Looks like Inception (the movie) won the "Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form" award. Was it any good? Did anyone like it?
It was OK. I did not really classify Inception as a SciFi film, however. It did refer to some nonexisting technological toys, but the link was otherwise rather tenuous, especially because almost all the action was in dream states. If forced to choose between SciFi and other categories, I would have placed it in the plain old Thriller group.
P.S. I liked the Fuck me, Ray Bradbury video which was nominated for (but did not receive) a Hugo for short dramatic presentation.
I find that hard to believe (and I'm over 50), but if true, you're in for a treat. Try anything by Connie Willis, for instance. She's written some very good novels as well as a load of short stories. Not all of her novels are science fiction (To say nothing of the dog is SciFi, while Lincoln's dreams is not; both are excellent), but most of her short stories are SciFi (try Even the queen or In the late cretaceous). Since she won a Hugo for best novel, I'm almost certain to buy a copy.
I would agree with you except that Islam is taught in many school districts in the US. Even going so far as having morning prayers. How can that be allowed in school and very few object, but having morning Christian prayers is not allowed.
Are these private (self-financed) schools or public (state-financed) schools? There is nothing wrong with having Catholic or Buddhist or Islamic or [insert other crazy dogma here] schools which are funded by their own private sources such as endowments or fees for tuition. If you know of a school in the US which is state-funded and promulgates a particular religion in its lessons, then please let us know - name and shame.
Why is it that teaching against religion is protected speech, but if the teacher were to favor religion then that is not protected?
Addressing the second part of your query first: to favor one religion is implicitly or explicitly to denigrate other religions and the lack of a religion, and thus would constitute a form of slander. It would also contravene (in any state-supported environment in the US) the Establishment clause of the first amendment to the US constitution. Favoring creationist viewpoints would be to favor a very narrow selection of religions, and to impugn others - some religions are anti-creatonist by their own dogma.
As to the first part of your query: that is not what the court decided. The teacher was not teaching against religion per se, but against the promulgation of self-evident nonsense masquerading as science and supporting a particular religious viewpoint. He apparently described creationism as "superstitious nonsense", which is neither attacking religion nor stating an untruth (incidentally, truth is an absolute defence against slander in the US). Here is a short summary of scientific viewpoints on various creationist arguments.
Which laptop can you buy now that has a 1920x1200 screen?
Not many, and probably no consumer models. They've all gone for the shortscreen 1920x1080 instead. To get a proper 1920x1200, you'll have to shop for one of the few business models where it's an option, such as Dell's m6500, and pay a premium for the extra 120 vertical pixels. Alas, Sony and HP no longer make any 1920x1200 laptops, not even for business customers.
This is one of the reasons we have not replaced our old laptop. Its processor power and RAM are adequate, and its 17" 1920x1200 display is unsurpassed. In fact, its display is a lot nicer than the 15.6" 1920x1200 on my Dell m4400 at work. I fully expect that the next laptop I get at work will be a shortscreen model.
In answer to the original question, I'm assuming that only the camera gear (DSLR, lenses, flash, etc.), laptop, and related accessories are to be carried in the backpack. I have used a few of the larger Tamrac bags, and have never been let down by them. However, I don't carry a laptop to shoots. Here are some suggestions which might be good choices:
Tamrac Expedition 8x 17" laptop and a lot of photo gear, including 2 DSLRs with lenses attached.
Tamrac Cyberpack 7 17" laptop and a lot of photo gear, but not quite as much as the Expedition 8x.
Tamrac LP8 17" laptop and similar amount of photo gear to the Cyberpack 7.
The LP8 is also convertible between backpack and rolling bag, and might be the best bet as an airline carry-on, if that's a factor (not stated in original question). Of course, if you're hoping to carry your raincoat, food, toothbrush, spare socks, etc. in the same backpack, these models are not the best choice. There are backpacks available which will do this, but they necessarily compromise on the space for photo gear.
That reason might have been made moot by the advent of different and more interesting tablet options.
I will be dumping my netbook for an Android tablet very soon because of this.
So which tablet has the 1920x1200 screen, like my 8-year-old laptop (Sony VAIO VGN-A117S)? Which ones also have a mouse and keyboard for effective interaction/editing at the pixel level? When you're dealing with pictures from a DSLR, you don't want to go below this sort of resolution. Image quality can reach the individual pixel level using a DSLR with 14Mpixels and a good lens, with data at 12-14 bits per pixel in the raw image. It's not some crappy phone camera with a miniscule detector and tiny lens, where pixel count is just a marketing number.
Capital punishment numbers are a little uncertain for China, but estimated to be appallingly large (two orders of magnitude more appalling than those of the USA). In fact, the USA was ranked fifth worldwide in total numbers legally executed in 2010. It was surpassed by Iran, Yemen, and North Korea as well as China.
