With camera sales overall still contracting, and with so many players duking it out in full frame mirrorless and dangling discounts to grab business, it's easy to see the Dark Side of the situation.
But rest assured, DSLR users, there's a Bright Side, too.
Because so many people who are picking up mirrorless bodies are dumping a fair amount of DSLR gear to pay for their "upgrade" (!?!?!), it's creating a situation in the refurbished, used, gray, and even new market where the prices are coming down for DSLR owners, too.
The thing to pay attention to is the timing of new product introductions.
For example, on the Nikon side, the brand new 24-70mm f/2.8 S is just a far better lens than the old F-mount 24-70mm f/2.8G; heck the fairly new 24-70mm f/4 S is better at equivalent apertures, in my opinion. Enough so that a lot of the transitioners are dumping their big, older mid-range zooms for the newer Z options. Sometime shortly after the Z lens introductions, prices on the oldest 24-70mm f/2.8 F-mount lenses started to drop.
There is a concept in user interface design called the Principle of Least Surprise, where you want to design systems in such a way that they surprise their users least. I think a similar concept applies to subscription pricing. The ideal (from a user friendliness perspective, not best business perspective) system for customer subscriptions should never surprise the customer with a charge. The customer should always be happy to see a charge appear on their credit card.
In other words, their subscription payments should always be Intentional.
Apple already offers guidelines for how developers must handle subscription activation pages, as some apps have historically employed misleading labels and buttons designed to maximize signups without putting cost and other key details front and center. Smith offers four suggestions which, if implemented, would go a very long way toward ensuring users are never surprised by a subscription charge.
Lately one of Apple’s favorite things to highlight during quarterly earnings reports is subscription growth, which falls under its Services line of business. It’s understandable why the company may not be inclined to make subscriptions easier to opt out of, but if enough users are negatively impacted by misleading subscriptions and customer satisfaction numbers take a hit as a result, perhaps we’ll start to see more change in this area. The recent updates to subscription guidelines give me hope that Apple has a pulse on the situation.
Go doesn't provide a mechanism for having "goroutine local" variables (like threadlocals in Python but for goroutines), and the structure of the language makes it really hard to get something working. JT Olio figured out a truly legendary hack: Go's introspection lets you see the current stack, so he figured out a way to encode a base-16 identifer tag into the call order of 16 special nested functions. I particularly like the "What are people saying?" section of the README: "Wow, that's horrifying." - "This is the most terrible thing I have seen in a very long time." - "Where is it getting a context from? Is this serializing all the requests? What the heck is the client being bound to? What are these tags? Why does he need callers? Oh god no. No no no."
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This sequel to Trail Of Lightning is a stronger book by a writer of growing talent. Navajo stories of the end of the last world and the beginning of the world we know are recast in post-apocalyptic YA language; most of North America is now underwater, monsters — some human, some not — roam the desert, and Gods walk among us. Deities speak — as the deities of the Navajo and of Roanhorse’s Okeh Owinga pueblo speak — with the rhythms of their people’s speech, and with their sense of humor. Of course, when supernatural folk feel like a joke, things can rapidly become unpleasant for the five-fingered.
A decade after Michael Ruhlman went to the Culinary Institute of America to write Making Of A Chef, magazine writer Michael Dixon makes the same journey in order to change careers. He’s been miserable at Martha Stewart, he’s not setting the world on fire as a freelancer, he’s pretty sure his girlfriend is a better writer than he is, and he’s hoping to find his calling in cooking school.
It’s an interesting contrast. Ruhlman was on assignment, and he needed to finish quickly because he desperately needed the second half of the advance. But Ruhlman, along the way, also found a vocation. Dixon, on the other hand, went looking for a vocation and not, it seems, a book: at any rate, Ruhlman is always reporting, interviewing his fellow students, interviewing his teachers, interrogating the food. Dixon records himself as very much in the moment. That might have made this second book more vivid, but there's just not enough background and detail about his fellow students, their struggles and their stories, and there's really not enough color in the food. Still, it's a very enjoyable school story with an excellent intermezzo about an externship gone wrong.
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak at the NextM conference in Copenhagen, hosted by Group M.
