This brings back lots of good memories (and not so good ones: Jon Katz!) I hardly ever post here and these days just look at the RSS feed unless something interesting catches my eye. For this though I had to get out of lurker mode.
prevents third parties from exposing information
knowingly obtained from sources bound by confidentiality
agreements.
The keywords here are "knowingly obtained". Did Thinksecret know that the information they were getting was from a
person that had signed a confidentiality agreement? That
seems to be a requirement of the law.
That is true. However, Apple does have the right to know whether Thinksecret knowingly obtained the information from someone under NDA. I see no ground for Thinksecret to stay silent on that.
Are you sure it is a case of remembering the other native language? In India, official documents like passport are written in two languages, Hindi and English. A non-Hindi speaker (like me) may only understand the English version. I understand spoken Hindi but can barely speak it and can not read it at all.
Going back to the languages spoken in India, according to the 2001 census, the number of speakers of Hindi is about 414 million and the number of Bengali speakers in India is about 85 million. Given that Bangladesh had about 211 million people in 2002 and almost all of them sopke Bengali, there are at least 296 million people whose first language is Bengali.
There are two digital SLR cameras in market right now with full 35mm sensors - the Canon EOS-D1s and the Kodak DCS SLR/n. The Canon is an 11 MP camera and costs about $8000.00. The Kodak is a 14MP camera costing about $5000.00. The Canon produces the best quality pictures among digital SLRs. The Kodak is rather new. It is actually an update of an older camera using the same sensor called DCS 14n. This older model has been described as rather noisy (in comparison to the Canon at least) in all but the lowest ISO setting. It also produced bad colors in certain situations. The new model supposed to be better - but not in the same class as the Canon. The Kodak uses Nikon lenses and is based on a Nikon camera body. Kodak has also announced another body with the same sensors that take Canon lenses.
So at least two full 35mm frame digital SLRs exist. None of them are cheap - and it it will quite possibly stay that way for some time.
Leica has announced a digital back for their R series SLR cameras. This being Leica, it will possibly be rather expensive - not to mention the huge price tags for their lenses and film bodies. There has been some persistent rumors that Nikon is designing their next professional flagship SLR camera body (the successor to the film SLR model F5) as a camera that can take interchangable digital (and film) backs. Nikon flagship models are usually replaced every 8 years. If the pattern holds then they should come up with a new model (the F6) this year.
I am not aware of any Nikon FX. If you are talking about either Nikon FM or FG, then it is likely that the lenses are manual focus. You can use them with either Nikon D1X, D1H or D2H digital SLRs. They all cost big bucks though.
For the first time Sony is adding support for compact flash cards. A lot of people (including me) did not consider Sony as a possible purchase because no other digital camera manufacturer uses memory sticks.
The DSC F828 has support for 640x480 movies at 30 fps and the size of the movie is only limited by the available memory in your card. For the first time, you have a product that is good as both a digital still and a movie camera.
The problem is, apart from Sigma, no one else is making a camera with the Foveon CMOS (not CCD) chips.
At one point Foveon said they have one more interested manufacturer but they have gone back on that statement.
The only product with the Foveon chip is the Sigma SD9. Although it is an interesting product from some points of view, it does have some limitations. From a
review of SD9:
That's not to say this "first of a kind" isn't without its problems. Sensitivity is limited and image sharpness and color response seem to drop off at higher ISO's. More serious is the tendency to clip color in a highlight, something I've described as "color clipping" and "gray halos". At this stage it's unclear if this is a sensor issue, a Photo Pro processing issue or a combination of the two. We're hoping
Sigma/Foveon will be able to issue some kind of fix on this issue. For the time being shooting carefully so as to avoid overexposure is the key.
A very good precedent for treating the internet is maritime law. The problem is somewhat similar. When you are in international water it is not exactly clear what law should apply to you. A large body of law exist that govern precisely those situations. A similar approach to internet might be the best.
Senate in Rome used to have a similar system. Each senator could vote for as many candidates/alternatives as they wanted. So a in this election someone who wanted to vote liberal could vote for both Gore and Nader without fear that his vote would be wasted.
There is a slightly different perspective that I would like to point out. This would allow more Statistics departments to switch over to Linux. The major (and superior) development environment for Statisticians is S. A Linux port for S already exist. More importantly there is R, a free implementation of S which is equally good if not better than the commercial version. So, now you have essentially everything you need as a statistician on Linux.
Just to correct a few details - Ramanujan was not an "untouchable". He was a bramhin - that is from the highest cast. He was also in reasonable good health while in India. But he was poor and he was uneducated. He became ill after going to Cambridge due to his strict vegeterian diet and the cold weather.
