Of course, my main concern for these things is the CD-R's susceptibility to vibration, and latency for the bloody things. Digital Photography Review had a review of the latest Mavica, and they reported a latency of 15 seconds, per picture after the exposure for the bloody things, when using a flash card. Granted, it's much better while using a floppy, but still, a floppy drive or a CD-R drive aren't the fastest of media these days. That's fine and dandy for portraits and other stills, but for anything else, it makes it kind of obnoxious, if not downright useless, relegating it to the "toys" section.
Remeber the Mavica appeals to the segment of the population who "just what to take pictures". People like my Dad who can get two christmases on the same 36 exposure roll. These people aren't whipping off 3-4 shots in a row.
And although he could handle the cable hooking up part no problem the steps to actually down load the pictures would cause endless phone calls to me for support. A CD is easy (just a shiny record) and he can handle explorer.
If you read the article you will notice that Sony has a mode that allows you to write mulitple times with out closing the session. You lose 8M to "initialize" a disk and 13M to close it. Un closed disks are not readable by CD-ROM though some CD-R drives will read them. You can close the disk at any time and then re-initialize it to continue taking pictures (this cost you another 4M).
The camera can read the unclosed disk and can transfer the information contained on it to computers via a USB cable.
This also is used by the script kiddies to make it difficult for the owners of the cracked box to remove the kiddies' tools. Took me a couple hours to figure out what was happening the first time it happened to me.
Suppose OfficeCo needs a new type of interprocess communication, to better support object embedding (just as an example). How're they supposed to do this without "colluding" with OSCo? Lots of paperwork, laywers, and disclosures, that's how.
How about like the same way IBM/Lotus, Corel, Star/Sun and every other non Microsoft company on the planet; they'll have to work at it. The inside track that the apps company had is exactly the kind of thing the judges ruling is supposed to stop.
The Real fun part of this is that the Judge gave Microsoft the hard part of deciding what goes where. MS just has to follow the general OS vs Apps guideline. If Jackson doesn't like what they've done he just starts ruling arbitraily. This way MS can't say (well they can but everyone will wonder what they are smoking) that they were forced to put a specific department someplace where it doesn't belong. It was MS's choice to put it where ever they wanted.
Everyone who saw them work on Hubble knows that they could just send the shuttle up and grab onto it. They just give it a nudge towards earth with the Canada Arm instead of putting it back into orbit.
I don't see what the problem is here. I never saw anyone get so uptight over jpg.
Spoken like a young'un. Maybe you weren't around for the GIF vs. JPEG jihads^H^H^H^H^H^Hdebates. Thank god unisys whet postal regarding their patents and ended that war.
Keep in mind this is a province (like a state) not the federal goverment trying to get MS to move. Provinces have no powers over visas, immigration, or a lot of taxes.
Hello, Canada isn't some homogenous culture of lumberjacks and Inuit living in a place the size of Rhode Island. We have the approximate population of California spread over a landmass biger than the USA. Corel is based in Ottawa, Ontario. British Columbia is in, well BC. Besides which politics in BC is a form of entertainment; espcially for the economic refugees like me living in other parts of the country.
Of course in the States everyone has instant access to any procedure they need. Unless of course you are poor or have a bad HMO. Then you might not even be able to see as much as a chiropractor without paying extra.
Oh please, the US can't even manage to keep up it's UN Contributions. The USA gives money out when it furthers its world domination goals not for any altrustic reasons.
Dod you really think Win anything was thought up and pushed by engineers (software or hardware)? Winmodems are the wet dreams of the bean counters. I can see it now; some accountant, probably from MS or Intel, whose been around tech enough to be dangerous notices that the expensive chips in real modems only perform operations that cpus can -abit less efficiently- perform. So he gets management to force the techs to create the WinModem.
Good deal for everyone: Vendors get to ship cheap phone jacks instead of expensive modems; Microsoft gets to make off the OEM shelf hardware harder to use for alternative OS; Intel gets to put truth behind those silly "faster proccessor = faster internet" ads and create a market for faster proccessors.