Here is a short excerpt from my talk. In this section I'm talking about the stupidity of marketers who are obsessed with millennials and ignore older people.
After trying to remember when I used the Internet for the first time in my previous article on Gopher and the early World Wide Web, and coming to the conclusion that it was in 1994, I’ve then taken the next step and tried to remember when I actually published my first website. So here’s the story.
While I was not quite sure at first about the exact date or year, I still remembered very well what my first two websites I put online where about: One was about the solar car association I chaired at the time and the other one was about my experiences when I spent some time away from Germany in California in 1996 for an internship as part of my studies.
Back in 1996 the world was a different place. Calls from Germany to the US cost several Euros a minute and the Internet was still mostly in academic hands. A nice place! Today, one would find all information for an internship on the other side of the world by going online and ‘googling’ the place. Not so back in 1996, only few companies were online at that time. So from today’s perspective it was an adventure I stumbled into blindly. But the Internet started to take-off in 1996 and I still remember that even while having been in the US, I started using the web on a daily basis. So even before coming back to Germany in August 1996 I decided to put my experiences and tips and tricks on a website of my own. Blogs didn’t exist then by the way.
Once back in my college in the fall of 1996, I started putting the two web sites together and I’m not really sure anymore if the solar car website or the website on my American internship went online first. At the time, I saved both websites in ZIP files and file dates inside the archive point to a launch date in October 1996. Let’s step back for a second and put this into perspective: Google was founded only two years later on 4. September 1998, Wikipedia only saw the light of day in January 2001 and Youtube was founded only eight years later in February 2005. According to Jonathan Gray, there were around 257.000 websites in 1996, compared to the 1.5 billion websites in 2019. The Internet was a radically different place at the time. A bit like the early universe perhaps, not a lot of light yet, but also not a lot of shadow like today either.
But back to the websites now. As I wanted to know if anybody would actually be interested in what I had to tell about my internship and if my sites could be found in the first place, I included a CGI script to deliver one of the images on the main page that logged the access request. I still have some of the log files today and they reveal an interesting mix of operating systems and browsers. Mostly, my web pages were accessed from Windows 3.1/3.11 (Win16) computers. Also, I can see a few Windows 95 machines in the logs at the end of 1996, a few Macs, Sun workstations and a tiny tiny few HP-UX, Irix and Alpha machines. At the time most people coming to my web page used Netscape’s Mozilla 3.0, some were still on the older 2.0 version and I saw a few http requests from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. And indeed, my web page was frequented several dozen times a day, mostly from people at universities or via dial-up to modem banks at universities. I only found very few IP addresses that were translated to commercial ISPs. Not too many people were online back in 1996/97, so I thought and still do think that a couple of dozen people coming to my websites every day back then were a real success.
So where did I actually host my webpage? On a Sun server at the college of course, running the NCSA web server in its final version, 1.5.1. Today’s Apache web server was derived from the NCSA web server code, and was, for many years, and perhaps still is today, the dominant web server on the Internet. Yes, Apache is really that old!!! Both web pages remained on that server even after I left college in the late 1990s. Eventually the server was retired and my two websites with it. But the Internet Archive still has a copy of both and if you want to see how web sites looked like 25 years ago, have a look there. The pages still render correctly in modern browsers despite being decades old. I don’t think a lot of things in computing have such a long life. And as far as the pages are concerned, I’m pretty certain I made them by hand as they are quite straight forward and no marks are inside that would indicate the use of a tool such as Frontpage which became popular a bit later.
So that was 1996. And now it’s 2019, two decades later. What a ride!
Apple says, What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone. Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data in a single week.
One of the apps happens to be the Washington Post app.
This is of course not an iPhone problem. App developers use toolkits to track their apps and monetize them. Apple may actually be the first company to change this.
What you can do today to minimize your exposure:
Check the apps on your phone. Everything you haven't used in 30 days should be deleted. Same thing for anything you don't even know what it does.
Look at the rest. Do you even need them or do you just waste precious time mindlessly browsing on your phone? Like Facebook or Instagram.
Next: kill the worst offenders. Like WhatsApp.
For the rest: disable background app refresh for all but essential messaging apps. That's in Settings/General/Background App Refresh.
