Il 2021 di Apple, promesse e premesse di un treno in corsa - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/il-2021-di-apple-promesse-e-premesse-di-un-treno-in-corsa/
https://www.macitynet.it/il-2021-di-apple-promesse-e-premesse-di-un-treno-in-corsa/
macitynet.it
Il 2021 di Apple, promesse e premesse di un treno in corsa
Abbiamo ancora l'albero di Natale in casa (si toglie per l'Epifania) e briciole di pandoro o panettone – a seconda di quale sia la vostra inclinazione
La fine di un equilibrio internazionale, la fine di un sistema, di un ordine mondiale: come avviene? E come si gestisce? E soprattutto, a chi pensano quelli di Foreign Affairs quando scrivono questo dossier? È un'astratta ricerca di politica internazionale oppure si cominciano ad esplorare i segnali deboli della nostra contemporaneità? Siamo insomma già tutti morti e cerchiamo di rendercene conto?
Money quote: "Eventually, inevitably, even the best-managed order comes to an end. The balance of power underpinning it becomes imbalanced. The institutions supporting it fail to adapt to new conditions. Some countries fall, and others rise, the result of changing capacities, faltering wills, and growing ambitions. Those responsible for upholding the order make mistakes both in what they choose to do and in what they choose not to do.
But if the end of every order is inevitable, the timing and the manner of its ending are not. Nor is what comes in its wake. Orders tend to expire in a prolonged deterioration rather than a sudden collapse. And just as maintaining the order depends on effective statecraft and effective action, good policy and proactive diplomacy can help determine how that deterioration unfolds and what it brings. Yet for that to happen, something else must come first: recognition that the old order is never coming back and that efforts to resurrect it will be in vain. As with any ending, acceptance must come before one can move on. "
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-12-11/how-world-order-ends
Money quote: "Eventually, inevitably, even the best-managed order comes to an end. The balance of power underpinning it becomes imbalanced. The institutions supporting it fail to adapt to new conditions. Some countries fall, and others rise, the result of changing capacities, faltering wills, and growing ambitions. Those responsible for upholding the order make mistakes both in what they choose to do and in what they choose not to do.
But if the end of every order is inevitable, the timing and the manner of its ending are not. Nor is what comes in its wake. Orders tend to expire in a prolonged deterioration rather than a sudden collapse. And just as maintaining the order depends on effective statecraft and effective action, good policy and proactive diplomacy can help determine how that deterioration unfolds and what it brings. Yet for that to happen, something else must come first: recognition that the old order is never coming back and that efforts to resurrect it will be in vain. As with any ending, acceptance must come before one can move on. "
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-12-11/how-world-order-ends
Foreign Affairs
How a World Order Ends
Just because an order is in irreversible decline does not mean that chaos or calamity is inevitable. But if the deterioration is managed poorly, catastrophe could well follow.
La storia della quale non si sta parlando dalle nostre parti: i suicidi a bordo delle navi da crociera bloccate con i loro equipaggi in quarantena
Money quote: "Cruise ships were an epidemiological nightmare during the early days of the pandemic—combining prolific international travel with line dancing, endless buffets, and indoor karaoke—and they’ve also been a disaster for the mental health of some of their crew. Separated from families, confined mostly to tiny cabins, with no obvious legal recourse and at times no pay, sailors experienced a more extreme version of the household lockdowns that have sent people tumbling into depression."
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-cruise-ship-suicides/
Money quote: "Cruise ships were an epidemiological nightmare during the early days of the pandemic—combining prolific international travel with line dancing, endless buffets, and indoor karaoke—and they’ve also been a disaster for the mental health of some of their crew. Separated from families, confined mostly to tiny cabins, with no obvious legal recourse and at times no pay, sailors experienced a more extreme version of the household lockdowns that have sent people tumbling into depression."
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-cruise-ship-suicides/
Bloomberg.com
The Cruise Ship Suicides Began After the Last Passengers Left
Confined mostly to tiny cabins, crew members found themselves forced to stay aboard—sometimes without pay—and struggling to cope with a monthslong lockdown.
