Only 2012 onwards support Continuity. I can’t remember where I read/heard it though.

Do I need one of those new big screens????

yes. Definitely.

talking of which I do love this web page. I don’t know if it works as effectively with a mouse but when scrolling down the page with a Trackpad the effect is really clever.

http://www.apple.com/uk/imac-with-retina/%5B/url%5D

yes

I have a fairly long list of favourites in my bookmarks bar and I relied on the favicon to pick the right one. Curiously if you actually edit your bookmarks on the new Safari, the favicons are still there.

Allegedly there were 1 million public beta testers of Yosemite. It surprises me that (a) none of them picked up on this (b) none of them cared (c) Apple didn’t care. It’s a shame when Apple sacrifice genuinely useful features for the sake of making it look – subjectively – prettier.

On a more practical note, I’ve upgrade to Yosemite and here’s my thoughts:

– The new look seems designed to make the screen quality worse than it was before so we all rush out to order the Retina iMac
– My Bookmarks bar no longer has site-specific icons; they all look the same. This is remarkably annoying
– My iMac is 2011 therefore too old for any of this continuity stuff. I was quite excited about being able to take my iPhone calls on my Mac, but that’s not going to happen.

Aside from that nothing has really jumped out at me yet. I am looking forward to iCloud Photos though.

Seems silly to watch it if you knew what was coming.

It’s not silly at all. I’ve watched the last 3 or 4 of these events and all of them – up until now – have kept me interested from start to finish. There were loads of rumours about the iWatch but it was still an impressive bit of kit when revealed. The Summer announcement of iOS 8 and Yosemite gave me something interesting to look forward to.

I didn’t really want to hear all that again; I was expecting to hear about a lot more new stuff. When the new stuff was finally revealed I was so bored and disillusioned by the previous 30 minutes of Groundhog day that I failed to get all that excited by what to Apple must be huge technological innovations but to me was “just” a thinner/faster iPad.

Apple’s problem is that they are so mature in this marketplace that adding a Retina screen to something or making something thinner/faster/lighter is the minimum the market is expecting.

I was a bit underwhelmed by the announcements. Half an hour of stuff I already knew followed by stuff that confirmed the many rumours. Granted I might be tempted by an iPad Air 2 and the new iMac is probably ace, but I couldn’t help feeling that Cook, Schiller and even Federighi were a bit nervous about how to live up to the hype.

“It’s been too long”

😕

The ponds kept getting bigger for this fish 😉

I’m sure my parents must have spent time with me in the very early years and perhaps I simply can’t remember, but (a) I don’t remember having homework at primary school (b) I don’t recall regularly working with my folks on secondary school homework. I was incredibly bright though 😉

I’m fairly confident we will make the time

Sadly you can’t make time if you’re on the road before the kids are even awake and getting back when it’s time for them to go to bed. I get this impression this is a genuine problem many families face.

they’re taught to do it differently now

true. I remember some of the very early maths homework with my lad was about number bonds to 10. I had to Google it to learn that all it meant was numbers that add together to make 10 😆

Pimpmaster_jazz raises a good point about the parent’s input. My wife and I have 3 kids. Two are in first school (year 1 and 3) and the other is only 4 months old. My wife is still on maternity leave and I work from home most days and hence have time to spend with my kids most evenings. I recognise this puts us in a strong position compared to many parents yet we still feel we struggle to give them the level of support we want to help them with homework, reading etc. How parents who are both working long days support their children through school is beyond me.

finer details of the question escaping me in my rush to answer the question.

Actually, those who answer 20 are ignoring the finer details of the question as jon1973 points out

Sorry for your rant being hijacked by puerile maths fun 😉

sub gear

I think that’s what I have

My 661 top almost needs to be peeled on and off. Comfy though

If your using the laptop as an amp and you have your music on the laptop then what function do you think the sonos will perform?

from the OP:

…connect a CONNECT to my laptop and then stream music to the speakers without need for an amp

I’ve given you a clue 😉

EDIT I’ve made the clue even bigger

I already shop in Aldi but will shop there even more knowing I can pay by CC and earn some cash back.

Having stood trackside at downhill races it’s very clear what the noisiest mountain bikes are. You might be fighting a losing battle 😉

In your example Mike it’s a very different situation but it does point out that for every RoW user who is polite, diplomatic and knows how to read a map, there are many who aren’t and don’t. This is why the word “right” in right of way is an unfortunate word because it makes people defensive of those rights, whether they have the facts on their side or not.

Loving the GT Fury with bar ends

The way he handled it is the standard I’d expect from all of who us who are privileged to have rights of way, but I confess the thank you card was a lovely touch. I’m glad he got a successful resolution. I’ve been in a similar situation myself but in my instance I retreated and went back with my map another day to prove the RoW exists (I was not far from home).