On a per-capita basis, the USA is clearly not in the lead, and nowhere close to the top. In addition to the four countries listed above, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Equatorial Guinnea, Somalia, and a bunch of others have higher per capita executions. Disgracefully, the USA's score was 46 in 2010, or about 0.15 per million persons.
The EULA for the free eBook converter now contains some extra stuff, such as:
"The source code of Hamster Free eBook Converter inherits GNU GPL 3.0 rights from Calibre. You may all operations with it permitted by law. GNU GPL 3.0 restrictions must be met. You will not use Hamster Free eBook Converter for illegal purposes. You will comply with all export laws. Hamster Free eBook Converter is licensed, not sold."
which looks like it was written hastily, and
"GNU GPL 3.0
Calibre source codes: http://code.google.com/p/calibre-ebook/downloads/list
Hamster Free eBook Converter source codes: http://ebook.hamstersoft.com/en/support
License GNU GPL 3.0: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
So, they've included the GPL in their license terms, and have published the source code for the eBook converter. Looks like yet another win for GPL.
I consider it a praise to a piece of software if the only thing people can bitch about is its release numbering system.
Indeed, but even better when they don't even bitch about version numbering. Even weird versioning, like that of TeX, is forgiven when the product is exceptionally good.
I submit my punch cards to the operator and pick up the printout the next day.
Been there, done that, wept in the process. The thicker the deck of cards, the likelier the damned BOFH would return it the next day without a printout. Instead, one torn card would be sticking up, and a smirkingly polite suggestion would be offered that I re-punch it so the card reader would not reject the deck again. When the deck exceeded a whole box, the probability of this happening approached unity.
Probably so, but it's not like he has a choice in the matter. If you're running a corporate PC with Windows, you have to run some highly restrictive and cumbersome antivirus package. That's just the way it is, thanks to Windows' crappy security. Plus all the other crap the IT department might load onto their PCs: remote backup software, IT big-brother software so the IT people in India can take over your computer whenever they want, weird custom scripts, etc.
Yup, and no networking is available until the VPN loads, and that's strictly after all of the crazy antivirus, corporate policy enforcement, corporate spyware, corporate utilities, and suchlike has loaded. The Windows desktop looks like it might be able to do something, but it can't, or not until about 10 minutes after log-in (the boot to log-in prompt is only a minute or so). Note that this does not include starting Communicator, Labview, Matlab, Outlook, Office, VMware, or any other applications that might get work done.
Then there's the additional minute or more for Outlook to get started, handicapped by virus scanning and whatnot. And this is on a modern dual core laptop with 4GiB RAM and the mail file on a local disk. I even keep the Outlook data file below 1GiB by regular archiving in an attempt to speed it up. On our 8-year-old Celeron laptop at home running Lubuntu, Thunderbird loads and parses the mail structure of our 3+GiB home email database (several accounts, many folders, stored on a network drive) and is ready in a few seconds.
Don't worry. I'm sure the phone companies and the government can come to an arrangement where data they retrieve from your phone doesn't show up in the bill or logs.
Oh, for a +1 Funny mod!!!
The charge will be there in your bill; it just won't be very obvious.
The reality is that recording public acts is never going to go away.
Or, "the reality is that prejudice and bias will never go away"
One of those problems is more easily solved than the other. One requires a legal restriction on technological surveillance and recording. The other requires a drastic change to human nature. It would be nice if human nature would miraculously change, but don't hold your breath.
Given that they already open sourced CUPS, and don't have any profit in printers, it's more likely than not they would simply open source it like OpenCL, CUPS, Webkit, etc.
Apple developed OpenCL and open-sourced it under the permissive GPL. Kudos for that.
However, CUPS existed and was open-source for years before Apple adopted it in 2002 (they did not create it).
Webkit is a fork of the KHTML library which is and was under the LGPL, and thus Apple had no choice over open-sourcing it and releasing it under a permissive license.
If your relationship really needs analysis by a disinterested or arm's-length third party to survive and flourish, then perhaps at least one of you is rather narcissistic or has Aspberger's or some other social maladjustment. Fair enough in those cases (although such persons might not necessarily either seek or follow good advice), but not very compelling for the rest of us.
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Are you in the target market? No.
Note sure about this assumption in your post, since GP explicitly states he has
several IPad 2s
So whether he's in the "target" market or not, he is a repeat customer.
Looks like Inception (the movie) won the "Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form" award. Was it any good? Did anyone like it?
It was OK. I did not really classify Inception as a SciFi film, however. It did refer to some nonexisting technological toys, but the link was otherwise rather tenuous, especially because almost all the action was in dream states. If forced to choose between SciFi and other categories, I would have placed it in the plain old Thriller group.
