Installed it recently to read annotated PDFs I receive sometimes. I find that preview does a poor job displaying these annotations and won't even display some at all.
A huge factor in that improvement is not only that people get older, but also that fewer children die. Both is directly attributable to the existence of doctors.
So you wouldn't mind living in a house that was built according to code? Apparently your ideology is more important to you than your life or your health. Good luck with that.
The OP simply wants to take good pictures of his family and friends. He does not need a big camera that he has to haul around, he needs a camera that is small enough to have always on him, i.e. a point-and-shoot. I have heard good things about Lumix (IIRC, a Panasonic brand) although I've never owned one.
Secondly, you pay a hefty premium for Canon and Nikon gear. They do have advantages (mainly availability of secondary accessories), but you get the same features and quality for less money if you buy Pentax, Olympus or Minolta.
Not necessarily. Using the most modern farming techniques, we produce far more food than the population that grows it actually requires. The problem is, the areas that have the largest (and most quickly growing) populations, are the areas that use the least effective farming techniques.
The problem is waste in the developed world. We already produce more than enough food to feed everybody on the planet. But half of what is produced for Europe and the US is thrown out before it even reaches the consumer. Meanwhile our food is still so cheap that the sustenance farmer in Africa cannot compete. It's not that his farming techniques are not effective enough, it's that our industrialized food production is much cheaper and he can't sell his crop. He loses his livelihood and now the nation is dependent on foreign inports.
You have to ask what is the purpose of taxes to begin with...
The German word for tax is "Steuer" and it provides a hint to an answer to your question. The verb "steuern", of which "Steuer" is the noun form, means to regulate, control, govern and to steer. (E.g. a car steering wheel or a boat ruder wheel is also simply called Steuer in German.)
In other words, taxes are not only a means to provide income to the state but also a means of regulation by the state. And that is the main purpose of a tax on financial transactions. It's not a way to provide additional income (which would be marginal anyway) but to discourage behavior that is a burdon on the system.
I agree that OS X is not a walled garden (yet?), but the App Store is not optional. Some developers have elected to use that as their only distribution channel and don't offer downloads from their own website anymore.
The seams and exposure differences can be fixed with a little automatic processing. I sometimes take panoramas with my cellphone camera, a 4-year-old Sony Ericsson W570i with a 2MP sensor. Even if the source pictures are differently exposed, as in the image in the article, stitching them together with Hygins normalizes the exposure levels and the seams are unnoticeable. I believe Hygins uses enblend internally. (Of course, the panoramas still look somewhat cheap, due to JPEG artifacts and crappy optics, but sometimes a cellphone camera is all you have.)
Catch 22, SCOTUS, what do you do now? Before you answer, remember that you're not the branch with a Commander In Chief.
The Supreme Court has asserted its authority over the President and Congress for over 200 years without the need of armed enforcement. If there's a conflict between two branches of government it is up to the people (who are the found of all power) to resolve it.
Laws will always be open to interpretation and that's a good thing. If the law was automatic like code we wouldn't need courts, because the executive could just apply the appropriate law and be done with it. This would open the doors to blatant abuse and achieve an effect opposite from your intent, namely, that the laws are arbitrarily interpreted by the executive.
There's a distracting piece of paper in the corner of the picture I want to take. I have three options:
a) "staging": physically remove the paper from the scene, b) "framing": slightly move the camera so the paper is no longer in the frame, or c) "doctoring": cropping or cloning the paper out of the picture in post-production.
What is the difference between these three options except for a minor technical detail? There is no fundamental difference. I agree with the GP. Every photograph is staged, unless it was taken unintentionally.
Exactly. Slightly off-topic, you can give almost the same reply to people who think that Photoshop isn't real photography. Of course it is, it's just another tool at the photographer's disposal.
Chrome is integrated with the OS X keychain, Firefox is not. Also, until recently, Firefox generally sucked on OS X. But the latest versions are pretty decent. I was a Safari user, but switched to Chrome because it was faster, had better plug-ins and I like the rapid release cycle.
