Nope. I actually have used Linux, and the camera scenario you describe is the sasme experience in both; its reconized as a removable drive. Both will prompt you to copy pictures off the device. I've NEVER had a camera not reconized by Windows. I can only conclude you're making up this story, because I've never heard it related except on/.
Spanky, the camera is Fujifilm FinePix A360.
Besides, trying to bullshit geeks is the RIAA's job, not mine...
...sure, 'cause it's a LOT harder to move the mouse 'n' click icons in Linux than it is in Windows...
...availability of quality software...
Yeah, that MS-Paint has GIMP beat somethin' fierce. If you're thinking Adobe, enjoy paying $649 for functionality the average Ubuntu user has built-in.
...reliability...
Hint: An Apache server is NOT a web server run by Native Americans. It's used by many providers for a reason. Guess what that reason is?
...and hardware compatability.
Installed Ubuntu 6.10/XP dual-boot on my work and one of my home PCs. XP needed me to hunt down drivers for my video card, TV card, NIC, and sound card. Ubuntu recognized 'em all and I was watching TV on it 20 minutes later. Yay, TVtime!
Still not convinced? Friend of mine asked me to get their PC to recognize their digital camera. Took a driver disk before Windows would recognize the cam. I plugged it into my Ubuntu box....
...and lo and behold, pics!
Linux is starting to get device drivers down better than Windows, if you're willing to look.
Simply pulling troops inside the bases and proclaiming that we aren't going to act in the defense of foreign countries would shatter Korea and probably take Japan, Russia, and China with them.
I see. Which does precisely what to the stability of Asia and its markets? Surely you're not suggesting an all-around trade embargo, are you?
It would probably escalate a Nuclear action in the middle east and with Pakistan and India,
Ah, yes, because fallout wafting its way through the atmosphere toward us is a GOOD thing, right?
The threat is already there and we currently pay them off for not warring. We give Egypt, Syria aid to keep them quite on Israel and I think we are starting to Give Aid to the Palestinians again if peace talks progress more.
These folks have been warring for 1000+ years over ideological/religious differences. A suicide bomber isn't looking for a payout on THIS world.
And to get out of our own economical problems, We could ignore the UN and honor our NATO alliances and end up with a good old fashioned nation building war in the process of defending out NATO allies.
...against the Asian juntas that took power after the region destabilized, right?
Isolationism is the flip side of US policy now, and like any extreme, should be avoided as a general policy.
...with the solution being: Use the "My Briefcase" feature in Windows. I had this set up for a client that wanted his email accessible on multiple stations.
Take the.PST, copy to server. Set your sync to overwrite, both ways. The client jus' has to remember to sync it before/after Outlook.
AFAIK, Doc is STILL using this setup.
Pretty? No. It works though, and has been used by many a geek over the years..
Which would normally be enough, except that the United States has an imbalance of power, and really can take on almost the entire world at once.
Uh, no.
Dear Servicemember:
We realize that you were due to retire in 2008. However, as we're now fighting EVERYONE, your enlistment has been extended...
...to 2108. Thanks for serving, and have a friendly-fire-free day!
Love, Uncle Sam
Seriously, folks... While I'm as proud as any military brat concerning the amount of rear the US armed forces has the capability to kick, we are NOT at the point where we can take on the world.
When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to the home server.
Programs affected: Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Money 2007, and SyncToy 2.0 Beta. Additionally, there have been customer reports of issues with Torrent applications, with Intuit Quicken, and with QuickBooks program files. Our support team is currently trying to reproduce these issues in our labs.
Finally, they say:
This issue may occur because of a recently discovered problem with Windows Home Server shared folders and with certain programs.
If you absolutely have to have an office example then how about my situation. I work for one of the largest insurance companies in North America as an application architect.
If you're talking USAA, I work with one of their lead web designers...
Between email, voice mail, phone calls (cell and desk varieties), IM and people just "stopping by to ask a question" my day is one long interruption, and I don't even have a CrackBerry(tm) yet.
