It amazes me how many ignorant people complain about this. The tools are there, and aren't cheap. OBD2 only covers stuff directly related to emissions control. Even then, it only covers very general information. More specific or esoteric info is proprietary. Sure, some cars are easier to tweak than others, but accessibility still remains a problem. What happens when you need to recalibrate your power seat (no joke, Volvo's been using brainy power seats that store error codes and need to be calibrated with an electronic tool since '92)? Your $100 scan tool from AutoZone won't help you there. What happens when your ABS or electronic brake control acts up? OBD2 won't help you there either.
Firebug is great except for when it's not. It breaks Google Maps and the devs aren't in any hurry to fix it, ever. It occasionally doesn't show exceptions. Sometimes the console logging functions disappear. Ever try to use real debugging functions like stepping through functions? Ugh. Having to reload the window because Firebug has lunched itself slows you down quite a bit.
Javascript may be a decent language... altho without a proper == operator how good could it really be?. Okay, no, it's not. Javascript is a shitty language with even worse implementations and horribly immature development tools. I despise having to deal with it on a daily basis.
Not only does Pelosi not represent the whole Bay Area, she doesn't even represent all of San Francisco. Where in the densest part of a rather dense city do you propose a factory be setup? If you've followed Tesla at all you'd know that they had originally planned upon building a factory in New Mexico (which is not part of Pelosi territory). Current scuttlebutt is that they're going to build a factory in San Jose, California (also not Pelosi territory).
If it's anything like the Razr2 I'm using, the voice stuff will work just fine with minimal fuss. The CDMA standards define a common way of provisioning voice service over the air. Punch up the right magic number (*228 + frequency) and you'll connect to Verizon's over the air programming and get the proper roaming list. The data stuff will need to be configured in a more phone specific manner.
And what happens when MUNI decides to not run without any warning? An hour late to work, and a bit sweaty from having to walk ~30 blocks to the subway: priceless. MUNI is only a good value (and this applies in varying degrees to every mode of public transit) if your time isn't worth anything. For me, driving outside of SF, picking up BART, and commuting in would save me over $600/mo if gas were $4/gal, and I billed my time hourly. A parking spot in the mid-market area (say 7th St) is about $125/mo, and would be faster, more reliable, and cheaper than either BART or MUNI. 'Course I pay about $650/yr in insurance, and the darn car only cost $400.
Oly may have their wide lenses covered, but the equivalent focal length in Canikon land (the 14/2.8) is faster. Making an ultrawide is indeed a hard job, and the lower the crop factor, the 'easier' the job is.
Additionally, with the increased depth of field with comes the need for faster lenses to maintain a similar (shallower) depth of field of the bigger sensor systems. And, again, with the bigger sensor you'll need more photosites to maintain similar resolution (read: moar pixels).
IMO, Oly has an uphill battle with their smaller sensor system. The Micro 4/3 system (same sensor, non SLR design) is an interesting concept for those who don't want an optical viewfinder, however. For Oly to claim that 12MP is all you'll ever need is disingenuous at best. Maybe they can compete in the MP race, but it seems more akin to their trying to confuse people over crop factors and focal length (ooh look at this awesome 180-500mm zoom lens!) than a statement of fact.
Then can. Ask professionals who shoot with Olys and other cameras on why for 99% or people (and probably 75% pros) 12MP is sufficient.
Cool. Just don't talk to the people who want super wide angle lenses (easier to do with a larger sensor). To maintain the same level of sensor density you'd need more sensors. Oly doesn't have a full frame camera, or even something APS-H sized (1.6x crop factor). Regardless of whether or not it's useful, Oly can't really squeeze much more out of a 4/3 sensor than 12mp. Even if they wanted to compete in the megapixel race, they likely couldn't.
Smallest doesn't mean "f*cking tiny". In fact, 4/3 is only ~30% smaller than APC-S.
