I prefer to think of them as the King James and New International Version. Sometimes, though, you have to go back to the original TeX manuscripts and do your own rendering.
I've been using a Kata R-103 for about 5 years now. The bag is bulletproof. It's been all over the world from urban travels in europe to camping trips in the US. I load it up with my 1D and lots of L glass. While the pocket layout isn't perfect, the bag has protected my gear even when the cabbie knocked out of his cab and when I've abused it in the woods. Try as I might to abuse it, the bag still looks brand new. Honestly, I wish it would get a bit dirty. I feel like a poser (ok, a bigger poser than I am) it looks so new. I took the bag with me in to Haiti after the earthquake last year and everything else I took came back smelling horrible. I couldn't wash the "funk" out of some of my clothes, but that bag didn't pick it up. I'm really starting to think it has some magical properties that keep it clean.
I do have a few complaints. First of all the easy access camera section in the front isn't idiot proof. Twice now I have left it open only to have my camera fall out when I pick the bag up later. I shouldn't expect them to fix stupid. The other real problem I have is with their "system." I got the W-92 waist pack to hold my second body. Sadly it took some modification to make the system work. The bags just didn't attach to each other well enough to become one. I also made some minor modifications to the W-92 to make it work as a shoulder bag.
I've had bags from a bunch of other manufactures like crumpler (stylish, but don't protect well) LowePro (just not as good) and Tamrac (not as sturdy) and I have replaced them all with kata bags.
Oh and don't listen to the folks who tell you to get a regular pack. The velcro-in mesh lens bags and dividers do a good job keeping you glass from getting banged around all the time. I used to put my 10d in my Spire laptop bag (if you need a laptop only bag they are great,) but it took too much abuse and collected too much dust and dirt.
Did you look at the UI preview guide? Maybe it is just me, but it looks yet another attempt to change the UI for the sake of change. They have taken the concepts of menus, toolbars, dialog boxes and palettes and combined them in to one big tabbed blob that takes ups even more of the top of each window. Of course it is similar to, but in no way consistent with that annoying new interface they put on IE7. The only thing they have managed to keep consistent in windows is the need to press ^-alt-Del to login. They just don't get it.
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I noticed while looking through the newspaper adds this weekend that there isn't much of a marketing hype around Zune. It was buried in all the adds and the biggest selling point I found was that you could put your own picture on on the background. It was also interesting to see that the Microsoft name was no where to be found. I was really expecting to see front pages ads, WIRELESS in big letters and Microsofts weight behind it all. It was also interesting to note that the accessory packs advertised with it were $80-$100, I guess they are trying to beat apple at the sucker game. All in all I didn't see anything to win over the mass market.
It is all about easy of use. Look at why people pay so much more for the iPod. iPods are intuitive. People don't want to click on start bars and launch applications and navigate to files. Look at the black berry. it is the same thing easy to access e-mail and that is all that people use it for. Even for many technically savvy people the simplicity of the iPod wins out over many of the other devices.
FLAMEBAIT? what? Look at the replies, there were lots of insightful comments, not flames. Sure I was a little narrow minded in my comments, but that doesn't make it flamebait.
Two years ago I gave up using linux on the desktop. I spent 3 years using linux on my laptop and gave up after insabilities and shlib hell started consuming too much time. I went to the Mac for a best of both worlds approach. Today I find myself using very little OS software on the desktop. Adium is great, and I couldn't live without ethereal, but the rest was easy to leave behind. OpenOffice was big, slow and unstable (and I am comparing to MS office), none of the mail clients had good feature sets and stability. This is my big beef, there could be some really good innovation done here. I have never seen a mail client that was good or great. I do still use emacs, but I wasn't really counting old school OSS. Pre bubble those guys really changed to world.
On the server side apache is a great piece of code, but innovative? I guess I am to conservative on the server side to look into innovative code. Though I gather RAILS is wroth a look.
