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It is a confirmed security risk.
Apple confirms that it is no longer supporting Quicktime for Windows - engadget.com
Apple confirms that it is no longer supporting Quicktime for Windows
If you somehow still have it installed, get it off your machine pronto.
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This month we have a presentation from Sam Macalister, Autodesk Australia, on soon to be released Autodesk BIM 2017 products. Can’t be any more specific that that as some are not yet announced!
What's new: Autodesk BIM 2017 - Sponsored by A2K Technologies
When: Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Where: Jasmax 2 Marston Street Parnell Auckland (From the top of the stairs, turn right at reception, meeting space past the café area)
Please join us from 5.30pm:
- 6:00pm : Welcome and Introduction
- 6:05pm : Presentation
- What is new in the Autodesk 2017 BIM product range. Samuel Macalister (Senior Technical Sales Specialist - BIM, Autodesk Australia) will present a range of new and revised BIM related Autodesk products and services arriving soon.
- 7.15pm: RUGAKL News
- AGM will be May - Call for nominations, volunteers, agenda items
- 7.30pm: Wrap up & Open Forum until 8:00pm
Please RSVP attendance via Meetup, for catering & facility purposes
$5 donation (receipt available) for Drinks and Nibbles.
A Meeting Register is taken for NZIA CPD Points.
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It was interesting to try Microsoft Cognitive Services & Bots after seeing the keynote presentation* from the recent Build conference. I thought www.captionbot.ai did quite well with this photo of Alfie considering the mix of elements in the image.
Writing a caption for a dog photo is amusingly impressive but this real application of cognitive computing is magical:
* Click on the time below to launch the relevant section of the Build Day 1 Keynote video:
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I first heard this when it was uploaded in February 2016 but it’s timely to share given the recent news of her death.
I was familiar with Dame Zaha Hadid’s work but Desert Island Discs gives some insight into Zaha Hadid, the person. Due to copyright restrictions her chosen eight music tracks are trimmed to 10 second clips but that just leaves a fascinating interview.
Vale Dame Zaha Hadid, who leaves a remarkable legacy.
BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Dame Zaha Hadid - 2016-02
Kirsty Young's castaway is the architect, Dame Zaha Hadid.
The first woman to be awarded architecture's highest honour, the Pritzker Prize, she designed the Aquatic Centre for London 2012, Glasgow's Riverside Museum and has twice won the Stirling Prize - first for the MAXXI museum in Rome and secondly for her design for the Grace Academy school in Brixton, London. She recently became the first woman in her own right to receive the RIBA Gold Medal.
She was born in Baghdad in 1950 where her father was a prominent member of the opposition National Democratic Party. After attending school there, she travelled to Switzerland and England to boarding school before returning to London in 1972 to study at the Architectural Association.
In 1983 she won her first competition to design the Peak Leisure Club in Hong Kong. It gained her international recognition though it was never built: her first building was the Vitra Fire Station in Germany in 1993. In the late 1990s she built a contemporary arts centre in Cincinnati & a BMW car manufacturing plant in Leipzig. She won competitions to design a new opera house in Cardiff but it was never realised and her first permanent building in Britain was a Maggie's Cancer Care Centre in Scotland built in 2006. She has designed stations for the Nordpark Cable Railway in Innsbruck, Austria and in 2010 the Opera House in Guangzhou, China. In 2014 she became the first woman to win the Design Museum's Design of the Year Award for the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
She was made a Dame in 2012 for services to architecture.
Image Credit: Home > ZHAPress > Zaha Hadid Portraits : Mary McCartney
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