Nel 2021 Leica potrebbe presentare una nuova "M" a pellicola più economica dei due modelli attualmente inc catalogo (due a pellicola!! La MP e la M-A)
Money quote: "The new 35mm Leica will have to be appreciably different from the MP and M-A in order to squash the price without destroying the surprisingly strong market for those cameras. But the new Leica will also have to be appreciably similar to the MP and M-A, or perhaps the still-popular M6, in order to inspire sales to begin with."
https://petapixel.com/2021/01/02/what-a-new-budget-friendly-leica-m-35mm-camera-might-be-like/
Money quote: "The new 35mm Leica will have to be appreciably different from the MP and M-A in order to squash the price without destroying the surprisingly strong market for those cameras. But the new Leica will also have to be appreciably similar to the MP and M-A, or perhaps the still-popular M6, in order to inspire sales to begin with."
https://petapixel.com/2021/01/02/what-a-new-budget-friendly-leica-m-35mm-camera-might-be-like/
Peta Pixel
What a New, Budget-Friendly Leica M 35mm Camera Might Be Like
In the eyes of many, 35mm film photography was snuffed out in the early 2000s. But a small, dedicated fan base has continued to smolder. For all intents and purposes, Leica launched the 35mm camera. And it seems that nearly a century later, they are still…
L'uso delle immagini, dal Rinascimento a Instagram - il mio articolo per Anobii
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/01/04/luso-delle-immagini-dal-rinascimento-a-instagram/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/01/04/luso-delle-immagini-dal-rinascimento-a-instagram/
Anobii Blog
L'uso delle immagini, dal Rinascimento a Instagram - Anobii Blog
Riccardo Falcinelli, che è una autorità nel campo della grafica e dell'illustrazione, ha scritto un nuovo libro, "Figure", che spiega in modo chiaro e comprensibile come funzionano le immagini e come vanno usate
La ricchezza dei collegamenti e la povertà di Kinshasa.
Money quote: "When a metropolis the size of Paris has only 13 departing flights per day, it challenges my existing mental model of a city’s necessary ingredients, such as industry, tourism, or trade. That is, big city = big economy. Kinshasa is a surprising break from historical patterns, labeled by Harvard economist Edward Glaeser as “poor-country urbanisation.”
To see why, let’s look at the world’s megacities (population is greater than 10 million people)."
https://pudding.cool/2018/07/airports/
Money quote: "When a metropolis the size of Paris has only 13 departing flights per day, it challenges my existing mental model of a city’s necessary ingredients, such as industry, tourism, or trade. That is, big city = big economy. Kinshasa is a surprising break from historical patterns, labeled by Harvard economist Edward Glaeser as “poor-country urbanisation.”
To see why, let’s look at the world’s megacities (population is greater than 10 million people)."
https://pudding.cool/2018/07/airports/
The Pudding
What Airport Traffic Tells Us About the World's Megacities
Last year, Daniel Knowles wrote an account of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a city of 13 million people. One of his stats led me down a rabbit hole: Kinshasa has 13 departing flights per day.
La struttura della lingua inglese e un approccio pragmatico alla scrittura permetterebbero -con la tecnologia di oggi- di avere testi fisarmonica che si allargano e si accorciano come si vuole. Come questi.
Money quote: "Parametric Press enables its readers to control how much information they see via a slider that has 4 options: "TL;DR", "Essentials", "Highlights", and "Everything". This post explores whether this feature would be useful in documentation. My initial impression is that the ROI does not justify the effort."
https://kayce.basqu.es/blog/information-control
Money quote: "Parametric Press enables its readers to control how much information they see via a slider that has 4 options: "TL;DR", "Essentials", "Highlights", and "Everything". This post explores whether this feature would be useful in documentation. My initial impression is that the ROI does not justify the effort."
https://kayce.basqu.es/blog/information-control
kayce.basqu.es
A UI That Lets Readers Control How Much Information They See
Parametric Press enables its readers to control how much information they see via a
slider that has 4 options: "TL;DR", "Essentials", "Highlights", and "Everything".
This post explores whether this feature would be useful in documentation.
My initial impression…
slider that has 4 options: "TL;DR", "Essentials", "Highlights", and "Everything".
This post explores whether this feature would be useful in documentation.
My initial impression…
Apple per le aziende non è più Calimero - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-per-le-aziende-non-e-piu-calimero/
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-per-le-aziende-non-e-piu-calimero/
macitynet.it
Apple per le aziende non è più Calimero
Secondo un fornitore di strumenti di gestione degli apparecchi della Mela, ci sono 20 milioni di apparecchi Apple usati nelle imprese, in rapidissimo aumento
Pensieri carini. Google ha trasferito il dominio Duck(.)com a DuckDuck, il motore di ricerca concorrente. Come minimo avrà avvelenato il Cname...
Money quote: "Search giant Google acquired the Duck.com domain name in 2010 with the acquisition of On2, a video codec company.