The big problem is that I am old. BitTorrent, innovative, but I don't know anything about it. I am sure there are a lot of other things out there changing to world I am just not exposed to.
I am a big open source fan, but I can't disagree with this. Most open source applications are built as replacements for commercial applications. Many try to look just like the original. Sure most have one or two innovative features, but what applications in the OS world are really innovative, especially from an end user perspective?
The problem is routers, especially high-end routers, are all about the hardware. The ability to build software based routers has been around as long as I can remember. (routed, gated, zebra, etc)
Last time I looked, none of the open hardware project had done well. When you think about it, any company that is going to build a high quality 96 port ethernet adapter for a PC with hardware to accelerate security, qos and forwarding is going to end up charging a lot of money for it. Then layer in software customization and support and you look just like any other Cisco competitor.
What you never see mentioned is channel size. If you read the article it says that they use a 100MHz wide downlink channel and a 30MHz wide uplink channel. When you consider that in the US current cellular channels run between 1.25 and 5MHz wide and the carriers usually don't have more than 25MHz per market it doesn't seem to make economic sense.
What you really need to look for in radio technology is spectral efficiency or bits per hertz per second. When you do the math this isn't that great of a technology, it just uses big channels.
It's not really all that different, but as many companies roll out IP telephony this gives them a way to have wireless extensions on the existing WLAN.
There is an IETF standard called mobile IP which has been capable of doing this for years. I have used it to roam from Fixed Etherenet to 802.11 to cellular with out losing any of my sessions. The are many implimentations available. Dynamincs is is an open source solution. Cisco has a complete line of solutions. As well as a number of other vendors. So why would you want a proprietary solution like the one from greenpacket.
Cisco has a technology implimented in their IOS which employs the concept of ACLs with dynamic routing. It is documented as unicast reverse path forwarding and basically it checks the routing table and makes sure that there is a route back to the place where the source address came from. There are a number of other check which are also enabled with the use of rpf including some simple packet validation. RPF is getting more and more detailed in later versions of IOS 12.1.x(T) has added a bucnh of new features.
Lucas has been doing this for years to get content back an forth between Skywalker ranch (near San Fran) and his screening room in LA. As a matter of fact the run real time audio from the ranch across private lines and sync it with film in LA for screenings. Good to see that digital distribution is finally going more main stream though.
Your best bet is going to be to choose a camera from a company who started in film. The often understand how important optics are. PC makers just pack features in and who cares about color accuracy or image clarity.
I own a Canon A50Zoom and LOVE IT. I have worked extensivly with both Olympus (GREAT) and Casio (Awful) cameras in the past and would choose a Cannon again.
BTW: If you are looking for a good printer check out the HP PhotoSmart P1000. It prints images nice enough to frame and is far more film like than a color laser. It also has a compact flash AND smartmedia slot which it can print directly from or can be used to download the images to you pc.
I have to agree. I have been using PHP for a while and love it, but when I went to work on a site that was optimized for several platforms using HTML, lighweight HTML, WML and HDML I found the same problems you discuss. I have been playing around with Apache Cocoon for a while and though the current version is not there it looks like the next release will. Short of that you might read the cocoon white paper and try to impliment their model using php. (and the publish the libraries for the rest of the world!:)
The theme E-X is available for both E and GTK. Head on over the e.themes.org and gtk.themes.org. They look great but still have some functionality problems.
Actually the CDMA standard that is used in several networks in the USA is much better than the GSM Spec. As a matter of fact both the next generation standards are based on CDMA. Basically GSM is a TDMA (Time division Multi Access) solution where are CDMA is a Spread spectrum etc solution. CDMA will allow much better call density and is much easier from an RF Planning stand point.
This isn't really a new chip, but Mot finally decided to use one DSP and one hardware platform for all their phones. Even today almost all of the processing on the phone is done in a DSP. Only the first level of processing after the reception of the signal is done analog. Everying that makes all the standards different is done in software on the DSP.
Basiclly Motorola is trying to combat the recent TI DSP adds.