Actually it kinda does mean fucking tiny (assuming you mean APS-C not APC-S here). Take a look at the Canon 40D (10MP, APS-C) vs 50D (15MP, APS-C). The 50D is widely regarded as generating more noisy images. If Canon is reaching the limits at 15MP on a APS-C sensor, 12MP is probably the practical limit of the 4/3 sensor format... for now.
Do some googling/whatever instead of posting such buzzword-headline-induced nonsense...
Perhaps you ought to read what I wrote instead of defending your choice of gear? Nothing you've ranted about comes close to addressing the fact that Oly simply can't compete in the megapixel race.
FWIW, I shoot a Fuji F30 (6MP) and a Nikon D200 (10MP). For available light photography, the F30 beats the pants off of the D200 and thus your E520 too. I'm quite content with not the highest resolution sensors. But for a company (or someone affiliated with them) to purport that the highest resolution you'll ever need is the top of *their* line (but not the top of others') is a bit disingenuous at best.
Lemmie guess. You're using a pocket sized camera that'll take a few seconds to focus, right? Pre-focus it, set a fixed focus point (or find a camera that does), or get an SLR. The Nikon D200 is rated for shutter lag of about 50ms and 5 pictures per second, the Canon 50D about 59ms and 6.3 pictures per second. You ought to be able to capture your subject with those specs.
It depends on what you want to do with the lens, but you don't generally need to spend $600 for a good lens (if you do stuff like bird or sports photography all bets are off). Even with crop sensors, 50mm prime lenses are still really cheap (altho I find that focal length a bit awkward).
You can buy a new auto-focus 50mm/1.8 Nikon prime for about $100, and take excellent pictures with that. You could buy a used 28mm/2.8 (the nifty one that focuses to about 7 inches) for about $200. But you lose auto focus, vignetting, distortion, and corner softness. Tough, I know.
The one thing you really gain with the Canon is that because of the distance between the lens and sensor, you can more easily adapt different lenses (such as older screw mount stuff, old Nikon kit, etc). You forgo all the electronic crap, but the results are still very usable.
Something you gain with Nikon is compatibility with older Nikon lenses. While Canon designed a new and wholly incompatible lens mount system in '87 with the advent of auto focus, Nikon did not. Pretty much any Nikon lens from 1977 on work with pretty much any Nikon camera. Older Nikon lenses require a bit of fiddling, but can usually be adapted for about $25 (not so with Canon).
Of course Olympus is saying they don't want to compete in the megapixel race. They can't. Oly is pushing the 4/3 standard which uses the smallest sensors of any common DSLR system. Nikon and Canon have rather compact full-frame cameras available, and are thus able to hype the super high pixel count sensors. Maybe Olympus can compete in other areas, but Fuji's been hard at work with the low light sensitivity (with their SuperCCD) and Sigma's been working with Foveon on high dynamic range sensors (and already have a 12MP equivalent sensor).
This strikes me as similar to AMD claiming that clock speed was a bad performance metric back when their stuff was clocked slower and couldn't quite compete with Intel.
They penalize people who buy new houses. They don't prevent raising the taxes, they merely created a whole level of bureaucracy (a la Mello-Roos districts) to deal with the fees (nee taxes).
Even better, Prop. 13 applies to commercial property as well. This means that corporations who simply shuffle officers around a bit get sweet, sweet tax breaks... and your local assessor can't do anything about it.
The example you've given is a weak example for Prop. 13, and a much better example for why the position of assessor should be an elected one.
No, they don't. One of their older A/B/G chipsets (2915) was atrocious, even under Windows. It could only do WPA/WPA2 at B speeds. You could eventually find a version of their driver that worked for G+WPA, but you'd then expose yourself to all sorts of security problems. I believe that their similar vintage B/G chipset had nearly identical problems with WPA.
So? Obama is proving himself no better than the competition. McCain winning makes less and less difference.
I'm not a big fan of having a litmus test for a politician. You're never going to find a person who will operate exactly every single voter wants. Voting for this bill is, however, a big detraction for Obama. Consider that he's running on a platform of being oh so different from the rest. Consider that one of his planks was that telecom immunity was wrong.