P.S. I liked the Fuck me, Ray Bradbury video which was nominated for (but did not receive) a Hugo for short dramatic presentation.
I haven't heard of any of these people.
I find that hard to believe (and I'm over 50), but if true, you're in for a treat. Try anything by Connie Willis, for instance. She's written some very good novels as well as a load of short stories. Not all of her novels are science fiction (To say nothing of the dog is SciFi, while Lincoln's dreams is not; both are excellent), but most of her short stories are SciFi (try Even the queen or In the late cretaceous). Since she won a Hugo for best novel, I'm almost certain to buy a copy.
If R&D is cut, where do the new products come from to provide new revenue to pull the company through?
Marketing.
Senior management.
After all, the really big bonuses always go to the top executives, because leadership is the biggest and best profit center!
I would agree with you except that Islam is taught in many school districts in the US. Even going so far as having morning prayers. How can that be allowed in school and very few object, but having morning Christian prayers is not allowed.
Are these private (self-financed) schools or public (state-financed) schools? There is nothing wrong with having Catholic or Buddhist or Islamic or [insert other crazy dogma here] schools which are funded by their own private sources such as endowments or fees for tuition. If you know of a school in the US which is state-funded and promulgates a particular religion in its lessons, then please let us know - name and shame.
Why is it that teaching against religion is protected speech, but if the teacher were to favor religion then that is not protected?
Addressing the second part of your query first: to favor one religion is implicitly or explicitly to denigrate other religions and the lack of a religion, and thus would constitute a form of slander. It would also contravene (in any state-supported environment in the US) the Establishment clause of the first amendment to the US constitution. Favoring creationist viewpoints would be to favor a very narrow selection of religions, and to impugn others - some religions are anti-creatonist by their own dogma.
As to the first part of your query: that is not what the court decided. The teacher was not teaching against religion per se, but against the promulgation of self-evident nonsense masquerading as science and supporting a particular religious viewpoint. He apparently described creationism as "superstitious nonsense", which is neither attacking religion nor stating an untruth (incidentally, truth is an absolute defence against slander in the US). Here is a short summary of scientific viewpoints on various creationist arguments.
that is stupid. osx>>>linux
Indeed, your assertion is quite stupid.
I'd give you a +1 funny mod for that, but I'm the one you're replying to...
...goolies.
Still the best practical (albeit politically incorrect) response to hooligans.
Which laptop can you buy now that has a 1920x1200 screen?
Not many, and probably no consumer models. They've all gone for the shortscreen 1920x1080 instead. To get a proper 1920x1200, you'll have to shop for one of the few business models where it's an option, such as Dell's m6500, and pay a premium for the extra 120 vertical pixels. Alas, Sony and HP no longer make any 1920x1200 laptops, not even for business customers.
This is one of the reasons we have not replaced our old laptop. Its processor power and RAM are adequate, and its 17" 1920x1200 display is unsurpassed. In fact, its display is a lot nicer than the 15.6" 1920x1200 on my Dell m4400 at work. I fully expect that the next laptop I get at work will be a shortscreen model.
In answer to the original question, I'm assuming that only the camera gear (DSLR, lenses, flash, etc.), laptop, and related accessories are to be carried in the backpack. I have used a few of the larger Tamrac bags, and have never been let down by them. However, I don't carry a laptop to shoots. Here are some suggestions which might be good choices:
Tamrac Expedition 8x 17" laptop and a lot of photo gear, including 2 DSLRs with lenses attached.
Tamrac Cyberpack 7 17" laptop and a lot of photo gear, but not quite as much as the Expedition 8x.
Tamrac LP8 17" laptop and similar amount of photo gear to the Cyberpack 7.
The LP8 is also convertible between backpack and rolling bag, and might be the best bet as an airline carry-on, if that's a factor (not stated in original question). Of course, if you're hoping to carry your raincoat, food, toothbrush, spare socks, etc. in the same backpack, these models are not the best choice. There are backpacks available which will do this, but they necessarily compromise on the space for photo gear.
That reason might have been made moot by the advent of different and more interesting tablet options.
I will be dumping my netbook for an Android tablet very soon because of this.
So which tablet has the 1920x1200 screen, like my 8-year-old laptop (Sony VAIO VGN-A117S)? Which ones also have a mouse and keyboard for effective interaction/editing at the pixel level? When you're dealing with pictures from a DSLR, you don't want to go below this sort of resolution. Image quality can reach the individual pixel level using a DSLR with 14Mpixels and a good lens, with data at 12-14 bits per pixel in the raw image. It's not some crappy phone camera with a miniscule detector and tiny lens, where pixel count is just a marketing number.
I dunno, did you just multiply the wave function by its complex conjugate?