Today, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg confirmed to me that the Duck.com domain name had been transferred to DuckDuckGo’s possession."
https://www.namepros.com/blog/confirmed-duck-com-transfers-to-duckduckgo.1113728/
Money quote: "Search giant Google acquired the Duck.com domain name in 2010 with the acquisition of On2, a video codec company.
Today, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg confirmed to me that the Duck.com domain name had been transferred to DuckDuckGo’s possession."
https://www.namepros.com/blog/confirmed-duck-com-transfers-to-duckduckgo.1113728/
NamePros
news - Confirmed: Duck.com Transfers to DuckDuckGo
Recently, Jamie Zoch (@Yofie) questioned whether search engine DuckDuckGo had acquired the Duck.com domain name from Google.
Search giant Google acquired the Duck.com domain name in 2010 with the...
Search giant Google acquired the Duck.com domain name in 2010 with the...
Dieci anni di Mac App Store: la rivoluzione che è normalità - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/dieci-anni-di-mac-app-store-la-rivoluzione-che-e-normalita/
https://www.macitynet.it/dieci-anni-di-mac-app-store-la-rivoluzione-che-e-normalita/
Macitynet.it
Dieci anni di Mac App Store: la rivoluzione che è normalità
Il negozio delle app con il quale Apple ha cambiato la storia (e l'economia) del Mac entra oggi nel suo secondo decennio
Chi l'ha detto che il 2020 è stato un buon anno? C'è stato di meglio. Le migliori letture del 2018 secondo Hacker News
Money quote: "I'd like to know which books HN read in 2018. Which of these would you recommend? Which of these surprised you, because they are not the usual suspects."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661546
Money quote: "I'd like to know which books HN read in 2018. Which of these would you recommend? Which of these surprised you, because they are not the usual suspects."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661546
Effetto Brexit: sospesi 80mila domini .eu di aziende e cittadini britannici - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/effetto-brexit-sospesi-80mila-domini-eu-di-aziende-e-cittadini-britannici/
https://www.macitynet.it/effetto-brexit-sospesi-80mila-domini-eu-di-aziende-e-cittadini-britannici/
macitynet.it
Effetto Brexit: sospesi 80mila domini .eu di aziende e cittadini britannici
Conclusa la transizione dell'uscita del Regno Unito dall'Ue, parte il blocco per i domini .eu riservati ai cittadini e alle imprese dell'Unione
Forwarded from Riccardo
La copertina per la prima audiocassetta di tilde ~. L'ha chiesta un ragazzo giorni fa e adesso sto chiudendo le grafiche. Mi piace, ma qualcosa ancora non torna. Se l'idea supera la notte domani passo in tipografia.
9 tecnologie e 1 professionista di cui le pmi non potranno fare a meno nel 2021 - il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/01/07/pmi-tecnologie-2021/
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/01/07/pmi-tecnologie-2021/
WIRED.IT
9 tecnologie e 1 professionista di cui le pmi non potranno fare a meno nel 2021
Dal multi-cloud all'intelligenza artificiale as a service, dai chatbot agli strumenti per riciclare vecchi pc, ecco 10 idee per digitalizzare una piccola e media impresa
Una lunga analisi della NPR con una bella intervista per cercare di capire alcuni passaggi di quello che è accaduto a Washington.
Money quote: "Now, there was a failure of planning. There was a failure of deployment. There are ways that this could have been prevented. The fact that we got ourselves into this mess in the first place is the real problem. So, while there are clearly sympathies within law enforcement to the demonstrations, to the Trump administration, to the kinds of conspiracy theories that they are in league with, I don't think that that is the way to understand what happened."
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/01/07/613802462/how-the-storming-of-the-capitol-was-and-wasnt-about-police
Money quote: "Now, there was a failure of planning. There was a failure of deployment. There are ways that this could have been prevented. The fact that we got ourselves into this mess in the first place is the real problem. So, while there are clearly sympathies within law enforcement to the demonstrations, to the Trump administration, to the kinds of conspiracy theories that they are in league with, I don't think that that is the way to understand what happened."
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/01/07/613802462/how-the-storming-of-the-capitol-was-and-wasnt-about-police
Come si faceva backpacking quando era veramente backpacking, cioè negli anni Settanta. La totale mancanza di informazioni? Check.
(Comunque, questo tizio è veramente un americano, eh. Belle foto però.)
Money quote: "My first impetus to want to travel was reading Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass—an ode to the diversity of geography. After that I suddenly got this urge to travel, something I had never really had before. Then a friend of mine told me he was moving to Taiwan for a while and invited me to come visit him there. So then I concocted a plan to take photographs in Taiwan and Japan because my father's friend had a contact for me in Japan also.