Finally the embeded guys are learning that software is much cheaper to do than hardware.
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I prefer to think of them as the King James and New International Version. Sometimes, though, you have to go back to the original TeX manuscripts and do your own rendering.
I've been using a Kata R-103 for about 5 years now. The bag is bulletproof. It's been all over the world from urban travels in europe to camping trips in the US. I load it up with my 1D and lots of L glass. While the pocket layout isn't perfect, the bag has protected my gear even when the cabbie knocked out of his cab and when I've abused it in the woods. Try as I might to abuse it, the bag still looks brand new. Honestly, I wish it would get a bit dirty. I feel like a poser (ok, a bigger poser than I am) it looks so new. I took the bag with me in to Haiti after the earthquake last year and everything else I took came back smelling horrible. I couldn't wash the "funk" out of some of my clothes, but that bag didn't pick it up. I'm really starting to think it has some magical properties that keep it clean.
I do have a few complaints. First of all the easy access camera section in the front isn't idiot proof. Twice now I have left it open only to have my camera fall out when I pick the bag up later. I shouldn't expect them to fix stupid. The other real problem I have is with their "system." I got the W-92 waist pack to hold my second body. Sadly it took some modification to make the system work. The bags just didn't attach to each other well enough to become one. I also made some minor modifications to the W-92 to make it work as a shoulder bag.
I've had bags from a bunch of other manufactures like crumpler (stylish, but don't protect well) LowePro (just not as good) and Tamrac (not as sturdy) and I have replaced them all with kata bags.
Oh and don't listen to the folks who tell you to get a regular pack. The velcro-in mesh lens bags and dividers do a good job keeping you glass from getting banged around all the time. I used to put my 10d in my Spire laptop bag (if you need a laptop only bag they are great,) but it took too much abuse and collected too much dust and dirt.
Did you look at the UI preview guide? Maybe it is just me, but it looks yet another attempt to change the UI for the sake of change. They have taken the concepts of menus, toolbars, dialog boxes and palettes and combined them in to one big tabbed blob that takes ups even more of the top of each window. Of course it is similar to, but in no way consistent with that annoying new interface they put on IE7. The only thing they have managed to keep consistent in windows is the need to press ^-alt-Del to login. They just don't get it.
I noticed while looking through the newspaper adds this weekend that there isn't much of a marketing hype around Zune. It was buried in all the adds and the biggest selling point I found was that you could put your own picture on on the background. It was also interesting to see that the Microsoft name was no where to be found. I was really expecting to see front pages ads, WIRELESS in big letters and Microsofts weight behind it all. It was also interesting to note that the accessory packs advertised with it were $80-$100, I guess they are trying to beat apple at the sucker game. All in all I didn't see anything to win over the mass market.
It is all about easy of use. Look at why people pay so much more for the iPod. iPods are intuitive. People don't want to click on start bars and launch applications and navigate to files. Look at the black berry. it is the same thing easy to access e-mail and that is all that people use it for. Even for many technically savvy people the simplicity of the iPod wins out over many of the other devices.
and what do you think will power those access points? oh right POE
FLAMEBAIT? what? Look at the replies, there were lots of insightful comments, not flames. Sure I was a little narrow minded in my comments, but that doesn't make it flamebait.
Two years ago I gave up using linux on the desktop. I spent 3 years using linux on my laptop and gave up after insabilities and shlib hell started consuming too much time. I went to the Mac for a best of both worlds approach. Today I find myself using very little OS software on the desktop. Adium is great, and I couldn't live without ethereal, but the rest was easy to leave behind. OpenOffice was big, slow and unstable (and I am comparing to MS office), none of the mail clients had good feature sets and stability. This is my big beef, there could be some really good innovation done here. I have never seen a mail client that was good or great. I do still use emacs, but I wasn't really counting old school OSS. Pre bubble those guys really changed to world.
On the server side apache is a great piece of code, but innovative? I guess I am to conservative on the server side to look into innovative code. Though I gather RAILS is wroth a look.
