules reconstructed in the same fashion. In all actuality, "you" died and another "you" took your place. But to you and everyone around you, it seems like nothing has changed, so you carry on with your life.
Likewise, if you travel back in time and change the future, you're not helping the people in the future you left, you're helping the people in the past avoid that future. But to you, it looks the same. It looks just like the past you're familiar with, and it develops into some semblance of the future you were expecting. So for all intents and purposes, from a subjective viewpoint you're avoiding the paradox and helping your ancestors. It doesn't matter if the people you left are still suffering, subjectively they don't exist anymore.
This is the exact explanation used in the anime Steins;Gate. Okabe (the main character) is capable of 'moving timelines' which is treated as jumping between different parallel worlds.
He leaves his friends behind in a world where WW3 breaks out over world powers fighting over research for a working time machine. In a way, he is leaving his friends to die in a post-apocalyptic WW3...but that doesn't matter because he's saving them in his 'current' timeline. The other worlds, from his perspective, "don't exist" anymore.
>In all actuality, "you" died and another "you" took your place. But to you and everyone around you, it seems like nothing has changed, so you carry on with your life.
In the show they call this power "Reading Steiner" when he "replaces himself" in a new timeline. Since he is capable of remembering what happened in the other timelines (nobody else does - as from their perspective these other timelines never existed).
In the Star Trek universe, where the matter is converted to information, transmitted and then converted to matter, then your statement may be true. But, in other universes where the matter is actually translated in a dimension then it will not be. Also, we don't actually know what "you" is and whether it would be included in the Star Trek mechanism.
My point really, is that there are varying fictional universes but in ours, we don't currently have a way to do teleportation. So, as you say, experience is subjective.
If you stay in the "new" past, you can just enjoy the fruits of your labor. If you jump back to the future by conventional means, like hibernation/cryogenic sleep, you will wake up in the same changed universe, including altered versions of the loved ones you left behind (if you are lucky [or unlucky if they change in a bad way]).
If you jump back into the old universe, nothing will have changed – so that is pretty much the only place you should stay away from.
There won't be a future where people knowingly will have experienced the results of your heroic deeds, which might be sad to some, but you can just tell/try to convince them of what good you did. Maybe take some videos or other proof.
Interesting, how does TomTom save you time over the gmaps navigation? I just tell my phone, "navigate to <business name>" and 15 seconds later it's telling me where to go. What am I missing?
I don't have a data plan on my phone, so I use offline mode whenever I want to go somewhere. It's pretty great, I just need to remember to save the route before I leave WiFi.
The only limit to how big an area you can cover with Google offline maps is your storage. Each individual offline map is limited in size but you can download as many as you want to cover as big an area as you can fit in your phone.
> Note: Downloading offline areas isn't available in some regions because of contractual limitations, language support, address formats, or other reasons.
100+ 120,000 sq km areas, huh? You visit 12 million sq km of land on a regular basis?
Yes, Google can't provide offline maps in some countries. This is true of all mapping applications, though some have better offline coverage than others, nobody has everywhere. For example HERE does not offer offline maps in Japan or South Korea.
You'll need 100s of areas if you want to minimise your local storage usage, and micro-managing that would be a PITA. GM announces 'up to 1750mb' to download the part of my country I traveled to in the last month, it's a non-starter.
Compare that to the 179mb/113mb that I need with OSMAnd/Maps.me for the whole country without fiddling. Add to that the fact that OSM's data is significantly better than Google Map's for my country (YMMV) and that there's no such thing as "offline mode not available in some regions" with OSM.