Do you really think you'll be able to replace your '66 Mustang with anything made today?... Wait a minute I see you used PRACTICAL as your reason for change. Now it makes sense:)
I agree with your statements regarding repairability/simplicity vs. reliability/engineering complexity; however our conclusions differ. I think both newer cars and older cars are great. M66 Chrysler Windsor 2DRHT is great (wouldn't mind your car in my garage either) but it doesn't get drove much for the simple reason that the Commando 383 sucks back a lot of gas. My Indy Fiero is/will be a lot more wallet friendly. And a new PT crusier would be great.
All that being said I'd like to see them get this into consumer vehicles. The part that intrigues me the most is the ability to shut down cylinders at will when full power is not required. Like the Caddy 4-6-8 done right. Think about a monster turbo charged, port injected, 426 Hemi with computer controlled spark and valvetiming. Add the ability to run on 4 cylinders when power isn't required and you start getting into dream car areas. You could even alternate the 4 cyclinders around and use air to cool the engine incase of coolant loss. Mate the whole thing to a dynamic 4 wheel drive system like Porche's and keep the weight down below 1500 kilos and you would have a very capable sports car.
PS: Wasn't it great when engines actually had names.
Linux (or Solaris or AIX or *BSD or Tru64/OSF1 or anything else that X runs on) actually work and don't crash all the time. Most people's complaints with the fact that windows is a shell on MS-DOS were of two varieties: one, that DOS was generally a poor OS and two, that Microsoft Marketing pushed Windows as some great new computing paradigm loaded with features when knowledgeable people could see it was just a DOS Shell.
Of course my pet peeve was that you somehow needed a GUI to multitask.
I agree with you mostly (point 2 especially) but I've got to play devil's advocate on point 1.2.a NTFS FAT Once converted to NTFS, it cannot go back
This is a security feature not a bug or oversite. A weak security feature true (we are talking MS here) but this capability was intentially left out to increase security.
But don't get me started on leaving out a defragment tool until W2K.
Melvin -- Heinlien had it right. Any soceity that grows to the point of requiring IDs is a soceity to leave behind.
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Ya, and if I'm reading CNN's chart right they are still higher than they were this time last year. How insane is that. Still it'd be nice have enough microsoft stock that this would be a big difference in my bottom line.
Then it becomes confidence, and pride no longer requires running as root always, just to tweak a config file sometimes.
I have never had to spend much time explaining to any NT user why su is such a powerful tool. It is a key usability difference between windows and unix. One rarely runs as root under unix because you have the ability to su whenever you need to tweak that config file. NT requires you to logout; login as a privilaged user; preform prilaged task; then logout; login as a non-privalaged user. The whole proccess takes at least 10-15 minutes even to do something trivial like add a local printer. If your lucky you don't have to reboot (W2K much better in this regard.) So when ever possible NT users run with local administrator access all the time. Win9X has root as the only login of course.
The thing is though that some companies -TSR specificly- were cracking down on distributed group efforts that used their game system. All of the net books (like the Net Book of Sex) came under fire in a lawyer feeding frenzy not unlike what we are seeing from the MPAA and RIAA today. With a lot less publicity apparently.
TSR was the first non-porn company I personally remember going ape over "intellectual property violations"; and that was back before the September that never ended.
And TSR really shot themselves in the foot with their laywers over this and other issues. I was initially surprised when I heard the got bought out by upstart WoTC; however when I thought about it for a bit I realised I hadn't bought any of there stuff in quite a while and didn't know many people who had. The quality of their later offerings left a lot to be desired and they had sent me looking for alternatives with their draconian stance on the net. GURPS anyone?
The thing that ticked me off the most was TSR was stopping people from distributing stuff that the new corporate TSR would never touch themselves. After the Fiend Folio fiasco everyone knew they would never release "The Complete Sex Handbook" or anything similiar. And if it had been anything like the Clerics handbook no one would have bought it anyways.