The designer I know DOES have one of those Smackberries, and STILL gets her job done. Want to know her secret? Let's look at what you said next to set up my next point:
Is my problem that I can not focus? No. It's that with the never ending interruptions in the modern office it is virtually impossible to make any headway on the design for that 500 day project when you're only able to squeeze a few minutes of the day here and there.
Whoa. As neither you, she, nor I are at the top of our respective food chains, that means we have supervisors. Folks whose job is to {in theory} make sure that OURS is getting done.
Have you gone to them to make SURE you have the space you need for a project? Our front desk intercepts initial calls. I'm pretty sure you have that working for you. Your supervisor needs to know that with everyone and their dog trying to monopolize your time, the project will have to be pushed back. Tell 'em as much. Give it a shot, 'cause it's their rear if that project doesn't break on time...
If you have an honest/decent boss, you should have enough space at this point to get enough work done.
...and if you have a PHB? Pull a Scotty and pad the hell out of your project time... They're not usually not bright enough to know the difference.
Some might say I should just learn to filter it out. Those people have never worked in a large (> 1000 people) IT shop. And the problem only gets worse the higher up the food chain you go.
Nope. I'm saying ya should enlist aid to get the workspace ya need... and the higher up the chain you go, the more likely that you can shut your office door and put the DnD sign out....
However, if a company cared about quality (and could afford it) they would have devoted your job into separate positions in which there was a full time sales person and a full time repair person. About 10 years ago, I worked for a small time PC repair shop with maybe 4 employees but I still didn't do sales and only did two computers at a time.
As indicated in my OP, we DO have a sales force... who many times are asked questions of a technical nature. I'm one of three people here that can answer those.
I'm full-time repair, yes, but enjoy helping with the weird stuff that comes up in our day. I *want* the business to grow!
When you force people to focus on multiple things at once, even if they can do it right it will lead to burnout fairly quickly.
15 years of doing this every day, at multiple locations, and no sign of burnout here! I'd suggest that the ones with burnout aren't the ones that LOVE working in this field. I'm glad I'm not one of 'em!
Interruptions do cause unexpected stress to a work environment and can really hamper things over long term.
Let me rephrase that: Interruptions are part of a work environment and can be expected in darn near every work environment.
Secondly, if you suggested this to the someone who codes in software development world they would start warming up a barrel of tar and start ripping up feather pillows.
Do you have any idea how weird it might sound to many folks that the people working on their mission-critical software don't care enough to pay attention? Try using THAT as a selling point.
Personally in my current job (neither PC repair nor Coding), I ignore interruptions and do not respond to IMs or emails due to the fact it would be rude to the client.
If your job is face-time customer-oriented, then you're jus' doing your job. If you're NOT required to have that face-time, then why NOT answer an email while waiting for a client to gather paperwork?
Don't get me wrong; I don't know your job, and am not trying to tell you how to do it. I'm just not sure why "multitasking" is a job requirement at most places when according to some on here, it's impossible.;)
Not necessarily true. Some professions will require a focus with no interruptions at all (such as someone else asking for help with an unrelated task or answering a phone). If you had a surgeon operating on you, the last thing you would want is the surgeon getting an interruption of some.
Let's look at the quote I indicated earlier:
Workers get disoriented every time they stop what they are doing to reply to an e-mail or answer a follow-up phone call because they didn't reply within minutes. Spira said workers can spend 10 to 20 times the length of the original interruption trying to get back on track.
Now, at NO point during surgery would hospital management expect a doctor to answer email or the phone. Au contraire, the hospitals ban cellular use in surgical areas as to avoid equipment interference. Likewise, it's hard to expect a doctor to have their office PC {the one receiving the email} in the surgical suite itself.
Might I be so bold as to encourage you to post another example that's more in-line with office work?
You mean like losing focus and post on some forum while work sits on their deask?(I believes 5 PCs at the moment)
You mean the PCs in varying states of diagnosis? The ones running diagnostics that won't run any faster if I watch the progress bar intently?
