I HATE APPLE

it's not easy to fit data to ten different nonlinear PDEs at once especially w/ phase changes and shit

that's what physical oceanography was like

it's fun to be able to look at the barometer / hygrometer / thermometer and a map and know which way the wind will be blowing tomorrow but i still need to be looking at a meteorology-for-dummies book while i think it through

can you recommend a good meteorology-for-dummies book?

http://www.amazon.com/Weather-Golden-Guide-Paul-Lehr/dp/1582381593

http://www.amazon.com/Living-By-Chemistry-Weather-Preliminary/dp/1559537027

http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/physics/kinetic-theory-thermodynamics/ideal-gases/

still looking for some more rigorous lower division stuff that is not theory but is actual meteorology ... that MIT high school link could be community college out here

i need to look at earth science resources but that i am a college prep teacher and kids don't learn that after sixth grade here so i'm not sure where to look

the NOAA and scripps oceanography has links but those are also geared toward climate change rather than practical meteorology

unfortunately the connection between praxis and use is getting really tenuous (cf apple computers)

RE: Peak, I've never fully understood those programs when most current DAW software has all of those features, plust the ability to have multi-tracking, which I find very useful. I use Digital Performer, and I often bring in different versions of the same track so I can A/B them. Mastered vs unmastered, restored vs unrestored etc.

doesn't logic have a way to do these things?

i would think apple would work like adobe maybe and keep adding side apps to handle these side tasks

thanks Dan, I will check those out. I really just need a straight WAV editor, won't be using multitrack. I did occasionally use Peak to A/B old vs. remastered versions.

I'm not sure, but I think the major DAW programs (Logic, Pro Tools, Digital Performer etc) should be able to do everything Peak did, plus quite a bit that you'll never need, but maybe a few things you'll like. Adobe Audition I think is their audio engineering program. There are cheaper WAV editors. I actually use a cheap program called Fission all the time. Open up an mp3, chop it up, normalize it real quick, fade in/out etc. Wavs or MP3s.

ooh Fission looks perfect, thank you. I'll check it out this weekend.

Garageband is another cheap option for that kind of editing.

Wave Editor is another option I keep handy for that sort of thing.

really understanding the weather is the effing best and i recommend it to everyone.

i did atmospheric physics as an undergrad but i learnt far more "pracctical weather forecasting" once i started doing observational astronomy. just getting used to clouds, and familiar with the relevant ranges of pressure, dew point, humidity, etc. and looking at local radar/infrared cams

u + k: http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeseastconusir.html

yeah it's one of those things (like celestial mechanics or hobby electronics) where you have to experience the phenomena to really get a sense for how it works beyond just some jargon and basic understandings

really understanding the weather is the effing best and i recommend it to everyone.

I shoulda been a meteor(ologist)

I should do that because I already think about the weather all the time anyway

some people walk through adiabatic condensation in an airmass saturated with water vapor, others just get wet

meteorologists do it... in an airmass saturated with water vapor

while this thread is up, can someone recommend a WAV editor program for the Mac that is like Peak but is not Audacity? I am happy to pay money for it, but BIAS just went out of business so I can't buy a new copy of Peak LE.

I use Amadeus. The pro version is expensive, but it's been indispensable. http://www.hairersoft.com/index.html

60 bucks isn't expensive for those kinds of features, if it works well. Looks like a good program for a lot of uses. It's not going to replace whatever they're using in mastering studios or whatever, but for home purposes...

Reaper is amazing, and is basically pay-if-you-like, with no restrictions.

Now 10.8 has twitter integration I am getting a pasword reset email from Twitter everyday saying something is trying to access my account. Can't be sure it is OS X but it only started since I upgraded.

FWIW, once I had entered my Twitter account in the Mail, Contacts, & Calendars system preferences much of the integration weirdness went away.

That sucks a bunch

of broccoli

achtung euler: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/08/07/save-as

is there any reason to upgrade to mountain lion?

if you're on lion it's less hateful? if you're on snow leopard, no

IF you want your battery life to take a massive hit, upgrade away.

whoa http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/08/tests-show-mountain-lion-may-indeed-degrade-battery-life/

Some users in Apple's forums reported potential fixes, including repairing disk permissions

christ those forums are the pits

lol yeah i nearly stopped reading at that point

I just started laughing so hard I almost choked when I read that, thanks stet

btw mountain lion is awesome and all the swipey motions on the trackpad are even better with added NOTIFICATION CENTER SWIPE

I've also noticed, oddly, that it seems to be more intelligent about when to put my laptop to sleep compared to Lion?

uggh @ that "save as" thing, I have already used it but did not notice

because of "Versions" I'm not screwed but still

surely the same thing happens even when you DON'T "save as"?

i.e. if you just close the document?

yeah. the new save as behaviour makes total sense if you're in the cuckoo new always-save world

or if you've ever used gmail.com

or wordpress.com

etc

I like that behavior but that's why the old save as is useful too, to branch docs that have their own versions too

Xp to stet

isn't this just confusion surrounding how mtn lion ~looks at~ edits? like in the Olde Worlde, you opened a document, made changes to it, and then, once you were satisfied with those changes, you committed to them and saved the document. if you decided to save-as, it just took a snapshot of the document AS IS and made a new document. then if you closed out the other one, and didn't save changes, you had the situation that seems to be so vexing for you guys.

cuz otherwise this save-as business (i haven't really run into it yet) just sounds like it mimics this behavior: open a doc, edit it, come to a point where you would like to be able to explore changes, but are happy with what you've got so far, save, then save-as for changes you want to try out, but maybe not commit to.

basically with save-as working as it does in mtn lion, invoking it says "start keeping track of these changes under a new name, leave the old document as it was when i invoked save-as". esp since it removes the terror associated with 'holy shit i've been working on this thing for hours and haven't hit save, if i do the wrong thing or if the power goes out or the cat trips the cable or w/e it will be as if NOTHING HAPPENED'. i for one welcome our new etc etc

ignore that 'esp since' apparently i forgot words

it makes branching easier and more intuitive imo

so the new "save as" does what a "save" and then a "save as" used to do?