Unlikely to happen, at least in Germany. Informational self-determination has been a constitutional right since 1983. And today, in a speech celebrating the 60th birthday of the constitutional court, the director of the court said that privacy and self-determination with regard to private actors (as opposed to the state) will become even more important in the future. These are significant hurdles for any law-maker or lobbying group to overcome.
The _hypothesis_ that electronic voting is somehow less open to interpretation has been thoroughly disproven by reality in the last decade. It can also be shown to be theoretically false very easily: The integrity of the manual hand count stems from the fact that any idiot^W^W the average voter can monitor the process and be reasonably sure that no tampering occurred. An electronic voting machine^W^W^W general purpose computer is completely opaque in that regard. Ken Thompson showed 25 years ago that even an expert cannot be sure that there's no tampering unless he built the entire system from scratch (including the hardware).
A lot of database systems start out as academic research systems that are later commercialized. Examples include H-Store (commercialized as VoltDB), C-Store (commercialized as Vertica), Monet (commercialized many times, the latest incarnation is VectorWise).
Actually, the entire database field traces its roots to academic systems, starting with INGRES which was published in the 1970s by UC Berkeley.
Not if the pace of technological progress outpaces inflation. IOW, in a country where productivity keeps rising such a deal will most likely make them money in the long term until the cost of supporting an outdated technology outweighs the income from those contracts. At which point they can simply upgrade you.
E.g. when DSL was taking off in Germany, most DSL providers would offer you an upgrade which doubled the speed of your internet connection without raising the price. They got a renewed contract out of it. Now that normal ADSL speeds are maxed out they are offering much faster VDSL lines for the same price.
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The sad truth is that iCal has been getting progressively worse since OS X 10.4. The same is true for Address Book but to a lesser extent.
Installed it recently to read annotated PDFs I receive sometimes. I find that preview does a poor job displaying these annotations and won't even display some at all.
Using a Tablet As Your Primary Office Appliance.
FTFY. Report back when you do actual computing on your iPad -- like writing code or crunching scientific data.
Why do you think we must go to expensive doctors for healthcare? They haven't even existed for most of humanity.
For most of humanity the average life span was 30 years. It is now more than double than that. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
A huge factor in that improvement is not only that people get older, but also that fewer children die. Both is directly attributable to the existence of doctors.
So you wouldn't mind living in a house that was built according to code? Apparently your ideology is more important to you than your life or your health. Good luck with that.
Worst. Advice. Evar.
The OP simply wants to take good pictures of his family and friends. He does not need a big camera that he has to haul around, he needs a camera that is small enough to have always on him, i.e. a point-and-shoot. I have heard good things about Lumix (IIRC, a Panasonic brand) although I've never owned one.
Secondly, you pay a hefty premium for Canon and Nikon gear. They do have advantages (mainly availability of secondary accessories), but you get the same features and quality for less money if you buy Pentax, Olympus or Minolta.
Not necessarily. Using the most modern farming techniques, we produce far more food than the population that grows it actually requires. The problem is, the areas that have the largest (and most quickly growing) populations, are the areas that use the least effective farming techniques.
The problem is waste in the developed world. We already produce more than enough food to feed everybody on the planet. But half of what is produced for Europe and the US is thrown out before it even reaches the consumer. Meanwhile our food is still so cheap that the sustenance farmer in Africa cannot compete. It's not that his farming techniques are not effective enough, it's that our industrialized food production is much cheaper and he can't sell his crop. He loses his livelihood and now the nation is dependent on foreign inports.
Interestingly enough, after the invasion it was discovered that Iraq had a small supply of yellow cake uranium.
Was it discovered somewhere east, west, south and north of Baghdad and/or Tikrit?
I spent all day in the library where there are no TVs or radios.
Also, I'm not in the US at the moment.
You have to ask what is the purpose of taxes to begin with ...
The German word for tax is "Steuer" and it provides a hint to an answer to your question. The verb "steuern", of which "Steuer" is the noun form, means to regulate, control, govern and to steer. (E.g. a car steering wheel or a boat ruder wheel is also simply called Steuer in German.)
In other words, taxes are not only a means to provide income to the state but also a means of regulation by the state. And that is the main purpose of a tax on financial transactions. It's not a way to provide additional income (which would be marginal anyway) but to discourage behavior that is a burdon on the system.