...and I can give a status for any of 'em while on the phone or otherwise engaged... My boss is well aware I read and post on Slashdot, but looks it as I do: learning opportunities galore.
Of course, it doesn't take a whole lot of focus to build a PC.
Guess you lost your focus; my OP said nothing about builds, which are presently so n00b-friendly a spastic monkey could slap one together. It said repair, which infers diagnosis, a task requiring some degree of focus and mental acuity.
Workers get disoriented every time they stop what they are doing to reply to an e-mail or answer a follow-up phone call because they didn't reply within minutes. Spira said workers can spend 10 to 20 times the length of the original interruption trying to get back on track.
Which is why I'd recommend against hiring employees that can't focus. Really, at any moment I may have to stop in the middle of PC repair {5 PCs on bench at current}, answer questions from anyone that calls/comes in, keep documentation current on our projects, handle any urgent incoming email/faxes/requests, and even a bit of sales if our sales force is out of the shop. It can get intense at times, but is FAR from anything I'd come even close to calling "disorienting".
If you've not a mind for the business you're in, then you're out of your mind for working in a field not suited to your abilities.
Obviously, the physical survival of the media is not the only worry, we're also aware of the fact that the.mod file I could play out of my LPT-port-sound-contraption 18 years ago is now useless because mod players and those devices are far from ubiquitous (I found the.mod format converter, but can't find any schematics for that capacitor-LPT-sound-thingy I put together back in the day).
Wow. I'd almost forgotten 'bout that player. Good thing I found your schematic here.
Just download the v1.12 and read the included file, Mp112.doc. Look for the section headed "How to make a D/A converter for five pounds" and you'll be in business!
At this point, individual neurons have been simulated (proven).
"Simulated" !== "proven". Care to differ? Fine. Can you provide a link to show the research on DAMAGED neural tissue? Say, for example, what they believe happens with metachromatic leukodystrophy? Just HOW that synaptic cross-firing works? I say a simulation model is inaccurate if it doesn't account for all possible factors. The work so far is laying a base framework, yes, but we're still so far from understanding the human CNS it's not even funny.
2) that they have higher material cost (they don't) or that there is a difference in production cost (there isn't)
Ignoring the cost of additional paperwork and monitoring 'cause of the mercury, what about the cost to our health? From another article, found here:
"The problem with the bulbs is that they'll break before they get to the landfill. They'll break in containers, or they'll break in a dumpster or they'll break in the trucks. Workers may be exposed to very high levels of mercury when that happens," says John Skinner, executive director of the Solid Waste Association of North America, the trade group for the people who handle trash and recycling. Skinner says when bulbs break near homes, they can contaminate the soil.
The same idiot rednecks that won't buy these things unless forced are the same yahoos that will use these things for rifle practice when the lights fizzle. Bet me.
You're missing the point. The entire purpose of this project is to increase our understanding of how the brain works.
I think I know what the OP is asking:
How can we be sure we have the right answer when we don't have the reference model fixed yet? Using yet another oh-so-fun car analogy:
Kinda hard to duplicate a car without knowing how it works. Sure, you COULD try to build a Ferrari, and sure, it COULD run on a steam engine... It might look the same, but wouldn't function similarly {speed-wise}...
I've never had an issue that I've fixed by repairing or reinstalling a.jpg file, or by running diagnostics on an.avi.
Makes one of us. I get 'em all the time; porn hounds installing random codecs and then complaining that "Windows freaks out when I try to view a movie!". In fact, one just THIS week.
When playing files like this, all you can hope for is that you DON'T find something...
In addition, if you can't find these disks around the house, head to their web site. The replacement OS disk/driver set generally runs from 12-30 dollars American...
You've correctly discerned that, increasingly, the "big labels" (aka "record companies") are irrelevant when it comes to recording. They still have their place, but if you want to get a good quality recording, it's no longer strictly necessary to use them as a hub for production.
Working for a few local and with a few national bands for 15 years kinda gives ya an interesting perspective on the topic.
