Apple News: Dear Apple: Where Is My Mac Pro?
As I sat here today thinking about what I should write for my latest column here on SlashGear, I was distracted. I didn’t look at the latest news, like I usually do, and I wasn’t particularly interested in anything in particular. My mind was entirely dominated by one thought: the computer I was about to write the column on. As I write this, I’m working on a Mac Pro that I bought several years ago. At the time, the computer was state-of-the-art and capable of handling all kinds of tasks.
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Technology News: 10 Incredible Ways Technology May Make Us Superhuman
In the last half of the twentieth century, medical science came up with some pretty astonishing ways to replace human parts that were starting to wear out. Though the idea is commonplace now, the invention of the artificial pacemaker in the ’50s must have seemed like science fiction come to life at the time; today’s innovations routinely restore a modicum of hearing to the deaf, sight to the vision-impaired, and if a pacemaker won’t cut it, we can just replace that faulty heart like the water pump in your old Ford.
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Programming News: HTTP as Imagined versus HTTP as Found
With any complex system there is always a conflict between intent and implementation, and with protocols there is a always a mismatch between specification and reality. If you make a specification too small, implementation specific behaviour creeps in, and if you make it too long, no-one has a chance of implementing it correctly. A good specification has to strike a balance between prescriptive to descriptive, explaining how things should work, but begrudgingly admitting how existing implementations behave. HTTP is no exception.
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Photography News: Taking A Closer Look – The Magic of Macro Photography
Looking through a macro lens allows you to see the details you missed. This chocolate candy takes on a whole new appearance. It was just a chocolate disc covered in tiny candies, a crunchy treat: now, it is an interesting subject that shows depth and character. The macro lens makes you escape into the world of details. You may see things you never noticed, like the reflection of something else.
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