It's also having structured, simple unlimited data plans, which is really what makes the iPhone shine.
T-Mobile offers unlimited data plans. Next.
It's about doing things like setting your voicemail greeting all through a GUI on the phone, without having to call into some number and follow prompts. (Simple? Sure. Not a big deal? Sure. But still, one little detail among many.)
Simple? Sure. Possible on the iPhone? Nope. I followed the prompts on my iPhone, and still had to call AT&T's VM system to initialize everything. Beyond the VM, not much requires special attention from the carrier... and the VM failed at ease of setup.
It's being able to walk out of a retailer with the iPhone sealed in a box (which itself probably has more attention to design than most handsets do), and then the ability to seamlessly activate via iTunes, with a simple selection of choices, in the comfort of one's own home in a fashion fully supported by Apple and the carrier.
What's this have to do with AT&T? Apple's already supporting other carriers in other countries. Why not support other carriers in the US?
It's the user experience from end-to-end (peoples' own individual gripes with AT&T or any other carrier aside).
Really? I recently (last week) got a company paid for iPhone. I updated the firmware to the latest release. I had to reboot the phone to get it to recognize new mail settings. Seriously, it kept checking an account I had deleted. Or how about the Safari crashes fairly often.
Oh, you want AT&T complaints? The voice quality is TERRIBLE. My other phone is a Nokia 6015i on Verizon. Hands down, the beat to shit Nokia has much better voice quality. The best part? The Nokia is picking up a tower in the next county, the iPhone is picking up a signal from within the city I live in. I get more straight to VM calls, more dropouts, and far worse quality with AT&T despite the phone showing full signal strength and the Nokia showing one or two bars.
The stress is lower? Ha. Maybe I"m more resistant to bureaucracy than most slashdot types, but I can't imagine that the stress level would be lower working for the government. The expectations might be lower, but not the stress.
I interviewed at the local school district for a desktop support position. There are maybe 150 sites, and, with the two new hires, 7 people doing desktop support. The top end of the starting pay schedule was reasonable for the cost of living. In the end, I interviewed with a startup and went with that position. Why? In *THIS CASE* the school district was completely inept, and simply couldn't manage to communicate much of anything (me offer job, you take, we pay unknown amount of money, do this, no questions allowed).
However, I suspect some of the differences would be the same no matter what government entity I had interviewed with. Namely, the school job would have been classified as a "civil service" job. Out here, the civil service system was designed to carefully weed out competence. While the top end of the *starting* pay schedule ($62k/yr) was pretty close to what the startup offered, the bottom end ($45k/yr) was not. To get an offer for anything more than than $45k/yr, I was required to submit documentation that $45k/yr would be less than what I was currently making. IOW, they've eliminated one of the most reasonable motivators to move to another job (seeking a higher salary). Anyways, chances are that the pay difference isn't so significant between public and private sector IT jobs, especially if you factor in the benefits.
That said, this article was worth a laugh.
Twentysomethings are demanding the money that their parents are making? Yeah, well, their parents paid much, much less for their education. Their parents graduated from college with less debt. These twentysomethings aren't really landing entry level jobs, IMO. Take a look at some of these so-called entry level job postings. Many companies are looking for a jack of all trades, or looking for a highly polished skillset. In many (not all) instances the difference between the entry level and higher up jobs is simply that of pay, not of skill. One company I interviewed with (they are developing bluetooth equipped billboards... the horror) had outsourced all their product development, and wanted to start hiring local developers. They wanted someone who could migrate their code from PHP to Rails and someone who could be a sysadmin. Since they didn't have a lot of money, they wanted someone without a lot of experience. So, what? I should pay my dues by doing the same damn shit, but for less money? No. You wanted a university degree, you get to pay for it.
