It’s our final episode before the gang goes traveling for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. We talk about iFixit’s MacBook Pro teardown, disagree about Star Wars Clue, and discuss how holodecks works in the fiction of Star Trek. Plus, a packed moment of science!
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Great show guys, really excited to hear everything possible about the Bolt when it comes out. On the Visual studio you can actually develop for any type of platform really , andriod , iOs, etc as well as nice integration with things like unity it really isn’t just windows. Its a very all around tool, I used it to write some integrations into Autodesk Inventor and play with python (I know it may have been overkill for that )
book prices seem to be a subject of personal calibration. i know i mull back and forth over three-figure computer hardware prices, but would pay them without a second thought for a book. with art books, i know i have a problem with a bad fiscal pain threshold, and i do things like spending ~170 gbp for a luxury edition of the lord of the rings, the hobbit, and the silmarillion because the typography in the 50th anniversary edition i already had wasn’t good enough. i don’t know if i’d spend the money on those photos of apple products, but if it was dieter rams’ braun appliances, we’re speaking serious temptation already.
ghost in the shell i’m team nope here. not only doesn’t the world need a western remake of gits, because the story is too essentially japanese and the manga and anime are already there and still plenty good, the world most definitely doesn’t need a *hollywood* remake of it. and no, you don’t cast stupid scarlett johansson when you can, when there are equally ‘proven’ and similarly not on character choices like rinko kikuchi. she helmed pacific rim, so she technically is a zero risk choice. but whether someone is a known face in big budget films or not isn’t what this choice is about. neither is whether the actress fits the role. it’s that there is an aversion to non-white leads. there will be hands-wringing and trying to explain it away with bullshit, but that’s what it is.
vr i gotta say, i find teleportation as a mode of transportation so uninteresting i’d consider just not getting VR hardware if there is no progress past that asap. teleporting around is fundamentally not what i want to do in a VR world.
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You guys weren’t quite right on Visual Studio for Mac. It’s not just Windows apps. MSFT has made their .NET framework open source and executable on Mac and Linux now called .NET Core. VS for Mac will let you write and build and run .NET Core software like console apps and web apps on Mac. They’re also tying it into Azure for cloud deployment.
It’s based off of Xamarin Studio which MSFT acquired this year which allows you write .NET code in C# or F# to write native cross platform apps. You can write Android, iOS tvOS, macOS, Android Wear, watchOS, Windows Universal Apps, etc.
It’s impressive stuff. I’ve built and distributed an Android app and iOS app on App Store and Google Play with one codebase. And it compiles down to a native app rather than the hybrid solutions which are basically web apps wrapped by a native container.
So over Xamarin Studio, the only real additions here are bringing in .NET Core into the IDE. This is great because now you can write your back end services for your mobile apps in one place on Mac.
I’m in the Denver area, and can give you a heads up if you want a locals opinion. The new station in Denver is a very hip place to be, and a good first stop for your A7!
With regards to the Indian currency issue, from what I read it’s less about counterfeit bills, and more about people that hoard cash to avoid paying taxes. Apparently, the percentage of people paying taxes in India is crazy low, and this bill replacement was, at least partially, meant to force people who have un-taxed money to bring the money forward to be taxed, or lose it all, which is why they did it so quickly, to give those people less time to reroute their un-taxed bills. Still a bit of a mess though.
Thanks for the VS corrections, guys. Noted.
Going cross country on the train is the best way of going. The menu for Amtrak are viewable as a PDF from their site. Best round trip is Oakland to Chicago to Seattle and back to Oakland. You’ll enjoy it.
OMG, that out-song!
Kishore, I used to live in Singapore. Be sure to ring the Happiness Bell at the National Botanical Gardens. Buy clothes on Orchard Street and go over to Malaysia and get some street food. Don’t forget to get a Singapore Sling at Raffles Hotel!
Have a great train ride. Cheers
There is a name for fake news that try to create feelings and sway opinion it is called PROPAGANDA and is the populist main tool to screw the less vigilant part of the population.
Apparently, the percentage of people paying taxes in India is crazy low…
so lots of ‘smart’ people then? 🙂
The zephyr train has been pretty high on my bucket list of things to do. i’m flying to Chicago early januari to take it all the way to San Francisco. it’s 52 hours for the whole trip.
So please let us know how it was.
I wonder if it is at the point where cars will come with a cell phone blocker or a function that puts the phone in airplane mode when the car is in drive or reverse. The only function that would then have to be available would be emergency/911.
A quick note from India re: money situation. It is messed up! There are still multiple hour lines to get new money and the drama at banks is unreal. The move was more of a tax measure as noted here, but as a local put it to me, it will take many surgeries to eradicate the cancer of hoarding money and not paying taxes. Unfortunately, these lines have mostly hurt the poor in the short term.
Anyhow, thanks for the correction.
Looking forward to hearing about Kishore’s adventures in India!
In the future, when y’all plug something, would you mind putting a link in the description? You talk about Will’s Kickstarter but don’t link to it or explicitly say the title of the project. I know to search Kickstarter for “Foo”, but why not make it easier for people to find?
Also, would like to hear y’all’s thoughts on the Twitter banning of Alt-Right accounts. I don’t do the Twitter, and I’m not exactly sure what all actually makes up the Alt-Right, but I did hear the news story and thought it significant. Curious y’all’s read on it – it does seem like an anti-free speech movement within the company. Especially if you consider “Dumbledore’s” little experiment. This seems to have even more significance than the Facebook/Google anti-fake news story.