I've been waiting for this news, as you might tell from my post, I need another head. As for "two heads are better than one," there is a wonderful article about a truly remarkable person(s) in Minnesota with two heads that is doing splendidly (metabolically) and may redefine our stereotypes of a 'person'. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel. Actually, she/they have two heads, spinal chords, hearts, and stomachs. They raise all kinds of wonderful social issues regarding privacy, marriage, procreation, and the law. For example, what is she/they ran for President? Would we have a leader that could speak to both sides of the aisle at once? Argue both sides at once? Veto and pass a bill at the same time? Be for and against every controversial subject? My god, Ms. Hensel(s) may be the PERFECT POLITICIAN! Two head are better than one, politically speaking.
"We have known each other many years, but this is the first time you've come to us for counsel or for help. We can't remember the last time you invited us to your house for a cup of coffee, even though our sysadmin is godmother to your only child. But let's be frank here. You never wanted our friendship. And you feared to be in our debt."
"I didn't want to get into trouble."
"I understand. You found paradise on the Internet. You had a good trade, you made a good living. Symantec protected you and there were credit card laws. So you didn't need a friend like us. Now you come and say 'Slashdot, give me justice.' But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer friendship. You don't even think to call us 'Slashdot.' You come into our site on the day our daughter is to be married and you ask us to do counsel - for advice on some OTHER site."
"I ask you for social networking."
"That is not social networking. Your Facebook is a social network."
"Let them suffer then as I have suffered."
[Slashdot is silent]
"How much shall I mod you?"
[Slashdot turns away dismissively]
"Timothy, Timothy, what have we ever done to make you treat us so disrespectfully? If you'd come to us in friendship, this scum who ruined your online life would be suffering this very day. And if by some chance an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become our enemies. And then, they would fear you."
"Be my social network... Slashdot."
[Slashdot at first shrugs, but upon hearing the title, lifts its login, and a humbled Timothy posts the form]
"Good."
[Slashdot confirms his login for Timothy in a paternal gesture]
"Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter's wedding day."
[Slashdot turns to the Geek] "Give this job to a moderator. We want reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried away. We're not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker thinks... "
I have done this with 2 1/4" and 4'x5" negatives. Fine grain films have an effective resolution of about 8000dpi and actually record in 3D (not like a stereoscopic camera, more like a hologram) which is actually a problem rather than an advantage. The other problem can be the mask. If you use a regular film scanner, even a $1,000 Nikon or Olympus film scanner, you get refractive glare that highlights the grain in each layer of color film and reduces the resolution. I have found wet-mount drum scanners to work much better by using a liquid that has the same refractive index as the medium. Those scanners cost a lot - $15,000 - $60,000. There is a wet-mount flat bed scanner from Epson that is priced around $1,000 that might do, but I have not used it. BTW, wet mount drum scans take a lot of time, like hours for 4"x5" at 8,000dpi. Even a regular Nikon film scanner can take five minutes to scan a 35mm negative at maximum (~4,000dpi) resolution.
I'd wait for a full frame 2.25" back for a Hasselblad with 200 megapixels, probably as good as any film could be. There should be one available around 2018 for less than $5K.
Yes, that is what I read when researching blu-ray verses HD-DVD, and I thought it would be its downfall. Sony has managed to create its own market and tied every loose end to a patent or license agreement. It was an amazing piece of business. I think they get a royalty on every blank disc too. The MPAA and RIAA must love it too, as you can track to the source of every publishing. I bet that even the government of China loves it. Hell, our department of insecurity must love it too. Actually, all those people who have capital equipment invested in DVD manufacturing must love it as well, because smaller publishers are not going to be $tepping up from DVD-R anytime soon. It should also help the streaming media businesses justify a higher cost basis. Talk about win-win, blu-ray has it all.
If anyone thinks they will get anywhere near 250mpbs of throughput without a SLA (and the $$$ premium that goes with it), then I would like to offer them some ocean front property I have in Colorado. The link may run at 250mbps, but 100BASE-T will choke the pipe in 3 seconds. The VDSL2 DSLAM will probably be up-linked by a OC4 circuit. It is, after all, the phone company.