So the stance by WoTC to officially acknowledge the legitatmicy of fan/other contributions seems like a good thing to me.
Of course I may be willing to cut them some slack because they make one of the IMHO best board games out there Robo Rally. And they aren't cracking down on any of the fan sites on the net. Which they could do as most(all?) of them are using scans of WoTC board elements to create the new boards.
Anyone in Calgary, AB want to get together for a game or two?
Gun control is proveably orthognal to rates of gun injuries. As you stated Japan has very strict gun laws and low gun violence. On the other hand almost every adult male in Switzerland possesses a full automatic weapon and amunition for same (provided by the state no less). Switzerland also has low gun violence.
Gun violence is more corrolated with society viewpoints than any kind of laws.
They could be buying them just to distribute stuff. That's why I buy these cheapo disks. The shelf life of the data I'm distributing is about 4 weeks. (And don't talk about ftp etc., Some of my clients are lucky to have radio phones)
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Remeber the Mavica appeals to the segment of the population who "just what to take pictures". People like my Dad who can get two christmases on the same 36 exposure roll. These people aren't whipping off 3-4 shots in a row.
And although he could handle the cable hooking up part no problem the steps to actually down load the pictures would cause endless phone calls to me for support. A CD is easy (just a shiny record) and he can handle explorer.
The camera can read the unclosed disk and can transfer the information contained on it to computers via a USB cable.
This also is used by the script kiddies to make it difficult for the owners of the cracked box to remove the kiddies' tools. Took me a couple hours to figure out what was happening the first time it happened to me.
How about like the same way IBM/Lotus, Corel, Star/Sun and every other non Microsoft company on the planet; they'll have to work at it. The inside track that the apps company had is exactly the kind of thing the judges ruling is supposed to stop.
The Real fun part of this is that the Judge gave Microsoft the hard part of deciding what goes where. MS just has to follow the general OS vs Apps guideline. If Jackson doesn't like what they've done he just starts ruling arbitraily. This way MS can't say (well they can but everyone will wonder what they are smoking) that they were forced to put a specific department someplace where it doesn't belong. It was MS's choice to put it where ever they wanted.
Everyone who saw them work on Hubble knows that they could just send the shuttle up and grab onto it. They just give it a nudge towards earth with the Canada Arm instead of putting it back into orbit.
Spoken like a young'un. Maybe you weren't around for the GIF vs. JPEG jihads^H^H^H^H^H^Hdebates. Thank god unisys whet postal regarding their patents and ended that war.
Keep in mind this is a province (like a state) not the federal goverment trying to get MS to move. Provinces have no powers over visas, immigration, or a lot of taxes.
Hello, Canada isn't some homogenous culture of lumberjacks and Inuit living in a place the size of Rhode Island. We have the approximate population of California spread over a landmass biger than the USA. Corel is based in Ottawa, Ontario. British Columbia is in, well BC. Besides which politics in BC is a form of entertainment; espcially for the economic refugees like me living in other parts of the country.
You maybe be thinking of the RISKS Digest which is the same as the newsgroup comp.risks. They have a web archive at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks
They kind of live for murphy's law.
This MS antic attempts to preserve a trade secret by getting everyone who downloads/opens the .EXE to agree to a Non-disclosure Agreement.
Not quite the same thing.
Of course in the States everyone has instant access to any procedure they need. Unless of course you are poor or have a bad HMO. Then you might not even be able to see as much as a chiropractor without paying extra.
Oh please, the US can't even manage to keep up it's UN Contributions. The USA gives money out when it furthers its world domination goals not for any altrustic reasons.
Good deal for everyone: Vendors get to ship cheap phone jacks instead of expensive modems; Microsoft gets to make off the OEM shelf hardware harder to use for alternative OS; Intel gets to put truth behind those silly "faster proccessor = faster internet" ads and create a market for faster proccessors.