With the advent of reasonably priced home recording software/hardware, all you need is the initial equipment outlay and most importantly, a sound engineer that knows their way 'round a board. As far as I can tell, the ONLY things that recording companies are good for are marketing and distribution... and they're screwing the pooch in those regards as well...
We should compensate artists, but there is a problem with that: when the artist starts getting big, somebody has to step in and help, and they have to get paid.
So you pay your manager and your booking agent. Where do you need the record company in the chain?
But let's not act like players are supposed to completely ignore PUOs on DVDs, they're not. Those that do are the ones that aren't working as the specs detail they're supposed to...
According to whom? If we're talking the UOP specification, I can't think of many end users that would AGREE to have their control taken from them. I'd also be willing to bet that if asked "Would you like to let the movie studio control what you watch on your legally purchased DVD, or would YOU like to choose?" darn near 100% of the users would indicate the latter. If you check the linked article above, pay close attention to the last sentence in the first paragraph.
Wonton abuse of a published spec is one of the first steps to render said spec obsolete.
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Spanky, the camera is Fujifilm FinePix A360.
Besides, trying to bullshit geeks is the RIAA's job, not mine...
...sure, 'cause it's a LOT harder to move the mouse 'n' click icons in Linux than it is in Windows...
...availability of quality software...Yeah, that MS-Paint has GIMP beat somethin' fierce. If you're thinking Adobe, enjoy paying $649 for functionality the average Ubuntu user has built-in.
...reliability...Hint: An Apache server is NOT a web server run by Native Americans. It's used by many providers for a reason. Guess what that reason is?
...and hardware compatability.Installed Ubuntu 6.10/XP dual-boot on my work and one of my home PCs. XP needed me to hunt down drivers for my video card, TV card, NIC, and sound card. Ubuntu recognized 'em all and I was watching TV on it 20 minutes later. Yay, TVtime!
Still not convinced? Friend of mine asked me to get their PC to recognize their digital camera. Took a driver disk before Windows would recognize the cam. I plugged it into my Ubuntu box....
...and lo and behold, pics!
Linux is starting to get device drivers down better than Windows, if you're willing to look.
I see. Which does precisely what to the stability of Asia and its markets? Surely you're not suggesting an all-around trade embargo, are you?
It would probably escalate a Nuclear action in the middle east and with Pakistan and India,Ah, yes, because fallout wafting its way through the atmosphere toward us is a GOOD thing, right?
The threat is already there and we currently pay them off for not warring. We give Egypt, Syria aid to keep them quite on Israel and I think we are starting to Give Aid to the Palestinians again if peace talks progress more.These folks have been warring for 1000+ years over ideological/religious differences. A suicide bomber isn't looking for a payout on THIS world.
And to get out of our own economical problems, We could ignore the UN and honor our NATO alliances and end up with a good old fashioned nation building war in the process of defending out NATO allies....against the Asian juntas that took power after the region destabilized, right?
Isolationism is the flip side of US policy now, and like any extreme, should be avoided as a general policy.
...with the solution being: Use the "My Briefcase" feature in Windows. I had this set up for a client that wanted his email accessible on multiple stations.
Take the .PST, copy to server. Set your sync to overwrite, both ways. The client jus' has to remember to sync it before/after Outlook.
AFAIK, Doc is STILL using this setup.
Pretty? No. It works though, and has been used by many a geek over the years..
The notifications... have been done before, too...
Uh, no.
Dear Servicemember:
We realize that you were due to retire in 2008. However, as we're now fighting EVERYONE, your enlistment has been extended...
...to 2108. Thanks for serving, and have a friendly-fire-free day!
Love, Uncle Sam
Seriously, folks... While I'm as proud as any military brat concerning the amount of rear the US armed forces has the capability to kick, we are NOT at the point where we can take on the world.
Rephrased: How many 12-year-olds could you take on?