These situations can and do arise because sometimes maps are wrong or are changed. I have 2 copies of OS24 that show a local trail to be a footpath in one and a bridle way on the other. It’s important that in these situations we don’t lose access for what may be little more than a mapping or signage error. Which reminds me I must check the definitive map…

Be patient and diplomatic with landowners; don’t be drawn into conflict. Thanks for posting

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and my eyes don’t see a nice looking Stooge up there^

It looks like a shopping bike 😕

I like iPhoto

iPhoto is on its deathbed. Apple will be pulling the plug next year sometime and replacing with their cross-platform Photos app.

It’s been a while since I used Picasa but one of its strengths was being able to monitor multiple file locations for photos and automatically bring them in Picasa itself.

I have a Unit but if I was shopping again I’d have a good look at the Cannonsnails.

It’s all about the ups with roadies 😉

King of the Mountain wasn’t invented for the downhills

Where is the fun in that?

I think people over-complicate Strava; it records your times and lets you easily compare against others. People have been doing this since bikes were invented. It was fun then and it’s fun now…but even easier with Strava. It’s just a tool.

People really use Strava a stopwatch and a logbook to compete on climbs?

In BBSB’s defence, somethings are so amazing they are worth reliving. I give you:

I used to have some Revelations with lock out on my old hard tail and used it LOADS. Not all of my riding is 100% off-road and sometimes it’s good to get out of the saddle on the road/smooth sections of uphill in between the off-road bits. In that scenario locked out forks are better than the best suspension forks.

Never had it locked out off road

Roaches trig point by stilltortoise[/url], on Flickr

Win 7 Pro with all the latest updates installed
Mac OSX Mavericks 10.9.5

I usually leave my laptop on and let it go to sleep. I then wake it from the laptop before remotely logging in from my Mac. I do this every day without issue. Only when I reboot my Windows laptop (usually after an update) do I begin to have problems. After a few hours – without me consciously doing anything to resolve it – it starts behaving again.

Actually, by the sounds of it you need to replace it with something crap that the barstewards won’t come back for 🙁

I’ll be very interested to see what you replace it with. A 27.5 Bandit?

^ what do you mean? All the ones I’ve seen in the MTB mags are essentially a regular full susser fitted out with motor and battery. You still have to pedal

Pick up the work laptop, then

😆 I knew someone would suggest that

Seriously though, I MUCH prefer using a big screen and proper keyboard than working on a laptop. It works really well except after a laptop reboot. I then spend the morning dropping the remote connection which is extremely frustrating and unproductive.

Rachel, I work from home so the Mac and work laptop are on the same network and physically in the same room. No VPN needed.

🙁

I feel for you. It was 2 years ago at about this time that I had my shed broken into. I hope you had a happy time with the Bandit.

(Assuming you’re insured) look on the bright side of the bike shopping that will now begin.

you’ll eventually become faster than the ebikes

I suspect that even Olympic XC riders may struggle to keep up on many climbs.

FWIW I keep reading about all the journos who are e-bike cynics, saying a lot of what has been said above, then they have a go…and love it.

Looks like a big ol’ heavy jacket though?

For a winter commuting jacket why is lightweight and packable anywhere near the top of the priority list? The huge advantage of Paramo is that you can wear it on a dry and warm day and you will still be comfortable. Nothing comes close in terms of breathability in my experience of waterproofs.

I 100% get why people aren’t drawn to them. I was the same. Eventually I stopped ignoring the recommendations and tried one for myself and was thoroughly impressed.

Downsides? As with any waterproof jacket, to get the most out of it, you have to keep it clean and reproof it from time to time. That puts me off using it for muddy night rides where I prefer to use a windproof that I know I can just fling in the washing machine without worrying about reproofing every so often.

Don’t knock Loddrik’s Paramo suggestion. They may not be the most stylish of waterproofs, but of all the waterproof and breathable garments I’ve tried Paramo is the one I’d choose for a winter commute. The USP for me is that they are a nice, comfortable and breathable jacket even when there’s no rain, whereas most waterproofs I’d avoid unless I knew it was going to be wet.

It’s like the bicycling equivalent of John Carpenter’s The Thing, as bikes from Kensington are consumed by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the bikes it kills.

To eclipse the original a cover song needs to be a lot more than just “better than the original” in someone’s very personal and subjective opinion. It needs to adopt the song as its own; it needs the original artist to say “fair cop, your version is brilliant”; it needs the general public to forget or never even know or care there was an original version before it.

Mark Ronson’s Valerie ticks these boxes as does Cash’s Hurt. A more contentious suggestion – since the original artist was the biggest band in the world – is this:

Apologies if already posted; this thread was killing my iPad.