The point is that we have more in common as human beings than what separates us as members of different nations.
For basically all of human history people have had to diagnose and treat themselves.
For basically all of human history, people didn't live past age 40.
I agree that OS X is not a walled garden (yet?), but the App Store is not optional. Some developers have elected to use that as their only distribution channel and don't offer downloads from their own website anymore.
Personal data, i.e. data that is linked to a person, belongs to the person it is about.
This is the law in the EU. The US seams to have a similar view when it comes to medical data.
The seams and exposure differences can be fixed with a little automatic processing. I sometimes take panoramas with my cellphone camera, a 4-year-old Sony Ericsson W570i with a 2MP sensor. Even if the source pictures are differently exposed, as in the image in the article, stitching them together with Hygins normalizes the exposure levels and the seams are unnoticeable. I believe Hygins uses enblend internally. (Of course, the panoramas still look somewhat cheap, due to JPEG artifacts and crappy optics, but sometimes a cellphone camera is all you have.)
Catch 22, SCOTUS, what do you do now? Before you answer, remember that you're not the branch with a Commander In Chief.
The Supreme Court has asserted its authority over the President and Congress for over 200 years without the need of armed enforcement. If there's a conflict between two branches of government it is up to the people (who are the found of all power) to resolve it.
Laws will always be open to interpretation and that's a good thing. If the law was automatic like code we wouldn't need courts, because the executive could just apply the appropriate law and be done with it. This would open the doors to blatant abuse and achieve an effect opposite from your intent, namely, that the laws are arbitrarily interpreted by the executive.
There's a distracting piece of paper in the corner of the picture I want to take. I have three options:
a) "staging": physically remove the paper from the scene,
b) "framing": slightly move the camera so the paper is no longer in the frame, or
c) "doctoring": cropping or cloning the paper out of the picture in post-production.
What is the difference between these three options except for a minor technical detail? There is no fundamental difference. I agree with the GP. Every photograph is staged, unless it was taken unintentionally.
Exactly. Slightly off-topic, you can give almost the same reply to people who think that Photoshop isn't real photography. Of course it is, it's just another tool at the photographer's disposal.
Chrome is integrated with the OS X keychain, Firefox is not. Also, until recently, Firefox generally sucked on OS X. But the latest versions are pretty decent. I was a Safari user, but switched to Chrome because it was faster, had better plug-ins and I like the rapid release cycle.
Unlikely to happen, at least in Germany. Informational self-determination has been a constitutional right since 1983. And today, in a speech celebrating the 60th birthday of the constitutional court, the director of the court said that privacy and self-determination with regard to private actors (as opposed to the state) will become even more important in the future. These are significant hurdles for any law-maker or lobbying group to overcome.
The _hypothesis_ that electronic voting is somehow less open to interpretation has been thoroughly disproven by reality in the last decade. It can also be shown to be theoretically false very easily: The integrity of the manual hand count stems from the fact that any idiot^W^W the average voter can monitor the process and be reasonably sure that no tampering occurred. An electronic voting machine^W^W^W general purpose computer is completely opaque in that regard. Ken Thompson showed 25 years ago that even an expert cannot be sure that there's no tampering unless he built the entire system from scratch (including the hardware).
A lot of database systems start out as academic research systems that are later commercialized. Examples include H-Store (commercialized as VoltDB), C-Store (commercialized as Vertica), Monet (commercialized many times, the latest incarnation is VectorWise).
Actually, the entire database field traces its roots to academic systems, starting with INGRES which was published in the 1970s by UC Berkeley.
But the title is wrong/hyperbole though, isn't it?
It's not genes which are affected, but the function they regulate in the body.
Not if the pace of technological progress outpaces inflation. IOW, in a country where productivity keeps rising such a deal will most likely make them money in the long term until the cost of supporting an outdated technology outweighs the income from those contracts. At which point they can simply upgrade you.
E.g. when DSL was taking off in Germany, most DSL providers would offer you an upgrade which doubled the speed of your internet connection without raising the price. They got a renewed contract out of it. Now that normal ADSL speeds are maxed out they are offering much faster VDSL lines for the same price.