With the upgrade to Sierra comes SIRI plus some iOS 10 rubbish no-one on a Mac Desktop ever wanted.
SIRI is your virtual dream girl to answer all your questions ... except I really don't have any questions except why the hell do I still need a damn mouse.
There has to be a trial with SIRI just to see if it works since Apple has tapped it into Every Damn Thing. It's not clear what questions there would be after ones just to see what happens:
SIRI, is it true Rick Perry can't find his ass with a road map?
There's only one reaction if SIRI starts reading off Reminders 'just to be sure I'm aware' and that's summary execution. Out here in the real world, we call that nagging.
The primary purpose of the Internet is to show you pictures of Katy Perry's boobies, although always properly clothed, and the secondary purpose is to nag you. Oh, oh, please Like us on Facebook before you close this page. Our dream is to tailor our marketing to people with nothing better to do than fuck around with Facebook.
- Insert generic rant on Tim Cook's estimable vision for Apple which has turned it into the pachinko machine of IT -
There was something of a Doom and Gloom for photography earlier and the analysis of the history was quite good. The speaker went back to Ansel Adams' first camera was a Kodak Brownie. It was a good history as he worked it up through to Instagram which, via smartphones, has changed the nature of photography. Many find that fact lamentable but Instagram has more photographic activity taking place than anywhere else.
The general point was smartphones provide a fundamentally different and considerably easier mechanism for uploads. The Doom and Gloom is regarding the persistence of the phenomenon but we question whether it really can be persistent since the extensibility of mobile phones is limited by the size of the devices. This affects specifically the size of the CMOS or the sensor used to detect the image and also the size of the lens which can be used with it.
As it stands with iPhone 7, the primary camera can capture 12 megapixel images while the secondary Facetime camera captures only 7 megapixels. A reasonably good point-and-shoot Canon is available on Amazon for $250 and it captures 20 megapixels with better glass (i.e. bigger) for the lensing. While the traditional camera companies such as Canon, Nikon, etc have obviously moved strongly toward extremely-sophisticated and wildly-expensive high-end kit for static and video photography, the bottom of the market with point-and-shoot cameras does not seem to have collapsed, at least not yet.
Some related thinking on this is Boomers don't have the same perception of photography as Millennials and that's true for music as well. The M's know every photograph is followed by another one since that's the nature of Instagram. Boomers tend to think of photographs as holy relics when they're really good. It seems M's regard music in a similar way and there's a great deal of transience to it. That's abhorrent to B's because we want to make great things, make great peace treaties, all of those wonderful things. The perception of the M's seems quite a bit different from that.
Must be careful about getting too kozmik with that but there's interest because the future of photography may be determined more by inclination than by hardware. When it's possible to shoot adequate photographs with a mobile phone, why spend thousands for the pro kit to make a magnificent photograph ... when I know I will upload another selfie in twenty minutes anyway.
It's evolution in action since their needs for photography are not the same and we're outnumbered, Billy Bob.
SIRI is your virtual dream girl to answer all your questions ... except I really don't have any questions except why the hell do I still need a damn mouse.
There has to be a trial with SIRI just to see if it works since Apple has tapped it into Every Damn Thing. It's not clear what questions there would be after ones just to see what happens:
SIRI, is it true Rick Perry can't find his ass with a road map?
There's only one reaction if SIRI starts reading off Reminders 'just to be sure I'm aware' and that's summary execution. Out here in the real world, we call that nagging.
The primary purpose of the Internet is to show you pictures of Katy Perry's boobies, although always properly clothed, and the secondary purpose is to nag you. Oh, oh, please Like us on Facebook before you close this page. Our dream is to tailor our marketing to people with nothing better to do than fuck around with Facebook.
- Insert generic rant on Tim Cook's estimable vision for Apple which has turned it into the pachinko machine of IT -
There was something of a Doom and Gloom for photography earlier and the analysis of the history was quite good. The speaker went back to Ansel Adams' first camera was a Kodak Brownie. It was a good history as he worked it up through to Instagram which, via smartphones, has changed the nature of photography. Many find that fact lamentable but Instagram has more photographic activity taking place than anywhere else.
The general point was smartphones provide a fundamentally different and considerably easier mechanism for uploads. The Doom and Gloom is regarding the persistence of the phenomenon but we question whether it really can be persistent since the extensibility of mobile phones is limited by the size of the devices. This affects specifically the size of the CMOS or the sensor used to detect the image and also the size of the lens which can be used with it.
As it stands with iPhone 7, the primary camera can capture 12 megapixel images while the secondary Facetime camera captures only 7 megapixels. A reasonably good point-and-shoot Canon is available on Amazon for $250 and it captures 20 megapixels with better glass (i.e. bigger) for the lensing. While the traditional camera companies such as Canon, Nikon, etc have obviously moved strongly toward extremely-sophisticated and wildly-expensive high-end kit for static and video photography, the bottom of the market with point-and-shoot cameras does not seem to have collapsed, at least not yet.
Some related thinking on this is Boomers don't have the same perception of photography as Millennials and that's true for music as well. The M's know every photograph is followed by another one since that's the nature of Instagram. Boomers tend to think of photographs as holy relics when they're really good. It seems M's regard music in a similar way and there's a great deal of transience to it. That's abhorrent to B's because we want to make great things, make great peace treaties, all of those wonderful things. The perception of the M's seems quite a bit different from that.
Must be careful about getting too kozmik with that but there's interest because the future of photography may be determined more by inclination than by hardware. When it's possible to shoot adequate photographs with a mobile phone, why spend thousands for the pro kit to make a magnificent photograph ... when I know I will upload another selfie in twenty minutes anyway.
It's evolution in action since their needs for photography are not the same and we're outnumbered, Billy Bob.
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