I’ve been making charts of internet use, mobile phones and smartphones since the early 2000s. At one point, they were confounding and exciting - could it really be growing that fast? How many people would have these things? Now, we know the answer: everyone. Everyone would have one.
There are about 5.3bn people on earth aged over 15. Of these, around 5bn have a mobile phone. This is an estimate: I’m going with the GSMA’s but most others are in the same range. The data challenge is that mobile operators collectively know how many people have a SIM card, but a lot of people have more than one. Meanwhile, ownership starts at aged 10 or so in developed markets, whereas in some developing markets half of the population is under 15, which means that a penetration number given as a share of the total population masks a much higher penetration of the adult population.
About 4bn people have a smartphone. How do we get to this number? Well:
Apple gave a number of 900m active iPhones at the beginning of the year, which is consistent with the unit sales that it reported until recently.
Google said at this year’s IO conference that there are 2.5bn active Android devices, and the Android developer dashboard says that about 95% of these are phones.
Google’s number does not include Android phones in China, which do not come with any Google services (conversely Apple’s number does include iOS devices in China). The Chinese government estimates just over 800m internet-connected smartphones in China, and perhaps 20% of these are iPhones, giving a round number of 650m Android phones.
How many of these are online? These sources are all based on devices that connect to the internet regularly in order for them to be counted, but ‘connection’ is a pretty fuzzy thing. The entry price for low-end Android is now well under $50, and cellular data connectivity is relatively expensive for people earning less than $10 or $5 a day (and yes, all of these people are getting phones). Charging your phone is also expensive - if you live without grid electricity, you may need to pay the neighbor who owns a generator, solar cells or car battery to top up your battery. Hence, MTN Nigeria recently reported that 47% of its users had a smartphone but only 27% were active data users (defined as using >5 meg/month). Of course, some of these will be limiting their use to wifi, where they can get it. These issues will obviously intensify as the next billion convert to smartphones (or near-smartphones like KaiOS) in the next few years. There are lots of paths to address this, including the continuing cost efficiencies of cellular, cheaper backhaul (perhaps using LEO satellites), and cheap solar panels (and indeed more wifi). The fratricidal price wars started by Jio in India are another contributor, though you can’t really rely on that to happen globally. But this issue means that on one hand there are actually more than 4bn smartphones in use in some way, but on the other that fewer than 4bn are really online.
What platforms? The platform wars ended a long time ago, and Apple and Google both won (outside China, at least). However, as one would expect given the range of prices, these devices are not evenly distributed: surveys in the US suggest that over 80% of teenagers have an iPhone, whereas the situation in India is pretty much the reverse. The use of these devices also matters: people who buy high-end phones tend to use them more. Hence the charts below give traffic data from a bunch of sampling points with a lot of traffic: where are your customers?
Meanwhile, the PC market, which has had flat-to-falling sales for the last few years, has something around 1.5bn active devices (including a bit over 100m Macs and a similar number running Linux of various kinds, and 800m running Windows 10, which was released 4 years ago), split roughly 50/50 consumer/enterprise. Quite which number you use depends on which analyst firm’s estimates you prefer, but they’re all in the same range.
What about tablets? Apple says 900m iPhones and ‘over 1.4bn’ total active devices: if you subtract 200m Macs, Watches and Apple TVs combined that leaves about 300m iPads (again, this is consistent with historically reported unit sales) - 350m seems possible. Google’s numbers cited above imply something between 100m and 150m Android tablets (I hesitate to be more precise given how rounded these numbers are). Non-Google Android tablets in China might be double that, or even more - here again the question of whether the device goes online to show up in the stats means it’s hard to make a firm estimate (I’m sure people will disagree with this one). But this means there are certainly over half a billion tablets in use.
So. There’s an old joke that the career of an analyst progresses from Word to Excel to Powerpoint. That’s pretty much what’s happened here over the last 20 years: first we discussed what might happen (“imagine if everyone had a phone!”), then we tracked the numbers of what was happening, and finally we draw diagrams and bullet points of what that means. That’s where we are now - we try to work out what it means that almost everyone on earth has a phone or a smartphone (I made a presentation about this).
But this also means that now we go back to the beginning: I’m not updating my smartphone model anymore. The next fundamental trends in tech, today, are probably machine learning, crypto and regulation. I can write about those, but it’s too early to make charts.