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It amazes me how many ignorant people complain about this. The tools are there, and aren't cheap. OBD2 only covers stuff directly related to emissions control. Even then, it only covers very general information. More specific or esoteric info is proprietary. Sure, some cars are easier to tweak than others, but accessibility still remains a problem. What happens when you need to recalibrate your power seat (no joke, Volvo's been using brainy power seats that store error codes and need to be calibrated with an electronic tool since '92)? Your $100 scan tool from AutoZone won't help you there. What happens when your ABS or electronic brake control acts up? OBD2 won't help you there either.
EU would indicate Esatdo Unido, no? So multiple Es and Us would indicate Estados Unidos.
Firebug is great except for when it's not. It breaks Google Maps and the devs aren't in any hurry to fix it, ever. It occasionally doesn't show exceptions. Sometimes the console logging functions disappear. Ever try to use real debugging functions like stepping through functions? Ugh. Having to reload the window because Firebug has lunched itself slows you down quite a bit.
Javascript may be a decent language... altho without a proper == operator how good could it really be?. Okay, no, it's not. Javascript is a shitty language with even worse implementations and horribly immature development tools. I despise having to deal with it on a daily basis.
Toilet paper indeed.
No, it makes you naive and/or ignorant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California's_8th_congressional_district
Not only does Pelosi not represent the whole Bay Area, she doesn't even represent all of San Francisco. Where in the densest part of a rather dense city do you propose a factory be setup? If you've followed Tesla at all you'd know that they had originally planned upon building a factory in New Mexico (which is not part of Pelosi territory). Current scuttlebutt is that they're going to build a factory in San Jose, California (also not Pelosi territory).
If it's anything like the Razr2 I'm using, the voice stuff will work just fine with minimal fuss. The CDMA standards define a common way of provisioning voice service over the air. Punch up the right magic number (*228 + frequency) and you'll connect to Verizon's over the air programming and get the proper roaming list. The data stuff will need to be configured in a more phone specific manner.
How about two examples of where mechanical controls have failed? Maybe another Boeing example?
And what happens when MUNI decides to not run without any warning? An hour late to work, and a bit sweaty from having to walk ~30 blocks to the subway: priceless. MUNI is only a good value (and this applies in varying degrees to every mode of public transit) if your time isn't worth anything. For me, driving outside of SF, picking up BART, and commuting in would save me over $600/mo if gas were $4/gal, and I billed my time hourly. A parking spot in the mid-market area (say 7th St) is about $125/mo, and would be faster, more reliable, and cheaper than either BART or MUNI. 'Course I pay about $650/yr in insurance, and the darn car only cost $400.
So host it yourself. http://www.google.com/urchin/download.html.
Oly may have their wide lenses covered, but the equivalent focal length in Canikon land (the 14/2.8) is faster. Making an ultrawide is indeed a hard job, and the lower the crop factor, the 'easier' the job is.
Additionally, with the increased depth of field with comes the need for faster lenses to maintain a similar (shallower) depth of field of the bigger sensor systems. And, again, with the bigger sensor you'll need more photosites to maintain similar resolution (read: moar pixels).
IMO, Oly has an uphill battle with their smaller sensor system. The Micro 4/3 system (same sensor, non SLR design) is an interesting concept for those who don't want an optical viewfinder, however. For Oly to claim that 12MP is all you'll ever need is disingenuous at best. Maybe they can compete in the MP race, but it seems more akin to their trying to confuse people over crop factors and focal length (ooh look at this awesome 180-500mm zoom lens!) than a statement of fact.
Then can. Ask professionals who shoot with Olys and other cameras on why for 99% or people (and probably 75% pros) 12MP is sufficient.
Cool. Just don't talk to the people who want super wide angle lenses (easier to do with a larger sensor). To maintain the same level of sensor density you'd need more sensors. Oly doesn't have a full frame camera, or even something APS-H sized (1.6x crop factor). Regardless of whether or not it's useful, Oly can't really squeeze much more out of a 4/3 sensor than 12mp. Even if they wanted to compete in the megapixel race, they likely couldn't.
Smallest doesn't mean "f*cking tiny". In fact, 4/3 is only ~30% smaller than APC-S.