From Microsoft's site:
When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to the home server. Programs affected: Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Money 2007, and SyncToy 2.0 Beta. Additionally, there have been customer reports of issues with Torrent applications, with Intuit Quicken, and with QuickBooks program files. Our support team is currently trying to reproduce these issues in our labs.Finally, they say:
This issue may occur because of a recently discovered problem with Windows Home Server shared folders and with certain programs.Fraggin' scary.
If you're talking USAA, I work with one of their lead web designers...
Between email, voice mail, phone calls (cell and desk varieties), IM and people just "stopping by to ask a question" my day is one long interruption, and I don't even have a CrackBerry(tm) yet.The designer I know DOES have one of those Smackberries, and STILL gets her job done. Want to know her secret? Let's look at what you said next to set up my next point:
Is my problem that I can not focus? No. It's that with the never ending interruptions in the modern office it is virtually impossible to make any headway on the design for that 500 day project when you're only able to squeeze a few minutes of the day here and there.Whoa. As neither you, she, nor I are at the top of our respective food chains, that means we have supervisors. Folks whose job is to {in theory} make sure that OURS is getting done.
Have you gone to them to make SURE you have the space you need for a project? Our front desk intercepts initial calls. I'm pretty sure you have that working for you. Your supervisor needs to know that with everyone and their dog trying to monopolize your time, the project will have to be pushed back. Tell 'em as much. Give it a shot, 'cause it's their rear if that project doesn't break on time...
If you have an honest/decent boss, you should have enough space at this point to get enough work done.
...and if you have a PHB? Pull a Scotty and pad the hell out of your project time... They're not usually not bright enough to know the difference.
Some might say I should just learn to filter it out. Those people have never worked in a large (> 1000 people) IT shop. And the problem only gets worse the higher up the food chain you go.Nope. I'm saying ya should enlist aid to get the workspace ya need... and the higher up the chain you go, the more likely that you can shut your office door and put the DnD sign out....
As indicated in my OP, we DO have a sales force... who many times are asked questions of a technical nature. I'm one of three people here that can answer those.
I'm full-time repair, yes, but enjoy helping with the weird stuff that comes up in our day. I *want* the business to grow!
When you force people to focus on multiple things at once, even if they can do it right it will lead to burnout fairly quickly.15 years of doing this every day, at multiple locations, and no sign of burnout here! I'd suggest that the ones with burnout aren't the ones that LOVE working in this field. I'm glad I'm not one of 'em!
Interruptions do cause unexpected stress to a work environment and can really hamper things over long term.Let me rephrase that: Interruptions are part of a work environment and can be expected in darn near every work environment.
Secondly, if you suggested this to the someone who codes in software development world they would start warming up a barrel of tar and start ripping up feather pillows.Do you have any idea how weird it might sound to many folks that the people working on their mission-critical software don't care enough to pay attention? Try using THAT as a selling point.
Personally in my current job (neither PC repair nor Coding), I ignore interruptions and do not respond to IMs or emails due to the fact it would be rude to the client.If your job is face-time customer-oriented, then you're jus' doing your job. If you're NOT required to have that face-time, then why NOT answer an email while waiting for a client to gather paperwork?
Don't get me wrong; I don't know your job, and am not trying to tell you how to do it. I'm just not sure why "multitasking" is a job requirement at most places when according to some on here, it's impossible. ;)
Let's look at the quote I indicated earlier:
Workers get disoriented every time they stop what they are doing to reply to an e-mail or answer a follow-up phone call because they didn't reply within minutes. Spira said workers can spend 10 to 20 times the length of the original interruption trying to get back on track.Now, at NO point during surgery would hospital management expect a doctor to answer email or the phone. Au contraire, the hospitals ban cellular use in surgical areas as to avoid equipment interference. Likewise, it's hard to expect a doctor to have their office PC {the one receiving the email} in the surgical suite itself.
Might I be so bold as to encourage you to post another example that's more in-line with office work?
You mean the PCs in varying states of diagnosis? The ones running diagnostics that won't run any faster if I watch the progress bar intently?
...and I can give a status for any of 'em while on the phone or otherwise engaged... My boss is well aware I read and post on Slashdot, but looks it as I do: learning opportunities galore.