It lists 5 groups of practices that subvert (by being distracting or destructive) actual ethical principles being applied in digital technology. They are very recognisable from ethical discussions I’ve been in or witness to. The paper also provides some pointers in how to address them.
I will list and quote the five practices, and add a sixth that I come across regularly in my own work. Together they are digital ethics dark patterns so to speak:
ethics shopping: “the malpractice of choosing, adapting, or revising (“mixing and matching”) ethical principles, guidelines, codes, frameworks, or other similar standards (especially but not only in the ethics of AI), from a variety of available offers, in order to retrofit some pre-existing behaviours (choices, processes, strategies, etc.), and hence justify them a posteriori, instead of implementing or improving new behaviours by benchmarking them against public, ethical standards.“
ethics bluewashing: the malpractice of making unsubstantiated or misleading claims about, or implementing superficial measures in favour of, the ethical values and benefits of digital processes, products, services, or other solutions in order to appear more digitally ethical than one is.
ethics lobbying: the malpractice of exploiting digital ethics to delay, revise, replace, or avoid good and necessary legislation (or its enforcement) about the design, development, and deployment of digital processes, products, services, or other solutions. (can you say big tech?)
ethics dumping: the malpractice of (a) exporting research activities about digital processes, products, services, or other solutions, in other contexts or places (e.g. by European organisations outside the EU) in ways that would be ethically unacceptable in the context or place of origin and (b) importing the outcomes of such unethical research activities.
ethics shirking: the malpractice of (a) exporting research activities about digital processes, products, services, or other solutions, in other contexts or places (e.g. by European organisations outside the EU) in ways that would be ethically unacceptable in the context or place of origin and (b) importing the outcomes of such unethical research activities.
To which I want to add a sixth, based on observations in my work in various organisations, and what pops up ethics-related in my feedreader:
ethics futurising: the malpractice of discussing ethics and even hiring ethics advisors only for technology and processes that are 10 years into the future for the organisation in question. E.g. AI ethics in a company that as yet has nothing to do with AI. At the same time that same ethical soul searching is not applied to currently relevant and used practices, technology or processes. It has a part of ethics bluewashing in it (pattern 2, being seen as ethical rather than being ethical), but there’s something else at play as well, a blind spot to ethical questions being relevant in reflecting on current digital practices, tech choices, processes and e.g. data collection methods, the assumption being that current practice is all right.
I find this sixth one both distracting and destructive: it let’s an organisation believe they are on top of digital ethics issues, but it is all unrelated to their core activities. As a result staff currently involved in real questions are left to their own devices. Which means that for instance data protection officers are lonely figures and often all but ignored by their organisations until after a (legal) issue arises.
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AP 1: I never look at mailers.
AP 2: I look at every single mailer.
AP 3: I got a bottle of tequila!
All joking aside, Heather Elder has an awesome podcast you should be checking out called “Dear Art Producer” where she’s asking the questions all professional photographers and reps want to hear the answer to. If you’ve been in this business long enough most of it is pretty reassuring stuff that we already know: some read every email, some look at every promo, some don’t. There is no magic bullet and you keep all channels open and active to reach them. There are a few surprises too like a mixed bag on use of instagram and that motion is not coming out of the broadcast department as much as in the past and they are looking for photographers who can do it all fast and loose (cheap).
Give it a listen and drop a comment if you find anything surprising. Looking forward to more of these.
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As soon as you arrive in the United States from overseas, people are yelling at you. First, they’re telling you which queues to use depending on which passport you have. Somehow, the printed signage doesn’t suffice, though I have a hard time believing that uniformed officers quickly barking orders at people is of much use to a foreign-language speaker.
Get through that and, if you need to transfer flights, it’s right onto baggage recheck and then into a security queue were TSA agents are loudly rolling off many rules to follow. Shoes off. Jackets off. Computers out. It’s not the first time most people have done this, but screens and signs indicating what to do are not enough. I don’t know how people who aren’t American can even understand what’s said most of the time.
And then there are the televisions with the talking heads arguing with each other. And the endless “This is a security announcement…” announcements blaring over that.