I knew nothing about Asia, or even travelling; I had never even been out of New England. I knew nothing about what to expect. I went to the bookstores and it was really hard to find any information. There were these Fodor's guidebooks for people who had a lot of money. I didn't have any money. They barely covered places like Taiwan, so these books weren't of any use to me. There was no internet, of course, and the libraries didn't have much. I travelled kind of blindly because I had to."
https://www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/1218/kelly.html
(Comunque, questo tizio è veramente un americano, eh. Belle foto però.)
Money quote: "My first impetus to want to travel was reading Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass—an ode to the diversity of geography. After that I suddenly got this urge to travel, something I had never really had before. Then a friend of mine told me he was moving to Taiwan for a while and invited me to come visit him there. So then I concocted a plan to take photographs in Taiwan and Japan because my father's friend had a contact for me in Japan also.
I knew nothing about Asia, or even travelling; I had never even been out of New England. I knew nothing about what to expect. I went to the bookstores and it was really hard to find any information. There were these Fodor's guidebooks for people who had a lot of money. I didn't have any money. They barely covered places like Taiwan, so these books weren't of any use to me. There was no internet, of course, and the libraries didn't have much. I travelled kind of blindly because I had to."
https://www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/1218/kelly.html
Perceptivetravel
The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s
Kevin Kelly, a writer and speaker best known as a futurist, goes back in time to talk about his early travel years being a backpacker in Asia.
Apple, adesso devi rifare tutti i tuoi prodotti - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-adesso-devi-rifare-tutti-i-tuoi-prodotti/
https://www.macitynet.it/apple-adesso-devi-rifare-tutti-i-tuoi-prodotti/
macitynet.it
Apple, adesso devi rifare tutti i tuoi prodotti
Apple, Apple Silicon, Mac ARM, Opinioni
Alla ricerca di Vittorio G. Rossi - il mio articolo per Anobii
Money quote: “Mode, manie, tendenze, disattenzioni. Anche invidie e talvolta ideologie. Ci sono molti motivi per cui un autore può cadere nel dimenticatoio, tra cui anche quella più banale ma probabile: nessuno si ricorda più di lui. ”
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/01/08/alla-ricerca-di-vittorio-g-rossi/
Money quote: “Mode, manie, tendenze, disattenzioni. Anche invidie e talvolta ideologie. Ci sono molti motivi per cui un autore può cadere nel dimenticatoio, tra cui anche quella più banale ma probabile: nessuno si ricorda più di lui. ”
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/01/08/alla-ricerca-di-vittorio-g-rossi/
Anobii Blog
Alla ricerca di Vittorio G. Rossi - Anobii Blog
L'autore ligure non viene più pubblicato da almeno mezzo secolo. Eppure, a cavallo della Seconda guerra mondiale è stato una delle voci più interessanti del panorama letterario italiano. Su Anobii trovate (quasi) tutti i suoi lavoro. Ma la vera domanda è:…
Negli Stati Uniti il mercato immobiliare è in piena bolla da tempo. Vivendo a Milano, mi sento molto americano anche io. Qui notizie pre-covid
Money quote: "Since February 2012, when the price declines associated with the last financial crisis ended, prices for existing homes in the United States have been rising steadily and enormously. According to the S&P/CoreLogic/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index (which I helped to create) as of September, the prices were 53 percent higher than they were at the bottom of the market in 2012.
That means, on average, a house that sold for, say, $200,000 in 2012 would bring over $300,000 in September."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/business/housing-boom-how-long-can-it-last.html
Money quote: "Since February 2012, when the price declines associated with the last financial crisis ended, prices for existing homes in the United States have been rising steadily and enormously. According to the S&P/CoreLogic/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index (which I helped to create) as of September, the prices were 53 percent higher than they were at the bottom of the market in 2012.
That means, on average, a house that sold for, say, $200,000 in 2012 would bring over $300,000 in September."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/business/housing-boom-how-long-can-it-last.html
NY Times
The Housing Boom Is Already Gigantic. How Long Can It Last? (Published 2018)
The economist Robert Shiller says the rise in housing prices is the third biggest since 1913. The biggest boom ended disastrously in 2006.
C'è baruffa nell'aria, ovvero: un problema di collezionismo - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/01/collezionismo-urania/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/01/collezionismo-urania/
Fumettologica
C'è baruffa nell'aria, ovvero: un problema di collezionismo
Qualche considerazione sul collezionismo, partendo da Urania e da un caso di ristampe degli stessi romanzi all'interno della stessa collana.