APS was basically a plot to shove an inferior product down the consumers throat using hype.
It's cited advantages where:
1) the film stays in the the cartrigde
2) you can rewind a film that is not fully exposed and use it later again
3) there is some information stored on the magnetic strip (date, exposure, etc.)
4) smaller cameras
Note that the only advantage to consumers is that they don't have to store the film strips but the cartridge. Big deal. Oh yeah, and the film remembers the date.
Which are not really advantages if you consider:
1a) no slides
1b) it's harder to process the film or make prints yourself
2) you can do that easily with normal film right now
3) is totally unnecesary, because it only matters that the film is exposed correctly [1]
4) digital cameras anyone?
Now consider the major disadvantage: A smaller film size (meaning inferior pictures) with a bigger price tag.
[1] I know, the exposure settings do have an impact on the development process, but only if the film is pushed. Photographers who do that certainly don't use APS.
Having said that I wasted $299 on a Nikon APS camera in 1997. I think I shot about a dozen APS films with it, after which it broke.
You want to insult me? Come over and fight! Berlin is the cultural center of Germany. A distant second are Hamburg and Cologne. Munich is even in the same leage.
Do you think that some guy out in nowhere, Montana would receive mail if he had to rely on market conditions to bring a postal carrier to his area? Postal service along with Public Highway programs helped paved the way for suburbia and moved people out of the inner city.
This is odd: When I wheel-scrool though a page and hit a drop-down box, the page won't scroll down anymore. I can turn the wheel as much as I want, the page won't move. So I know, that I'm trapped in some input widget, and it's easy to correct that.
In fact, I love the way the scroll wheel behaves under KDE (and most GTK appsa): The widget where the mouse is over get's scrolled. I get so irritated, when I have to use a Windows box, because of the different wheel behaviour. I always have to click to activate the widget, which I find very distracting.
Anyway, I see this bug as a feature. Just my 0,02 EUR.
Right here. I went to the bathroom when her cryfest started and came right back just before she thanked her lawyers. I guess I'm lucky that I missed the stuff in between.
BTW: LOTR was a good movie and I thought it should have gotten best screenplay adaptation, but what I'm really disappointed about, is that Amelie didn't won any of its nominations. It should have gotten every single one. Except for maybe best foreign picture, as I haven't seen the other four movies.
Yes, I know that (and so is Nicole Kidman), but I live in Germany, go fairly often to the movies, and I've not heard that movies with Travolta and Cruise are generaly not very welcome.
Some (not many) people are aware that Travolta and Cruise are scientologists, that doesn't stop them from watching the flick.
Typing apt-get doesn't qualify as updating. It's crap. You need a Windows-Update lookalike to succeed.
What kind of crack are you smoking?!
The "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" mechanism is the smoothest update-system I've yet come accross. It beats IMNSHO all other Linux upgrading systems, and everything I've seen in Windows-land hands down. (My boss swears on the SUN update mechanism, but I as of yet I haven't had a chance to look at it.)
There are only two problems I see with this system from a newbie perspective.
The user doesn't now when there are updates available, unless he runs apt-get update: This can be taken care of, by a nightly cron-job and/or a script running at startup, that informs the user per local e-mail of new updates.
The messages that debconf provides are sometimes very technical. But then again, these messages have to be technical, they can't be dumbed down to the point where they are useless. Also, almost every non-trivial message ends with "If you don't know what this all means, type foo" or some equivalent message.
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This is a standard KDE/KDM feature. No need for SuSE. It was included in 3.1. Or was it 3.0? I don't know.
Also, you don't have to lock your screen, this functionality is accessible via the K-menu.
That's the text/plain part you see. The "advertisement" is in the text/html part.
I was very irritated by that, too, until one day I was testing the HTML viewer of an e-mail client.
It's cited advantages where:
1) the film stays in the the cartrigde
2) you can rewind a film that is not fully exposed and use it later again
3) there is some information stored on the magnetic strip (date, exposure, etc.)
4) smaller cameras
Note that the only advantage to consumers is that they don't have to store the film strips but the cartridge. Big deal. Oh yeah, and the film remembers the date.
Which are not really advantages if you consider:
1a) no slides
1b) it's harder to process the film or make prints yourself
2) you can do that easily with normal film right now
3) is totally unnecesary, because it only matters that the film is exposed correctly [1]
4) digital cameras anyone?
Now consider the major disadvantage: A smaller film size (meaning inferior pictures) with a bigger price tag.
[1] I know, the exposure settings do have an impact on the development process, but only if the film is pushed. Photographers who do that certainly don't use APS.
Having said that I wasted $299 on a Nikon APS camera in 1997. I think I shot about a dozen APS films with it, after which it broke.
Regarding your sig:
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Slashdot user Arker was so kind to do just that: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=67335&cid
Thank you very much.
Of course it's complete, it does mail after all.
Yeah, but they don't care about intellectuell property either
That should be Alt-
This way, you at least have access to all the window content.
You want to insult me? Come over and fight! Berlin is the cultural center of Germany. A distant second are Hamburg and Cologne. Munich is even in the same leage.
You're my hero for the day.
Hamburg is the second biggest city after Berlin. Munich only comes third. At some point in the future, the Essen area will be bigger than Munich.
I don't even remember using them anymore. CD-RWs replace them perfectly, and LAN connectivity even more so.
With double-m.
No sqrt(1000000) is 1000. The equation x^2 = 1000000 has two solutions for x (1000 and -1000).
And this is good?
In fact, I love the way the scroll wheel behaves under KDE (and most GTK appsa): The widget where the mouse is over get's scrolled. I get so irritated, when I have to use a Windows box, because of the different wheel behaviour. I always have to click to activate the widget, which I find very distracting.
Anyway, I see this bug as a feature. Just my 0,02 EUR.
Kalle Dalheimer Experience?
Netscape 4.x does not officially supports CSS. That's why CSS sucks in Netscape.
Right here. I went to the bathroom when her cryfest started and came right back just before she thanked her lawyers. I guess I'm lucky that I missed the stuff in between.
BTW: LOTR was a good movie and I thought it should have gotten best screenplay adaptation, but what I'm really disappointed about, is that Amelie didn't won any of its nominations. It should have gotten every single one. Except for maybe best foreign picture, as I haven't seen the other four movies.
Yes, this works. And it's useful to remember, when you have to use the original vi.
But for all VIM users (note to vi users: you should really try VIM), try:
- Shift-V to go into visual line mode
- mark text with cursor keys
- hit d to delete the marked section
- use p to paste
Much better.
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Yes, I know that (and so is Nicole Kidman), but I live in Germany, go fairly often to the movies, and I've not heard that movies with Travolta and Cruise are generaly not very welcome.
Some (not many) people are aware that Travolta and Cruise are scientologists, that doesn't stop them from watching the flick.
Didn't that already happen here:Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot ?
Care to explain?
What kind of crack are you smoking?!
The "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" mechanism is the smoothest update-system I've yet come accross. It beats IMNSHO all other Linux upgrading systems, and everything I've seen in Windows-land hands down. (My boss swears on the SUN update mechanism, but I as of yet I haven't had a chance to look at it.)
There are only two problems I see with this system from a newbie perspective.