Of course, it doesn't take a whole lot of focus to build a PC.Guess you lost your focus; my OP said nothing about builds, which are presently so n00b-friendly a spastic monkey could slap one together. It said repair, which infers diagnosis, a task requiring some degree of focus and mental acuity.
Which is why I'd recommend against hiring employees that can't focus. Really, at any moment I may have to stop in the middle of PC repair {5 PCs on bench at current}, answer questions from anyone that calls/comes in, keep documentation current on our projects, handle any urgent incoming email/faxes/requests, and even a bit of sales if our sales force is out of the shop. It can get intense at times, but is FAR from anything I'd come even close to calling "disorienting".
If you've not a mind for the business you're in, then you're out of your mind for working in a field not suited to your abilities.
Wow. I'd almost forgotten 'bout that player. Good thing I found your schematic here.
Just download the v1.12 and read the included file, Mp112.doc. Look for the section headed "How to make a D/A converter for five pounds" and you'll be in business!
What about those that do it for a perceived sense of necessity, rather than feeling good?
"Simulated" !== "proven". Care to differ? Fine. Can you provide a link to show the research on DAMAGED neural tissue? Say, for example, what they believe happens with metachromatic leukodystrophy? Just HOW that synaptic cross-firing works? I say a simulation model is inaccurate if it doesn't account for all possible factors. The work so far is laying a base framework, yes, but we're still so far from understanding the human CNS it's not even funny.
Ignoring the cost of additional paperwork and monitoring 'cause of the mercury, what about the cost to our health? From another article, found here:
"The problem with the bulbs is that they'll break before they get to the landfill. They'll break in containers, or they'll break in a dumpster or they'll break in the trucks. Workers may be exposed to very high levels of mercury when that happens," says John Skinner, executive director of the Solid Waste Association of North America, the trade group for the people who handle trash and recycling. Skinner says when bulbs break near homes, they can contaminate the soil.The same idiot rednecks that won't buy these things unless forced are the same yahoos that will use these things for rifle practice when the lights fizzle. Bet me.
I think I know what the OP is asking:
How can we be sure we have the right answer when we don't have the reference model fixed yet? Using yet another oh-so-fun car analogy:
Kinda hard to duplicate a car without knowing how it works. Sure, you COULD try to build a Ferrari, and sure, it COULD run on a steam engine... It might look the same, but wouldn't function similarly {speed-wise}...
'Cause she's too busy helping drunk elephants...
I just wish there was a punchline in there.
Just think of a client who has no idea what file extension associations are, and resets EVERYthing to open with WinAmp/Explorer/Adobe...
...'n' I'm not talking JUST .jpgs....
Unusual, yes, but it happens.
Makes one of us. I get 'em all the time; porn hounds installing random codecs and then complaining that "Windows freaks out when I try to view a movie!". In fact, one just THIS week.
When playing files like this, all you can hope for is that you DON'T find something...
In addition, if you can't find these disks around the house, head to their web site. The replacement OS disk/driver set generally runs from 12-30 dollars American...
Working for a few local and with a few national bands for 15 years kinda gives ya an interesting perspective on the topic.
With the advent of reasonably priced home recording software/hardware, all you need is the initial equipment outlay and most importantly, a sound engineer that knows their way 'round a board. As far as I can tell, the ONLY things that recording companies are good for are marketing and distribution... and they're screwing the pooch in those regards as well...
...that they'd have to send in to have the batteries replaced.
So you pay your manager and your booking agent. Where do you need the record company in the chain?
According to whom? If we're talking the UOP specification, I can't think of many end users that would AGREE to have their control taken from them. I'd also be willing to bet that if asked "Would you like to let the movie studio control what you watch on your legally purchased DVD, or would YOU like to choose?" darn near 100% of the users would indicate the latter. If you check the linked article above, pay close attention to the last sentence in the first paragraph.
Wonton abuse of a published spec is one of the first steps to render said spec obsolete.