I was part of Open Systems Interconnection, OSI. We were pushing one of those many technologies like XNS, CHAOSnet, DECnet, IPX, SNA, and ATM/SONET that 'competed' with TCP/IP (NCP had been beaten back by then;^). Before the days of NAT, I had a "very persuasive" presentation that showed the Internet running out of 32-bit IP addresses by 1995 (China and India were my big closers that silenced a lot of TCP wonks). OSI had a 'better' addressing scheme that did everything -- distinguished end systems (ES) from intermediate systems (IS), facilitated class of service, extended addressing to the transport/session/presentation layer services, incorporated MAC layer addressing, facilitated source routing, provided network management hooks, and would give you a blow job that pealed the cover off a plenum cable. It was the ultimate networking addressing scheme. The routing vendors, who were accustomed to shoving the whole network layer address into a 32-bit register, said they couldn't implement a 20+ byte NSAP address, even though they only had to route on a small portion of it. In the 1980s, that was probably true. Most of OSI died (X.500, ASN.1 and a few others survived), partly due to its massive scope (like ADA), and partly due to the fact that the authors ignored the IETF and most of the people who implemented the Internet. Much of what OSI tried to do is now being done by the IETF on their own schedule and their own mandate. To the victors go the spoils and the spillage.
Before many of us die of old age, we will look back at these things called computers and marvel at their simplicity. Someday, they will marvel at ours.
The court actually meant that Microsoft could patent fat, you know, the stuff that so many of you think fills the space between Mr. Ballmer's ears. Now that they have the patent, they can charge 89 euros per pound above a BMI of 18. In Germany, that adds up to about 200 billion euros. Now, why would Microsoft get a patent on fat? It is soft ware.
I remember this monitor and used, briefly, the Viewsonic version. It was good with Photoshop (though the color correction was a bit of a pain). However, it did not work at all with Premiere because is could not keep up with even 24fps video. The product manager told me that it was never intended for video editing, in spite of the allure.
They just "nickel and dime you to death." Next thing, they will change you for every time you get up from your TV or PC to go to the bathroom. Unlike the airlines, they almost have a local monopoly. Why don't they just raise their rates and be done with it?
It seems amazing that we have avoided something like the 1783 eruption that lasted for two years and killed over a hundred thousand. Can you imagine air traffic disrupted for years? BTW, the same thing could happen to us from the Aleutians.
. . . you can't fix it in the implementation. They have sent themselves down this path and are too far to turn back. Their only hope is to make it too proprietary for anyone outside Microsoft to understand. IE9 must use the IRS tax code interface, which will render it indecypherable and, therefore, unusable.
. . . by a few years, perhaps a few millennia. There have been similar tools used by English departments for over a decade. It might just be that the CS departments are better funded or get more press. It would be easier to spot plagiarism in a thesis than a code base, as originality often trumps concise prose in written works bound for humans.
Linus Torvalds was once accused of copying Andy Tanenbaum's MINIX to create Linux, a charge that both Linus and Andy deny. Many open source programmers have told me that it is 'easy' to refactor code without copying it. Everything from changing the naming conventions, dependencies, source ordering, and logic (e.g., a do-while instead of a for loop) are so obvious that I am sure someone has written a program to automate the process.
In some states doing something like this could be construed as "sexual relations with a minor" (i.e., yourself). Theoretically, that could land you in jail for 5-10 years and forever be labeled a pedophile.
'Sex' once meant intercourse whereby the female could be impregnated. Now it can mean anything, including petting, phone sex, Internet sex, and sexting using SMS. Someday, it might mean alluding to sex through indirect references such as these. Eventually, it might even mean any arousal of the autonomic nervous system. You may someday get busted for having a wet dream. I am sure that will never happen until, of course, it does happen.
The BBC said the 1783 eruption killed tens of thousands and caused a mini ice age -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8624791.stm. If that happened today, it could, at least, shutdown air travel for months and maybe even reverse global warming (while killing tens of thousands). Such a deal.
Breaking News -- MPAA announces "Premium Movie Trailers" for $1.99. Jack Valenti was quoted, "all the best parts of the movies are in the trailer anyway, so why give them away?" Theaters plan "Premium Popcorn" baggies filled with corn oil and salt for $1.99 (no popcorn included). Jack Valenti was quoted, "great value since most of the calories are in the oil anyway."
I heard this thing just showed up in the lab after a bright flash of light vaporized a lab table. It has a voice modulator with a teutonic accent, and it was holding a letter of recomendantion from the Office of the Governor of California.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been waiting for this news, as you might tell from my post, I need another head. As for "two heads are better than one," there is a wonderful article about a truly remarkable person(s) in Minnesota with two heads that is doing splendidly (metabolically) and may redefine our stereotypes of a 'person'. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel. Actually, she/they have two heads, spinal chords, hearts, and stomachs. They raise all kinds of wonderful social issues regarding privacy, marriage, procreation, and the law. For example, what is she/they ran for President? Would we have a leader that could speak to both sides of the aisle at once? Argue both sides at once? Veto and pass a bill at the same time? Be for and against every controversial subject? My god, Ms. Hensel(s) may be the PERFECT POLITICIAN! Two head are better than one, politically speaking.