The British mathematician was G.H. Hardy. For more about Ramanujan and a non-technical description of his work on partitions check out Robert Kanigel's book The Man Who Knew Infinity. A more technical introduction is Hardy's Twelve Lectures on Ramanujan or The Collected Works of Ramanujan.
if ( !(strcmp(temp_string,"TransmetaNow"))) { sprintf(vendor,"%s","Transmeta ");/* Hehe this is a joke. No I have no clue what *\ \* Transmeta does.;) */ }
As one example, we are using a number of x86 running solaris for undergraduate students here in the stat dept. of university of wisconsin. One reason for that is, the main software used by these students (minitab) is not available for linux. It is available for Windows but we want to avoid that.
Even then, we possibly are going to install linux in these machines finally. Minitab will be a problem but we may get it installed in public computer labs running NT - after all, we TA's have a hard time getting the students to use unix.
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This brings back lots of good memories (and not so good ones: Jon Katz!) I hardly ever post here and these days just look at the RSS feed unless something interesting catches my eye. For this though I had to get out of lurker mode.
Take care Rob and good luck with everything.
That is true. However, Apple does have the right to know whether Thinksecret knowingly obtained the information from someone under NDA. I see no ground for Thinksecret to stay silent on that.
Going back to the languages spoken in India, according to the 2001 census, the number of speakers of Hindi is about 414 million and the number of Bengali speakers in India is about 85 million. Given that Bangladesh had about 211 million people in 2002 and almost all of them sopke Bengali, there are at least 296 million people whose first language is Bengali.
So at least two full 35mm frame digital SLRs exist. None of them are cheap - and it it will quite possibly stay that way for some time.
Leica has announced a digital back for their R series SLR cameras. This being Leica, it will possibly be rather expensive - not to mention the huge price tags for their lenses and film bodies. There has been some persistent rumors that Nikon is designing their next professional flagship SLR camera body (the successor to the film SLR model F5) as a camera that can take interchangable digital (and film) backs. Nikon flagship models are usually replaced every 8 years. If the pattern holds then they should come up with a new model (the F6) this year.
I am not aware of any Nikon FX. If you are talking about either Nikon FM or FG, then it is likely that the lenses are manual focus. You can use them with either Nikon D1X, D1H or D2H digital SLRs. They all cost big bucks though.
For the first time Sony is adding support for compact flash cards. A lot of people (including me) did not consider Sony as a possible purchase because no other digital camera manufacturer uses memory sticks.
The DSC F828 has support for 640x480 movies at 30 fps and the size of the movie is only limited by the available memory in your card. For the first time, you have a product that is good as both a digital still and a movie camera.
The only product with the Foveon chip is the Sigma SD9. Although it is an interesting product from some points of view, it does have some limitations. From a review of SD9:
of this article.
For data visualization you may also want to take a look at R. It has much better support for plotting than Octave.
A very good precedent for treating the internet is maritime law. The problem is somewhat similar. When you are in international water it is not exactly clear what law should apply to you. A large body of law exist that govern precisely those situations. A similar approach to internet might be the best.
Senate in Rome used to have a similar system. Each senator could vote for as many candidates/alternatives as they wanted. So a in this election someone who wanted to vote liberal could vote for both Gore and Nader without fear that his vote would be wasted.
What about Algol 60? I think reading it was also designed by a committee. It came out (as the name suggests) sometime in 1960 or 1961.
There is a slightly different perspective that I would like to point out. This would allow more Statistics departments to switch over to Linux. The major (and superior) development environment for Statisticians is S. A Linux port for S already exist. More importantly there is R, a free implementation of S which is equally good if not better than the commercial version. So, now you have essentially everything you need as a statistician on Linux.
Just to correct a few details - Ramanujan was not an "untouchable". He was a bramhin - that is from the highest cast. He was also in reasonable good health while in India. But he was poor and he was uneducated. He became ill after going to Cambridge due to his strict vegeterian diet and the cold weather.
The British mathematician was G.H. Hardy. For more about Ramanujan and a non-technical description of his work on partitions check out Robert Kanigel's book The Man Who Knew Infinity. A more technical introduction is Hardy's Twelve Lectures on Ramanujan or The Collected Works of Ramanujan.
> (setq menu-program-stays-running) in~/.sawmillrc
That should be(setq menu-program-stays-running t)
if ( !(strcmp(temp_string,"TransmetaNow"))) { sprintf(vendor,"%s","Transmeta "); /* Hehe this is a joke. No I have no clue what *\ \* Transmeta does. ;) */ }
Even then, we possibly are going to install linux in these machines finally. Minitab will be a problem but we may get it installed in public computer labs running NT - after all, we TA's have a hard time getting the students to use unix.