dijit27

If we're asking where are all the parties, I'd also like to ask what are we missing out on by not having them? What is the draw? What are some of the reasons for making the effort to host or go to them?

Your comment really gave me pause. I've used FileMaker for many years but never gave the name that much thought.

I can't say how the name was chosen. But, I believe I understand the justification for it. It is pretty straightforward once the metaphor is clear. The files it is making are the type of files that go into filing cabinets, not the files on a computer. Early versions of the software had a logo/picture of a building that was a giant filing cabinet and the app logo has usually been a filing folder.

The name makes sense in that isn't about making files on a computer but to help small business convert physical files found in filing cabinets into digital ones in wysiwyg database.

I remember finding "Photoshop" nonsensical at first because I associated a shop with a place to go buy things and it only made sense once I made the association that cars and such are taken to the shop for repairs.

It does make more sense in context. Crowley isn't a stereotypical evil demon and could reasonably be considered a failure as a demon.

I think the horror comes from the thought that a being whose entire job is to come up with new and clever ways to bring about human misery and suffering is so thoroughly out-classed. The idea that humanity doesn't need an outside influence to inflict such evil is horrific. The joke is just there as window dressing to contrast the real horrors of our collective history.

What did Microsoft learn from Apple here?

I feel like if you were able to remember those product placements that would be a failure for the advertisers.

The best product placements are the ones that go unnoticed.

I'd be curious to see with other options exist, but the one that I know is Filemaker Pro. I'm only familiar with the stand alone version, and while expensive, to me it sounds exactly like what you're talking about wanting.

Hot Take: This is less extreme sport and more performance art.

It really doesn't.

I've been looking at the screenshots you've posted and I'm struggling to see what influence you're seeing in Big Sur that came from Gnome 3.

The best I've come up with is the switch from a two row title bar/header to a one that is integrated into just one row. Which could very well be inspired by Gnome 3 or parallel evolution.

Are there other UI elements that I should be seeing in Big Sur that look like they have inspiration, homage, blatant copying that I'm not seeing here?

To my eye they have a somewhat similar aesthetic but and general layout but their differences are many when looking closer.

There is something about the bias of this article that bugs me. It feels like it is trying to rewrite history to suit its narrative.

It implies that developers used to be able to create whatever programs they wanted thanks to Cydia prior to the App Store. This was never the case, the Cydia ecosystem was based on unintended buggy behavior.

In the beginning Apple was clear that there were no native apps, only web apps or whatever they called them. They eventually reversed course and implemented the App Store for native apps but was that because of Cydia? That's just speculation.

Personally I always speculated that they weren't ready and in classic Apple fashion pretended the idea of native apps was stupid until they were ready.

Should Apple be forced to support other app stores or side loading? I don't know. I do feel like there are good arguments for it but they should be allowed to stand on there own merit without skewing the narrative.

I didn't call it, but I did guess some sort of electrical disconnect.

I think the point is the definition of toxic masculinity that you are using differs from that of some of the other posters.

As I understand your definition toxic masculinity is the pressure society puts on people to conform to negative masculine roles.

My personal definition would be people expressing there masculinity in a way that is hurtful and belittling of others.

They both are part of the same problem where society creates and perpetuates and pushes people to toxic expressions of masculinity and that in turn hurts the public in general. Which looks something like:

Society -> Masculine Roles -> The Public

I'd call the negative expression of that chain Toxic Societal Norms and the second part would be Toxic Masculinity. In both cases it's the noun, societal norms or masculinity, that is the source of the toxicity.

Why wait for future generations? Some of these seem pretty horrific and worthy of derision in the here and now.

I think the biggest problem I see in looking at this trend is the utter inauthenticity of the resulting building. It fails to preserve the original building and it doesn't allow a new building to express itself.

I see value in preserving or renovating the old, I see value in creating something new. I even think a real fusion of old and new could be great. But from what I see this does none of those things. This seems more akin to putting lipstick on a pig.

But perhaps future generations will come to love the charm of this juxtaposition. Perhaps new construction will create new freestanding facades so that the real building can be swapped out easily without changing the frontage. And at the very least I can find amusement in the building of these abominations.

The copy and design of the landing page led me to believe that FreedomBox is an actual box that has all that great software preloaded and ready to go. Which made the unlabeled download button jarring. The text should be changed to something like:

FreedomBox is designed to [run on/create] your own inexpensive server at home. It [includes/is built with] free software and offers an increasing number of services ranging from a calendar or jabber server to a wiki or VPN.

It might be creepy, but it might not be. It is possible that the conversation influenced the ad shown. But it is also likely that ad would have been shown no matter what the prior conversation was about. If the conversation hadn't included talking about the college prior to seeing the ad it would have been a non-event. But being primed in advance makes it at least feel like a freaky coincidence or at worst nefariously creepy targeted advertising.

These kind of events happen by chance and have been happening well before almost everyone started carrying mobile recording devices in their pockets and even pre-internet.

I have no doubt that advertisers would love to have that kind of insight but I can't help but feel that the anecdote of the form, we talked about A and A showed up X minutes later, is too easily explain by coincidence. How many topics were discussed, how many ads were shown? When I read something like this I imagine the anecdote should read more along the lines of how we talked about A, B, C, D, E and F and among the dozen or so ads I saw afterwords one of them was topic A! Can you believe it? And yes, yes I can, that is a pretty neat coincidence.

On the other hand if out of all 6 of the topics discussed all of the ads that were shown afterward were related to them, maybe not all, but more than one or two. That sounds like there is something fishy going on.

I don't mean to single out this particular example, it was to be a simple comment that had more to say. So, thank you for the inspiration!

The paper he is using is 53 cents per page according to the provided link. Ink cost is a bit harder to determine without knowing how many prints per pen. He is including free shipping, could easily be $5 to $10. There is also the matter of the time taken, the overhead of space and electricity and that doesn't even acknowledge any creativity. I'd estimate the break even point to be around $20-25. Much less than that and it would be more sensible to not bother doing anything at all.

You are correct, if Amazon Go stores end up being targets for robbery that would damage roll out of additional stores the problem is that I can't think of how any one could rob them blind. The primary problem being that there is no cash to steal in the store and the goods all have low price to bulk ratios making them just plain difficult to steal. They just aren't worth robbing. Not that someone won't try anyway.

That isn't to say they couldn't be targeted by shoplifters, but that is a huge difference from being robbed blind. And even here the store has two advantages in that login with the app is required to even enter and the whole store is covered with sensors and cameras in addition to the staff.

As for the PR fallout I'd actually be interested to see how that goes, how much biometric data Amazon was able to gather on them even with a mask and/or bulky clothes, how the security features of the store actually work.

I fondly remember seeing that product grid on Apple's website. And even though it isn't displayed as a grid I think the current iPad lineup fits the 2 axis concept pretty well. They still have the consumer/professional or consumption/creation axis. The Pro being the professional/creation end. And instead of laptop/desktop they have the size or portability axis. In the large professional there is the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, in the small professional there is the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. For the large consumer there is the iPad and finally the for the small consumer is the iPad mini.