"We have known each other many years, but this is the first time you've come to us for counsel or for help. We can't remember the last time you invited us to your house for a cup of coffee, even though our sysadmin is godmother to your only child. But let's be frank here. You never wanted our friendship. And you feared to be in our debt."
"I didn't want to get into trouble."
"I understand. You found paradise on the Internet. You had a good trade, you made a good living. Symantec protected you and there were credit card laws. So you didn't need a friend like us. Now you come and say 'Slashdot, give me justice.' But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer friendship. You don't even think to call us 'Slashdot.' You come into our site on the day our daughter is to be married and you ask us to do counsel - for advice on some OTHER site."
"I ask you for social networking."
"That is not social networking. Your Facebook is a social network."
"Let them suffer then as I have suffered."
[Slashdot is silent]
"How much shall I mod you?"
[Slashdot turns away dismissively]
"Timothy, Timothy, what have we ever done to make you treat us so disrespectfully? If you'd come to us in friendship, this scum who ruined your online life would be suffering this very day. And if by some chance an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become our enemies. And then, they would fear you."
"Be my social network... Slashdot."
[Slashdot at first shrugs, but upon hearing the title, lifts its login, and a humbled Timothy posts the form]
"Good."
[Slashdot confirms his login for Timothy in a paternal gesture]
"Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter's wedding day."
[Slashdot turns to the Geek] "Give this job to a moderator. We want reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried away. We're not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker thinks... "
I have done this with 2 1/4" and 4'x5" negatives. Fine grain films have an effective resolution of about 8000dpi and actually record in 3D (not like a stereoscopic camera, more like a hologram) which is actually a problem rather than an advantage. The other problem can be the mask. If you use a regular film scanner, even a $1,000 Nikon or Olympus film scanner, you get refractive glare that highlights the grain in each layer of color film and reduces the resolution. I have found wet-mount drum scanners to work much better by using a liquid that has the same refractive index as the medium. Those scanners cost a lot - $15,000 - $60,000. There is a wet-mount flat bed scanner from Epson that is priced around $1,000 that might do, but I have not used it. BTW, wet mount drum scans take a lot of time, like hours for 4"x5" at 8,000dpi. Even a regular Nikon film scanner can take five minutes to scan a 35mm negative at maximum (~4,000dpi) resolution.
I'd wait for a full frame 2.25" back for a Hasselblad with 200 megapixels, probably as good as any film could be. There should be one available around 2018 for less than $5K.
Yes, that is what I read when researching blu-ray verses HD-DVD, and I thought it would be its downfall. Sony has managed to create its own market and tied every loose end to a patent or license agreement. It was an amazing piece of business. I think they get a royalty on every blank disc too. The MPAA and RIAA must love it too, as you can track to the source of every publishing. I bet that even the government of China loves it. Hell, our department of insecurity must love it too. Actually, all those people who have capital equipment invested in DVD manufacturing must love it as well, because smaller publishers are not going to be $tepping up from DVD-R anytime soon. It should also help the streaming media businesses justify a higher cost basis. Talk about win-win, blu-ray has it all.
Are you sure a government came up with it?
If anyone thinks they will get anywhere near 250mpbs of throughput without a SLA (and the $$$ premium that goes with it), then I would like to offer them some ocean front property I have in Colorado. The link may run at 250mbps, but 100BASE-T will choke the pipe in 3 seconds. The VDSL2 DSLAM will probably be up-linked by a OC4 circuit. It is, after all, the phone company.
. . . until it is not safe. As for the money, it never hurts to ask, which reminds me. Can anyone mod this up?
