Since 2010
Air New Zealand presents Summer Wonderland
Air New Zealand are at it again, this time with a funny and touching take on a Christmas classic. Almost all of it applies to Australia as well, although there was some Kiwi in there that I didn’t understand.
The whole things summarises my experience of Christmas in the southern hemisphere quite nicely: cards with wintry scenes and songs about roaring fires do not work here.
Doesn’t stop retailers trying though…
How the Circle Line rogue train was caught with data
A mystery, data cleansing, charts, pattern recognition, Python, and trains. This one’s got it all!
What’s the point in buying a game on physical media, only to be asked to download over 9GB of software before even playing it once? This is Dishonoured 2 on PS4, and I’d like to give a shout-out to Arkane Studios for doing a piss-poor job. Asking players to download such an enormous amount of data is careless, and there will be a significant number of players even in well-developed areas of the globe who cannot even consider a download of this size.
From TidBITS:
Thunderbolt 3 relies on the USB-C physical connector and, with the appropriate adapters, supports nearly all common peripheral-connection and networking protocols, including USB 2, USB 3, FireWire, Thunderbolt 2, Ethernet, and DisplayPort, and by extension, HDMI, DVI, and VGA.
The reason confusion afflicts this space is that a USB-C port on another computer may support just USB, USB plus display and networking protocols, or all of that plus Thunderbolt 3.
This confused me when I was looking for accessories for my recently-purchased Dell XPS 13. Goodness knows how average consumers manage to traverse this hot mess.