He's making a Slashdot comment, not a synthesizer
And a big WHOOSH to you, too.
Capital punishment numbers are a little uncertain for China, but estimated to be appallingly large (two orders of magnitude more appalling than those of the USA). In fact, the USA was ranked fifth worldwide in total numbers legally executed in 2010. It was surpassed by Iran, Yemen, and North Korea as well as China.
On a per-capita basis, the USA is clearly not in the lead, and nowhere close to the top. In addition to the four countries listed above, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Equatorial Guinnea, Somalia, and a bunch of others have higher per capita executions. Disgracefully, the USA's score was 46 in 2010, or about 0.15 per million persons.
The staff at some stores even thought they were employed by Apple! Same t-shirts, same lanyards, same gay banter, etc.
The EULA for the free eBook converter now contains some extra stuff, such as:
"The source code of Hamster Free eBook Converter inherits GNU GPL 3.0 rights from Calibre. You may all operations with it permitted by law. GNU GPL 3.0 restrictions must be met. You will not use Hamster Free eBook Converter for illegal purposes. You will comply with all export laws. Hamster Free eBook Converter is licensed, not sold."
which looks like it was written hastily, and
"GNU GPL 3.0
Calibre source codes: http://code.google.com/p/calibre-ebook/downloads/list
Hamster Free eBook Converter source codes: http://ebook.hamstersoft.com/en/support
License GNU GPL 3.0: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html"
So, they've included the GPL in their license terms, and have published the source code for the eBook converter. Looks like yet another win for GPL.
I consider it a praise to a piece of software if the only thing people can bitch about is its release numbering system.
Indeed, but even better when they don't even bitch about version numbering. Even weird versioning, like that of TeX, is forgiven when the product is exceptionally good.
I submit my punch cards to the operator and pick up the printout the next day.
Been there, done that, wept in the process. The thicker the deck of cards, the likelier the damned BOFH would return it the next day without a printout. Instead, one torn card would be sticking up, and a smirkingly polite suggestion would be offered that I re-punch it so the card reader would not reject the deck again. When the deck exceeded a whole box, the probability of this happening approached unity.
Probably so, but it's not like he has a choice in the matter. If you're running a corporate PC with Windows, you have to run some highly restrictive and cumbersome antivirus package. That's just the way it is, thanks to Windows' crappy security. Plus all the other crap the IT department might load onto their PCs: remote backup software, IT big-brother software so the IT people in India can take over your computer whenever they want, weird custom scripts, etc.
Yup, and no networking is available until the VPN loads, and that's strictly after all of the crazy antivirus, corporate policy enforcement, corporate spyware, corporate utilities, and suchlike has loaded. The Windows desktop looks like it might be able to do something, but it can't, or not until about 10 minutes after log-in (the boot to log-in prompt is only a minute or so). Note that this does not include starting Communicator, Labview, Matlab, Outlook, Office, VMware, or any other applications that might get work done.
Then there's the additional minute or more for Outlook to get started, handicapped by virus scanning and whatnot. And this is on a modern dual core laptop with 4GiB RAM and the mail file on a local disk. I even keep the Outlook data file below 1GiB by regular archiving in an attempt to speed it up. On our 8-year-old Celeron laptop at home running Lubuntu, Thunderbird loads and parses the mail structure of our 3+GiB home email database (several accounts, many folders, stored on a network drive) and is ready in a few seconds.
Don't worry. I'm sure the phone companies and the government can come to an arrangement where data they retrieve from your phone doesn't show up in the bill or logs.
Oh, for a +1 Funny mod!!!
The charge will be there in your bill; it just won't be very obvious.
The reality is that recording public acts is never going to go away.
Or, "the reality is that prejudice and bias will never go away"
One of those problems is more easily solved than the other. One requires a legal restriction on technological surveillance and recording. The other requires a drastic change to human nature. It would be nice if human nature would miraculously change, but don't hold your breath.
Given that they already open sourced CUPS, and don't have any profit in printers, it's more likely than not they would simply open source it like OpenCL, CUPS, Webkit, etc.
Apple developed OpenCL and open-sourced it under the permissive GPL. Kudos for that.
However, CUPS existed and was open-source for years before Apple adopted it in 2002 (they did not create it).
Webkit is a fork of the KHTML library which is and was under the LGPL, and thus Apple had no choice over open-sourcing it and releasing it under a permissive license.
Radioactive? At least update it to be TVactive or Videoactive or something.
But why would you want to prevent that? It sounds almost like evolution in action.
If your relationship really needs analysis by a disinterested or arm's-length third party to survive and flourish, then perhaps at least one of you is rather narcissistic or has Aspberger's or some other social maladjustment. Fair enough in those cases (although such persons might not necessarily either seek or follow good advice), but not very compelling for the rest of us.