iCloud Photos gets right everything that Apple Music gets wrong. Like Marco, I can imagine many reasons why Apple took a different route with music than the clean-slate approach they took with photos. I’m not in a position to judge what Apple should have done. All I’m saying is that the difference in results is stark. I understand the design and purpose of Photos (the app) on both Mac and iOS, and I understand how iCloud Photo Library is supposed to work. And, for me — and seemingly, almost everyone — that’s how iCloud Photo Library does work. You sign up, you enable it on all your devices, you wait for the initial sync to finish, and boom — now all your photos are available on all your devices, all the time.
Not one iCloud feature works reliably for me. Not calendars, not Reminders, not Photos, not Notes — nothing. In every single case I have items on one device that do not sync to my other devices.
[gallery] This is a fine book cover design
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Nadia Khodasevich-Leger (Russia, 1904 - 1982)Abstract Composition 1922
Boomer-bashing
That we are now in the midst of a carnival of Boomer-bashing is testament to the dubious triumph of generational thinking, the prevailing tendency, that is, to view social and political problems almost solely in terms of generations – itself, ironically, an intellectual legacy of the Sixties. But, as Bristow notes, the construction of Baby Boomers as a problem is also testament to a deeper anxiety, and a more profound pessimism, about the future, about our societal ability to make the world anew, to progress as a society. After all, the attack on the Sixties, as the time of the Baby Boomers’ youth, is implicitly an attack on youthful optimism and confidence in general. They had the party, runs the common metaphor brilliantly dissected by Bristow, and now it’s our job to clean up.Perhaps the nastiest part of this generational buck-passing is the extent to which it turns children against parents. Problems of the public world, problems of housing, pensions and the economy in general, are ‘rhetorically [brought] into the “home”, imbuing them with a level of emotional intensity properly reserved for private family dramas’. It turns out that the easy answers generated by the Baby Boomer cultural script are not really answers at all. They’re dead ends, distractions, scapegoats. And what’s more, they militate against the very thing we need a lot more of: social solidarity. United we stand, generationally divided we fall.
As early as the 17th century it was recognised that each ‘day’ in the Creation story might represent something far longer, preparing the way for the notion of geological epochs.
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I like this cover.
[gallery] Philosophy Club
Have you ‘always been completely truthful in your public statements about your net worth,’ my attorneys asked Donald. 'I try,’ was his reply. When they asked him about how he calculated his net worth, he noted that the figure 'goes up and down with markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings.’ Later he added that 'even my own feelings affect my value to myself.’
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Title: “The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for young readers” Shelfmark: “British Library HMNTS 10027.ee.” Volume: 03 Page: 301 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1896 Publisher: James Nisbet & Co. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 001567835
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Title: “The Angel of the Revolution: a tale of the coming Terror. … With illustrations by F. T. Janes” Author: JONES, George Chetwynd Griffith - afterwards GRIFFITH (George Chetwynd) Contributor: JANE, Frederick Thomas. Shelfmark: “British Library HMNTS 012630.h.1.” Page: 140 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1893 Publisher: Tower Publishing Co. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 001894767
