as I posted elsewhere in this thread, here's who Microsoft funds, according to ZDNet:
Microsoft indeed has provided funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution for five years, a Microsoft representative said, without disclosing how much has been granted. Microsoft funds several public policy institutes, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute, the representative said.
Microsoft indeed has provided funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution for five years, a Microsoft representative said, without disclosing how much has been granted. Microsoft funds several public policy institutes, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute, the representative said.
Yeah, I always laugh at the bloatware idea. It's funny watching people at work who use IE and have dozens of Windows open, and how long it takes them to open a new one, switch between windows, etc.
IE is slow compared to Moz. Firefox is probably slightly faster, especially on slow machines, but IMO it's really more about which browser's features you prefer at this point.
Yeah, I ran a semi-blog type thing from my site, back before I knew what a blog was. I just added text into a file, coded the formatting myself, and at the end of each month renamed the file for an archive and started a new one.
MoveableType is a radically better experience. The Luddites who are trying to say otherwise are simply wrong
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Ahh, my bad. I assumed you were using the word "even" in that context to mean "to a greater extent less than" when it was more meant as "still less than"
We measure energy in kilograms now? This is so confusing. Can we please switch back to a standard unit, like the bomb dropped at Hiroshima or football fields?
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Mankind's total energy useage per year is still MUCH less than the Sun's total output per year, and is even less than the amount of energy the sun delivers to the planet earth in a year.
That sentence makes no logical sense
Re:Want high-quality? Get a real camera!
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[b]oh - and lets not forget that it's probably only a matter of time before mobile phones get camera compnents the quality of a good digital camera[/b]
I'd actually say that's unlikely. Part of the problem with current digital cameras is that their sensors aren't big enough, and thus you wind up having a lens focusing a tiny amount of light onto the sensor.
Now, in 5 years I'm sure that you will have cell phone/PDAs with fairly high resolution cameras. But there's still going to be a lot of situations where it will be difficult to take a decent picture because: - lack of light and no flash - lack of ability to control aperature/shutter speed - problems focusing
If this was all about megapixels, the 2MP camera-phones wouldn't take pictures far shittier than my years old 1.3MP digicam could.
...they're just hunks of rock or gas or whatever moving around according to the laws of physics. What we call them is just what we find most preferable. The universe couldn't care less
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Just FYI, leaving the aperature at 2.8 always isn't necessarily desirable. I like to be able to change the aperature to get more or less depth of field
I'm a big fan of my Fuji s602z as a poor man's SLR. It doesn't have quite the quality or control of a true SLR, but nor does it have the size or the price. However it does have a 6x zoom lens, manual focus, manual white balance, manual settings for aperature and shutter speed, manual ISO, EV changes, flash strength, other settings I haven't even played with yet, a hotshoe, etc.
I upgraded to this camera from a Fuji 1400z, which was a true 1.3MP point & shoot. For anyone else who is really interested in taking pictures to get one of these midrange cameras with lots of manual control. It's a good way to get used to controlling your photography while still having the ability to take easy point & shoot pictures if you want to.
BTW, please do not take this as recommendation to buy any specific camera. I would recommend checking the major review sites and the forms at dpreview.com before making any major digicam purchase.
Does that mean I can see a one foot object 265 miles away?
A 1.2" object 26.5 miles away?
They must have bigger binoculars in "Europe, Asia and most of the Southern Hemisphere." I can see Paul Hogan now: "That's not a pair of binoculars. This is a pair of binoculars"
OK, so make a zip file containing a text file and the MP3 in some sort of password protected/encrypted archive. In the text file say something like: "The password is *** where the first star is the first letter of the first word in the filename, the second star is the third letter of the second word, and the third star is the second letter of the fourth word"
Or "The password is the last word in Slashdot's slogan"
Or "The password is the month in which Christmas occurs"
"IEEE-1394 is defined part of the SCSI-3 family of related standards, and was at one point sometimes called "serial SCSI". It is, in fact, a type of SCSI, based on the broad converage of SCSI-3, which goes beyond regular SCSI to cover several similar, "SCSI-like" technologies. In terms of signaling and some aspects of operation, IEEE-1394 really can be thought of as "serial SCSI"."
He was making statements about himself. Those are all the credentials he needs. The UCS was making statements about who they want signing their own petition. That is their own business.
And requiring credentials of someone who is going to cut open your body with a scapel isn't totalitarian to anyone but a pothead hippie.
me: So what browser are you using? customer: Browser? me: For the internet... customer: I'm using Yahoo me: You're using Yahoo as a browser? customer: I'm not sure I understand... me: What program are you using to view the internet? customer: What program? me: Are you using Internet Explorer? customer: Internet Explorer? I don't think I understand... me: How are you opening this webpage? Did you click on something to get to where you opened the webpage? customer: I just clicked it in Favorites. I have it in my Favorites me: OK, works for me
Want to know the best part? This isn't an ISP helpdesk. I work for a web hosting company. Yes, this lady apparently felt herself capable of building one.
Slashdot Mirror
Wasn't Minix already built as much "from scratch" as Linux was?
Because the Apple one works and the AOL one doesn't
We'll also never see an all-human movie, given that we're evolved from non-humans.
as I posted elsewhere in this thread, here's who Microsoft funds, according to ZDNet:
Microsoft indeed has provided funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution for five years, a Microsoft representative said, without disclosing how much has been granted. Microsoft funds several public policy institutes, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute, the representative said.