Actually it kinda does mean fucking tiny (assuming you mean APS-C not APC-S here). Take a look at the Canon 40D (10MP, APS-C) vs 50D (15MP, APS-C). The 50D is widely regarded as generating more noisy images. If Canon is reaching the limits at 15MP on a APS-C sensor, 12MP is probably the practical limit of the 4/3 sensor format... for now.
Do some googling/whatever instead of posting such buzzword-headline-induced nonsense...
Perhaps you ought to read what I wrote instead of defending your choice of gear? Nothing you've ranted about comes close to addressing the fact that Oly simply can't compete in the megapixel race. FWIW, I shoot a Fuji F30 (6MP) and a Nikon D200 (10MP). For available light photography, the F30 beats the pants off of the D200 and thus your E520 too. I'm quite content with not the highest resolution sensors. But for a company (or someone affiliated with them) to purport that the highest resolution you'll ever need is the top of *their* line (but not the top of others') is a bit disingenuous at best.
Lemmie guess. You're using a pocket sized camera that'll take a few seconds to focus, right? Pre-focus it, set a fixed focus point (or find a camera that does), or get an SLR. The Nikon D200 is rated for shutter lag of about 50ms and 5 pictures per second, the Canon 50D about 59ms and 6.3 pictures per second. You ought to be able to capture your subject with those specs.
It depends on what you want to do with the lens, but you don't generally need to spend $600 for a good lens (if you do stuff like bird or sports photography all bets are off). Even with crop sensors, 50mm prime lenses are still really cheap (altho I find that focal length a bit awkward). You can buy a new auto-focus 50mm/1.8 Nikon prime for about $100, and take excellent pictures with that. You could buy a used 28mm/2.8 (the nifty one that focuses to about 7 inches) for about $200. But you lose auto focus, vignetting, distortion, and corner softness. Tough, I know.
The one thing you really gain with the Canon is that because of the distance between the lens and sensor, you can more easily adapt different lenses (such as older screw mount stuff, old Nikon kit, etc). You forgo all the electronic crap, but the results are still very usable.
Something you gain with Nikon is compatibility with older Nikon lenses. While Canon designed a new and wholly incompatible lens mount system in '87 with the advent of auto focus, Nikon did not. Pretty much any Nikon lens from 1977 on work with pretty much any Nikon camera. Older Nikon lenses require a bit of fiddling, but can usually be adapted for about $25 (not so with Canon).
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikkor-on-canon/
Of course Olympus is saying they don't want to compete in the megapixel race. They can't. Oly is pushing the 4/3 standard which uses the smallest sensors of any common DSLR system. Nikon and Canon have rather compact full-frame cameras available, and are thus able to hype the super high pixel count sensors. Maybe Olympus can compete in other areas, but Fuji's been hard at work with the low light sensitivity (with their SuperCCD) and Sigma's been working with Foveon on high dynamic range sensors (and already have a 12MP equivalent sensor).
This strikes me as similar to AMD claiming that clock speed was a bad performance metric back when their stuff was clocked slower and couldn't quite compete with Intel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Thirds_System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveon_X3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_CCD
Oh please. Props 8 & 13 didn't save homeowners. Prop 13 merely encourages aristocracy.
They penalize people who buy new houses. They don't prevent raising the taxes, they merely created a whole level of bureaucracy (a la Mello-Roos districts) to deal with the fees (nee taxes).
Even better, Prop. 13 applies to commercial property as well. This means that corporations who simply shuffle officers around a bit get sweet, sweet tax breaks... and your local assessor can't do anything about it.
The example you've given is a weak example for Prop. 13, and a much better example for why the position of assessor should be an elected one.
No, they don't. One of their older A/B/G chipsets (2915) was atrocious, even under Windows. It could only do WPA/WPA2 at B speeds. You could eventually find a version of their driver that worked for G+WPA, but you'd then expose yourself to all sorts of security problems. I believe that their similar vintage B/G chipset had nearly identical problems with WPA.