The big problem is that I am old. BitTorrent, innovative, but I don't know anything about it. I am sure there are a lot of other things out there changing to world I am just not exposed to.
I am a big open source fan, but I can't disagree with this. Most open source applications are built as replacements for commercial applications. Many try to look just like the original. Sure most have one or two innovative features, but what applications in the OS world are really innovative, especially from an end user perspective?
Last time I looked, none of the open hardware project had done well. When you think about it, any company that is going to build a high quality 96 port ethernet adapter for a PC with hardware to accelerate security, qos and forwarding is going to end up charging a lot of money for it. Then layer in software customization and support and you look just like any other Cisco competitor.
What you really need to look for in radio technology is spectral efficiency or bits per hertz per second. When you do the math this isn't that great of a technology, it just uses big channels.
It's not really all that different, but as many companies roll out IP telephony this gives them a way to have wireless extensions on the existing WLAN.
I saw this problem a while ago with Verizon corporate. I finally had to set up my sendmail to relay through my DSL providers mail server.
To do this with sendmail use DSoutgoing.isp.net
If you need to authenticate you need to set up a default-auth-info file.
This has made mail delivery far more reliable.
There is an IETF standard called mobile IP which has been capable of doing this for years. I have used it to roam from Fixed Etherenet to 802.11 to cellular with out losing any of my sessions. The are many implimentations available. Dynamincs is is an open source solution. Cisco has a complete line of solutions. As well as a number of other vendors. So why would you want a proprietary solution like the one from greenpacket.
Cisco has a technology implimented in their IOS which employs the concept of ACLs with dynamic routing. It is documented as unicast reverse path forwarding and basically it checks the routing table and makes sure that there is a route back to the place where the source address came from. There are a number of other check which are also enabled with the use of rpf including some simple packet validation. RPF is getting more and more detailed in later versions of IOS 12.1.x(T) has added a bucnh of new features.
Lucas has been doing this for years to get content back an forth between Skywalker ranch (near San Fran) and his screening room in LA. As a matter of fact the run real time audio from the ranch across private lines and sync it with film in LA for screenings. Good to see that digital distribution is finally going more main stream though.
Your best bet is going to be to choose a camera from a company who started in film. The often understand how important optics are. PC makers just pack features in and who cares about color accuracy or image clarity.
I own a Canon A50Zoom and LOVE IT. I have worked extensivly with both Olympus (GREAT) and Casio (Awful) cameras in the past and would choose a Cannon again.
BTW: If you are looking for a good printer check out the HP PhotoSmart P1000. It prints images nice enough to frame and is far more film like than a color laser. It also has a compact flash AND smartmedia slot which it can print directly from or can be used to download the images to you pc.
I have to agree. I have been using PHP for a while and love it, but when I went to work on a site that was optimized for several platforms using HTML, lighweight HTML, WML and HDML I found the same problems you discuss. I have been playing around with Apache Cocoon for a while and though the current version is not there it looks like the next release will. Short of that you might read the cocoon white paper and try to impliment their model using php. (and the publish the libraries for the rest of the world!:)
The theme E-X is available for both E and GTK. Head on over the e.themes.org and gtk.themes.org. They look great but still have some functionality problems.
Actually the CDMA standard that is used in several networks in the USA is much better than the GSM Spec. As a matter of fact both the next generation standards are based on CDMA. Basically GSM is a TDMA (Time division Multi Access) solution where are CDMA is a Spread spectrum etc solution. CDMA will allow much better call density and is much easier from an RF Planning stand point.
This isn't really a new chip, but Mot finally decided to use one DSP and one hardware platform for all their phones. Even today almost all of the processing on the phone is done in a DSP. Only the first level of processing after the reception of the signal is done analog. Everying that makes all the standards different is done in software on the DSP.
Basiclly Motorola is trying to combat the recent TI DSP adds.
Finally the embeded guys are learning that software is much cheaper to do than hardware.