Notice any patterns?
From ZDNet, here's who Microsoft funds:
Microsoft indeed has provided funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution for five years, a Microsoft representative said, without disclosing how much has been granted. Microsoft funds several public policy institutes, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute, the representative said.
Yeah, I always laugh at the bloatware idea. It's funny watching people at work who use IE and have dozens of Windows open, and how long it takes them to open a new one, switch between windows, etc.
IE is slow compared to Moz. Firefox is probably slightly faster, especially on slow machines, but IMO it's really more about which browser's features you prefer at this point.
Yeah, I work for a web host. I don't know what all this "proposed" is. Comcast blocks port 25 outbound. Simple fact
Yeah, I ran a semi-blog type thing from my site, back before I knew what a blog was. I just added text into a file, coded the formatting myself, and at the end of each month renamed the file for an archive and started a new one.
MoveableType is a radically better experience. The Luddites who are trying to say otherwise are simply wrong
Ahh, my bad. I assumed you were using the word "even" in that context to mean "to a greater extent less than" when it was more meant as "still less than"
I retract my complaint
We measure energy in kilograms now? This is so confusing. Can we please switch back to a standard unit, like the bomb dropped at Hiroshima or football fields?
Mankind's total energy useage per year is still MUCH less than the Sun's total output per year, and is even less than the amount of energy the sun delivers to the planet earth in a year.
That sentence makes no logical sense
[b]oh - and lets not forget that it's probably only a matter of time before mobile phones get camera compnents the quality of a good digital camera[/b]
I'd actually say that's unlikely. Part of the problem with current digital cameras is that their sensors aren't big enough, and thus you wind up having a lens focusing a tiny amount of light onto the sensor.
Now, in 5 years I'm sure that you will have cell phone/PDAs with fairly high resolution cameras. But there's still going to be a lot of situations where it will be difficult to take a decent picture because:
- lack of light and no flash
- lack of ability to control aperature/shutter speed
- problems focusing
If this was all about megapixels, the 2MP camera-phones wouldn't take pictures far shittier than my years old 1.3MP digicam could.
...they're just hunks of rock or gas or whatever moving around according to the laws of physics. What we call them is just what we find most preferable. The universe couldn't care less
Just FYI, leaving the aperature at 2.8 always isn't necessarily desirable. I like to be able to change the aperature to get more or less depth of field
I'm a big fan of my Fuji s602z as a poor man's SLR. It doesn't have quite the quality or control of a true SLR, but nor does it have the size or the price. However it does have a 6x zoom lens, manual focus, manual white balance, manual settings for aperature and shutter speed, manual ISO, EV changes, flash strength, other settings I haven't even played with yet, a hotshoe, etc.
I upgraded to this camera from a Fuji 1400z, which was a true 1.3MP point & shoot. For anyone else who is really interested in taking pictures to get one of these midrange cameras with lots of manual control. It's a good way to get used to controlling your photography while still having the ability to take easy point & shoot pictures if you want to.
BTW, please do not take this as recommendation to buy any specific camera. I would recommend checking the major review sites and the forms at dpreview.com before making any major digicam purchase.
900MHz
That's 90nm...
I just told someone at work about this, and he said ".sex? What would that be for...porn sites?"
Lets just say I should hope so
You can see a 100ft object 26,500 miles away?
Does that mean I can see a one foot object 265 miles away?
A 1.2" object 26.5 miles away?
They must have bigger binoculars in "Europe, Asia and most of the Southern Hemisphere." I can see Paul Hogan now: "That's not a pair of binoculars. This is a pair of binoculars"
That's kinda like saying giving an American in Germany a German->English dictionary is actually a modification of the German language
[b]just think, all the heavy metals needed would be in the asteroid belt and it would only be an hour away[/b]
At what level of acceleration/deceleration?
OK, so make a zip file containing a text file and the MP3 in some sort of password protected/encrypted archive. In the text file say something like:
"The password is *** where the first star is the first letter of the first word in the filename, the second star is the third letter of the second word, and the third star is the second letter of the fourth word"
Or "The password is the last word in Slashdot's slogan"
Or "The password is the month in which Christmas occurs"
etc.
Yup, just like Firewire is so well accepted, and SCSI has become a standard feature of all PCs.
Just FYI:
"IEEE-1394 is defined part of the SCSI-3 family of related standards, and was at one point sometimes called "serial SCSI". It is, in fact, a type of SCSI, based on the broad converage of SCSI-3, which goes beyond regular SCSI to cover several similar, "SCSI-like" technologies. In terms of signaling and some aspects of operation, IEEE-1394 really can be thought of as "serial SCSI"."
He was making statements about himself. Those are all the credentials he needs. The UCS was making statements about who they want signing their own petition. That is their own business.
And requiring credentials of someone who is going to cut open your body with a scapel isn't totalitarian to anyone but a pothead hippie.
How about this one:
me: So what browser are you using?
customer: Browser? me: For the internet...
customer: I'm using Yahoo me: You're using Yahoo as a browser?
customer: I'm not sure I understand...
me: What program are you using to view the internet?
customer: What program? me: Are you using Internet Explorer?
customer: Internet Explorer? I don't think I understand...
me: How are you opening this webpage? Did you click on something to get to where you opened the webpage?
customer: I just clicked it in Favorites. I have it in my Favorites me: OK, works for me
Want to know the best part? This isn't an ISP helpdesk. I work for a web hosting company. Yes, this lady apparently felt herself capable of building one.