Airports in Europe aren’t without their own quirks and stresses, but the first thing I appreciate when arriving in Europe on a flight from the United States is the relative difference in sound and tension. Walk off the plane. Find your way using the signage. Walk. Go through passport control without a stream of words yelled at you.
My favorite airport to arrive into from the States right now is Munich. It feels like a sanctuary. It’s almost too quiet.
I’m generalizing, of course. Every airport and every country has its own quirks. Berlin Schönefeld, for example, is an absolute chaotic disaster for a northern European airport. But, the next time you go between countries, listen.
My general inclination is to support the argument in this post, but two things give me pause. The first is the definition of 'computational thinking', which the author characterizes as follows: "look at the provided information, narrow it down to the most valuable data, find patterns and identify themes." That's not exactly how I would define it, and it seems to me to be a mischaracterization of Jeannette Wing's paper from 2006. And second, while I think that pattern recognition as a skill is important, the suggested deployment seems wrong: giving students lists of states and asking them to guess the basis on which they are sorted. That's not recognition, that's recall.
Substitute the word 'educator' for 'leader' and the entire argument is exactly the same. If enjoined to discover what a population actually wants and to then implement it, it seems to me that robots could soon do a better job than our leaders. Not yet, though. The hard part is the first part - determining what people actually want. That's what could be solved with computation, at least in theory. Human leaders fail in the second part: implementing it. Too often, human leaders serve some other agenda, one that acts against the interests of the population.
VBike, in Vermont, is a non-profit cycling advocacy group:
VBike is a unique advocacy group dedicated to bringing super bike mobility to Vermont. We’re talking a bike revolution. Electric-assist cargobikes for families & households, e-bikes and e-trikes for seniors & commuters – it’s a game changer! Now we can get over the hills, ride our kids, smile, and not be confined to the automobile.
In my experience it’s really hard to get information about anything other than “regular” bicycles here on PEI; while bike shops occasionally get in tricycles or three-wheel recumbent bicycles, they tend to be presented as a rare, unusual and expensive.
It seems clear that the future is going to demand that we use bicycles more, and for that to be accessible to all of us we’re going to have to tackle a broader range of active transportation options.
This is a response to an article by Ellen Kirkpatrick titles The academy I dreamed of for 20 years no longer exists, and I am waking up. "The faculty system, as a whole, is classist and the power dynamics are messed up." Of ourse, it was always thus, but now there's a much greater danger than graduates might end up on the wrong end of this class structure, and it frightens them.
Your editor makes a comment or suggestion you don’t like and don’t agree with. What do you do now? There is one wrong answer to this question, and three right answers. The wrong answer is to argue with the editor. Why? Convincing the editor that she is wrong is of no value to you. Who … Continued
The archaeology of the American Southwest has always been rooted in Anthropology, while the archaeology of classical Europe is more closely allied to History. The result, Lekson argues, has been decidedly mixed. In particular, the focus on anthropology concentrates all attention on the ethnographic present, on the way things turned out, and this exclusive focus precludes history.
Sometime in the 13th and 14th centuries in the American Southwest, something happened. Through all his late work, this has been Lekson’s theme. Chaco — unprecedented in the region — vanished. Aztec rose, and vanished. Mimbres, too, vanished — or, rather, moved downstream and changed their art, their architecture, and probably everything else.
Chaco’s great houses look like pueblos, but they weren't. They were palaces.They fell, as palaces fall, to revolution. Chaco was not like a modern pueblo: the modern pueblo was created, in part, from the revolution against whatever Chaco was. That revolution was interesting and ideological; we may never know very much about it, but we should learn what we can.
Billed as a final book by the great historical stylist of his era, this is a book that repays study.
Tony Bates lays it on the line: "There is momentum for change in Canadian institutions but it is too little and too slow in comparison to the changes in the world outside. The race is not against the USA, the U.K. or Australia but against the network platforms that will come in and steal our lunch if we are not more agile and focused. Radical change in the way we teach is needed. Resources need to be reallocated and above all a clear vision is needed of how we should be teaching in a digital age. This is essentially a leadership issue." He's right, of course. But they will never let people with such vision anywhere near the university president's chair.