I was part of Open Systems Interconnection, OSI. We were pushing one of those many technologies like XNS, CHAOSnet, DECnet, IPX, SNA, and ATM/SONET that 'competed' with TCP/IP (NCP had been beaten back by then;^). Before the days of NAT, I had a "very persuasive" presentation that showed the Internet running out of 32-bit IP addresses by 1995 (China and India were my big closers that silenced a lot of TCP wonks). OSI had a 'better' addressing scheme that did everything -- distinguished end systems (ES) from intermediate systems (IS), facilitated class of service, extended addressing to the transport/session/presentation layer services, incorporated MAC layer addressing, facilitated source routing, provided network management hooks, and would give you a blow job that pealed the cover off a plenum cable. It was the ultimate networking addressing scheme. The routing vendors, who were accustomed to shoving the whole network layer address into a 32-bit register, said they couldn't implement a 20+ byte NSAP address, even though they only had to route on a small portion of it. In the 1980s, that was probably true. Most of OSI died (X.500, ASN.1 and a few others survived), partly due to its massive scope (like ADA), and partly due to the fact that the authors ignored the IETF and most of the people who implemented the Internet. Much of what OSI tried to do is now being done by the IETF on their own schedule and their own mandate. To the victors go the spoils and the spillage.
Before many of us die of old age, we will look back at these things called computers and marvel at their simplicity. Someday, they will marvel at ours.
The court actually meant that Microsoft could patent fat, you know, the stuff that so many of you think fills the space between Mr. Ballmer's ears. Now that they have the patent, they can charge 89 euros per pound above a BMI of 18. In Germany, that adds up to about 200 billion euros. Now, why would Microsoft get a patent on fat? It is soft ware.
I remember this monitor and used, briefly, the Viewsonic version. It was good with Photoshop (though the color correction was a bit of a pain). However, it did not work at all with Premiere because is could not keep up with even 24fps video. The product manager told me that it was never intended for video editing, in spite of the allure.
They just "nickel and dime you to death." Next thing, they will change you for every time you get up from your TV or PC to go to the bathroom. Unlike the airlines, they almost have a local monopoly. Why don't they just raise their rates and be done with it?
It seems amazing that we have avoided something like the 1783 eruption that lasted for two years and killed over a hundred thousand. Can you imagine air traffic disrupted for years? BTW, the same thing could happen to us from the Aleutians.
. . . you can't fix it in the implementation. They have sent themselves down this path and are too far to turn back. Their only hope is to make it too proprietary for anyone outside Microsoft to understand. IE9 must use the IRS tax code interface, which will render it indecypherable and, therefore, unusable.
WSpock, "the solution is transparent to the user."
Kirk, "now everyone knows why Kligons looked a scant shifty."
. . . by a few years, perhaps a few millennia. There have been similar tools used by English departments for over a decade. It might just be that the CS departments are better funded or get more press. It would be easier to spot plagiarism in a thesis than a code base, as originality often trumps concise prose in written works bound for humans.
Linus Torvalds was once accused of copying Andy Tanenbaum's MINIX to create Linux, a charge that both Linus and Andy deny. Many open source programmers have told me that it is 'easy' to refactor code without copying it. Everything from changing the naming conventions, dependencies, source ordering, and logic (e.g., a do-while instead of a for loop) are so obvious that I am sure someone has written a program to automate the process.
That is what we said about slavery for over 100 years.
Just goes to show what can happen when you give something 4-5 billion years to debug.
In some states doing something like this could be construed as "sexual relations with a minor" (i.e., yourself). Theoretically, that could land you in jail for 5-10 years and forever be labeled a pedophile.
'Sex' once meant intercourse whereby the female could be impregnated. Now it can mean anything, including petting, phone sex, Internet sex, and sexting using SMS. Someday, it might mean alluding to sex through indirect references such as these. Eventually, it might even mean any arousal of the autonomic nervous system. You may someday get busted for having a wet dream. I am sure that will never happen until, of course, it does happen.
The BBC said the 1783 eruption killed tens of thousands and caused a mini ice age -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8624791.stm. If that happened today, it could, at least, shutdown air travel for months and maybe even reverse global warming (while killing tens of thousands). Such a deal.
Who wants to bet that the draft was forged?
Breaking News -- MPAA announces "Premium Movie Trailers" for $1.99. Jack Valenti was quoted, "all the best parts of the movies are in the trailer anyway, so why give them away?" Theaters plan "Premium Popcorn" baggies filled with corn oil and salt for $1.99 (no popcorn included). Jack Valenti was quoted, "great value since most of the calories are in the oil anyway."
Someday, she is going to wake up from this with a seven pound, eight ounce hangover. Then let us see how aroused she is.
Q. What do you call a "male nymphomaniac"?
A. Redundant.
I heard this thing just showed up in the lab after a bright flash of light vaporized a lab table. It has a voice modulator with a teutonic accent, and it was holding a letter of recomendantion from the Office of the Governor of California.