No, it's considered the middle of nowhere.
All of this and nobody's mentioned Computer Recycling Center of Alameda? www.crc.org.
So? Obama is proving himself no better than the competition. McCain winning makes less and less difference.
I'm not a big fan of having a litmus test for a politician. You're never going to find a person who will operate exactly every single voter wants. Voting for this bill is, however, a big detraction for Obama. Consider that he's running on a platform of being oh so different from the rest. Consider that one of his planks was that telecom immunity was wrong.
Oh well.
Until you run into incompatibilities between different JREs.
Huh. Nobody uses that on Mac? Guess you've never heard of Adium. Nobody on Windows? That explains why the Win32 port is actively maintained.
The insane part is that you're watching fox "news".
T-Mobile offers unlimited data plans. Next.
Simple? Sure. Possible on the iPhone? Nope. I followed the prompts on my iPhone, and still had to call AT&T's VM system to initialize everything. Beyond the VM, not much requires special attention from the carrier... and the VM failed at ease of setup.
What's this have to do with AT&T? Apple's already supporting other carriers in other countries. Why not support other carriers in the US?
Really? I recently (last week) got a company paid for iPhone. I updated the firmware to the latest release. I had to reboot the phone to get it to recognize new mail settings. Seriously, it kept checking an account I had deleted. Or how about the Safari crashes fairly often.
Oh, you want AT&T complaints? The voice quality is TERRIBLE. My other phone is a Nokia 6015i on Verizon. Hands down, the beat to shit Nokia has much better voice quality. The best part? The Nokia is picking up a tower in the next county, the iPhone is picking up a signal from within the city I live in. I get more straight to VM calls, more dropouts, and far worse quality with AT&T despite the phone showing full signal strength and the Nokia showing one or two bars.
The stress is lower? Ha. Maybe I"m more resistant to bureaucracy than most slashdot types, but I can't imagine that the stress level would be lower working for the government. The expectations might be lower, but not the stress.
I interviewed at the local school district for a desktop support position. There are maybe 150 sites, and, with the two new hires, 7 people doing desktop support. The top end of the starting pay schedule was reasonable for the cost of living. In the end, I interviewed with a startup and went with that position. Why? In *THIS CASE* the school district was completely inept, and simply couldn't manage to communicate much of anything (me offer job, you take, we pay unknown amount of money, do this, no questions allowed).
However, I suspect some of the differences would be the same no matter what government entity I had interviewed with. Namely, the school job would have been classified as a "civil service" job. Out here, the civil service system was designed to carefully weed out competence. While the top end of the *starting* pay schedule ($62k/yr) was pretty close to what the startup offered, the bottom end ($45k/yr) was not. To get an offer for anything more than than $45k/yr, I was required to submit documentation that $45k/yr would be less than what I was currently making. IOW, they've eliminated one of the most reasonable motivators to move to another job (seeking a higher salary). Anyways, chances are that the pay difference isn't so significant between public and private sector IT jobs, especially if you factor in the benefits.
That said, this article was worth a laugh.
Twentysomethings are demanding the money that their parents are making? Yeah, well, their parents paid much, much less for their education. Their parents graduated from college with less debt. These twentysomethings aren't really landing entry level jobs, IMO. Take a look at some of these so-called entry level job postings. Many companies are looking for a jack of all trades, or looking for a highly polished skillset. In many (not all) instances the difference between the entry level and higher up jobs is simply that of pay, not of skill. One company I interviewed with (they are developing bluetooth equipped billboards... the horror) had outsourced all their product development, and wanted to start hiring local developers. They wanted someone who could migrate their code from PHP to Rails and someone who could be a sysadmin. Since they didn't have a lot of money, they wanted someone without a lot of experience. So, what? I should pay my dues by doing the same damn shit, but for less money? No. You wanted a university degree, you get to pay for it.
Yeah, I love when UPS drivers try and get creative with directions. I end up getting my packages around 7-8:30pm.