Alan Davidson, Vice President of Global Policy, Trust and Security testified today on behalf of Mozilla before the International Grand Committee on Big Data, Privacy and Democracy. The International Grand Committee, composed of representatives from numerous governments around the world, has gathered in Ottawa, Canada for its second meeting, hosted by the House of Commons of Canada.
“We believe the internet can be better. And to build an internet that is both innovative and worthy of people’s trust, we will need better technology and better policy,” said Alan. In his testimony Alan focused on the need for better product design to protect privacy; getting privacy policy and regulation right; and the complexities of content policy issues. Against the backdrop of tech’s numerous missteps over the last year, our mission-driven work is a clear alternative to much of what is wrong with the web today.
For more, check out the replay of the hearing or read Alan’s prepared statement for the Committee.
Plugging in a USB adapter is one of the easiest ways to add 802.11ac Wi-Fi access to a desktop PC, especially if you don’t want to (or are unable to) install an internal card yourself. After 50 hours of testing 20 models against a high-end laptop’s internal Wi-Fi, we are confident the TP-Link Archer T4U is the best USB Wi-Fi adapter for most people.
Apple’s 2019 Worldwide Developers Conference will kick off in just a week, and the company will likely announce the next significant macOS update at the event.
Now, courtesy of 9to5Mac, which claims it received tips from insiders, we’re getting an early look at the new Music and TV apps included in the next update to macOS.
Regarding the Music app, Apple has made a few tweaks to freshen things up. For starters, the Cupertino, California tech giant is putting vibrant colours back in the sidebar.
The sidebar also extends all the way to the top of the window and includes a better-looking search bar. On top of that, Apple has also flattened the UI by taking away most of the gradient shadow featured in the current version of macOS.
9to5Mac says the Music app, related to iTunes by design, can also sync specific Apple devices like iPhones and iPods.
The new Movie app, in contrast, is not as transformative in the looks department as its modernized sibling. The gradient grey is back, and the sidebar does not extend to the top. The search bar goes back to the right.
The new office is set to focus on Tile’s cloud services, scaling its tracking partnerships with other Bluetooth-enabled device manufacturers and expanding its growing online sales.
“We’ve hired the leader for the office. He’s already hired a couple of people. We’re searching for an office and are in a temporary space right now. We’re in recruiting mode, screening resumes, arranging interviews and scaling quickly,” said CJ Prober, Tile’s Winnipeg-born chief executive officer in an interview with MobileSyrup.
“The primary reason [for opening an office in Vancouver] was access to a broader talent pool to scale the team quickly… We actually went through an evaluation of the different markets in Canada. There are some great engineering hubs in Montreal, the Toronto area and Vancouver of course, which is where we landed. The primary reason for Vancouver was time zone and the short direct flight up here,” said Prober.
The company’s recent ‘Tile Mate’ and ‘Tile Pro,’ are the first devices Tile has released that feature replaceable batteries. Before the Mate and Pro, including even with the now discontinued Style and Sport initially released in back in 2017, all the older Tile trackers that featured a built-in battery lasted roughly a year in most cases.
Tile currently has partnerships that feature its tracking technology in several other manufacturer’s devices, including products from Bose, Sennheiser, Anker, Plantronics, Skullcandy, Qualcomm and more. The company’s trackers are also featured in products like Vancouver-based Herschel Supply Co.’s various bags and the mobile accessory maker Nomad’s products.
Tile has hired a head of engineering for its Vancouver office and is currently in the process of growing its team of backend engineers, says Prober. The company also has plans to continue expanding its San Mateo, California office in the future.
Canada is an important market for Tile, says Prober. Regarding Canadian sales, Tile has experienced a 135 percent increase over the past two years, along with a 110 percent growth regarding the company’s retail footprint across the country. Along with current Canadian retailers, including Costco and Best Buy, Prober says Tile has plans to expand into selling its trackers at more Canadian stores throughout 2019.
Following the Vancouver expansion, Tile also plans to open additional offices in Europe and Asia.
This expansion comes roughly a year after news broke that 30 people were laid off from the company, along with halting hiring 10 potential new employees, according to TechCrunch. The layoffs occurred a year after the company raised a $25 million USD ($33 million CAD) in a series B round of funding. The layoffs were reportedly the result of disappointing holiday sales of its products.
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