There's one for the tagline file. :)
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I agree with your statements regarding repairability/simplicity vs. reliability/engineering complexity; however our conclusions differ. I think both newer cars and older cars are great. M66 Chrysler Windsor 2DRHT is great (wouldn't mind your car in my garage either) but it doesn't get drove much for the simple reason that the Commando 383 sucks back a lot of gas. My Indy Fiero is/will be a lot more wallet friendly. And a new PT crusier would be great.
All that being said I'd like to see them get this into consumer vehicles. The part that intrigues me the most is the ability to shut down cylinders at will when full power is not required. Like the Caddy 4-6-8 done right. Think about a monster turbo charged, port injected, 426 Hemi with computer controlled spark and valvetiming. Add the ability to run on 4 cylinders when power isn't required and you start getting into dream car areas. You could even alternate the 4 cyclinders around and use air to cool the engine incase of coolant loss. Mate the whole thing to a dynamic 4 wheel drive system like Porche's and keep the weight down below 1500 kilos and you would have a very capable sports car.
PS: Wasn't it great when engines actually had names.
http://www.circus.com/~nodhmo/
http://www.dhmo.org/ This one is their own domain
Melvin
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Of course my pet peeve was that you somehow needed a GUI to multitask.
This is a security feature not a bug or oversite. A weak security feature true (we are talking MS here) but this capability was intentially left out to increase security.
But don't get me started on leaving out a defragment tool until W2K.
Melvin -- Heinlien had it right. Any soceity that grows to the point of requiring IDs is a soceity to leave behind.
Ya, and if I'm reading CNN's chart right they are still higher than they were this time last year. How insane is that. Still it'd be nice have enough microsoft stock that this would be a big difference in my bottom line.
I have never had to spend much time explaining to any NT user why su is such a powerful tool. It is a key usability difference between windows and unix. One rarely runs as root under unix because you have the ability to su whenever you need to tweak that config file. NT requires you to logout; login as a privilaged user; preform prilaged task; then logout; login as a non-privalaged user. The whole proccess takes at least 10-15 minutes even to do something trivial like add a local printer. If your lucky you don't have to reboot (W2K much better in this regard.) So when ever possible NT users run with local administrator access all the time. Win9X has root as the only login of course.
TSR was the first non-porn company I personally remember going ape over "intellectual property violations"; and that was back before the September that never ended.
And TSR really shot themselves in the foot with their laywers over this and other issues. I was initially surprised when I heard the got bought out by upstart WoTC; however when I thought about it for a bit I realised I hadn't bought any of there stuff in quite a while and didn't know many people who had. The quality of their later offerings left a lot to be desired and they had sent me looking for alternatives with their draconian stance on the net. GURPS anyone?
The thing that ticked me off the most was TSR was stopping people from distributing stuff that the new corporate TSR would never touch themselves. After the Fiend Folio fiasco everyone knew they would never release "The Complete Sex Handbook" or anything similiar. And if it had been anything like the Clerics handbook no one would have bought it anyways.
So the stance by WoTC to officially acknowledge the legitatmicy of fan/other contributions seems like a good thing to me.
Of course I may be willing to cut them some slack because they make one of the IMHO best board games out there Robo Rally. And they aren't cracking down on any of the fan sites on the net. Which they could do as most(all?) of them are using scans of WoTC board elements to create the new boards.
Anyone in Calgary, AB want to get together for a game or two?
The toshiba one will help this. The article states that there method of increasing resolution results in refresh rates that are 100 faster.
Gun control is proveably orthognal to rates of gun injuries. As you stated Japan has very strict gun laws and low gun violence. On the other hand almost every adult male in Switzerland possesses a full automatic weapon and amunition for same (provided by the state no less). Switzerland also has low gun violence.
Gun violence is more corrolated with society viewpoints than any kind of laws.
They could be buying them just to distribute stuff. That's why I buy these cheapo disks. The shelf life of the data I'm distributing is about 4 weeks. (And don't talk about ftp etc., Some of my clients are lucky to have radio phones)