When can I get a GSM phone that'll work over here? I'm sick of paying for the devleopment of a new, proprietary, single-carrier network each year. Time to join the 20th century and go GSM.
Wait, I don't even use a cell phone. My time is too valuable to me.
You're fucking KIDDING me. The same SEC that basically validates the kind of scams that go on all the time? In a recent arbitration against a major company that defrauded it's investors, 2 of the 3 arbitrators sitting on the panel were at that time also employed as consultants for the same company being charged with funds mismanagement! The SEC is a fucking joke when it comes to protecting the investor. They are there to protect the investment corporations. Since the 70's you haven't been able to sue your broker for mismanagement, you have to go to a SEC arbitration. One which was probably rigged from the start.
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That's more of a festival than camping. At least in my book.
The biggest power tools in my pack are my Dragonfly stove, my Katadyn filter, and my.357 magnum.
Are you NUTS? You couldn't make a move in Nethack more than every 30 seconds without a full keyboard. Just think of what a bitch it would be to engrave Elbereth and then write a scroll of teleportation with a stylus!
When it comes down to it, a worm such as a this (trojan horse) requires a stupid user to execute it - so blame the user for once.
Wrong. I would say naive, but never stupid. There are probably people who are far smarter than you or I by any standard metric who have become infected. This doesn't alter the fact that the user is to blame. However, most users don't realize that they need to be the ones in charge of their own security. I have no pity for these folks, as a good virus or worm taking out all their data will tell them that which they ignore when they read or listen.
It's like little kids and the stove. Sometimes you need to let 'em burn themselves a few times to learn that the hot thing is painful.
Did your movie reviewer friend let you in on the secret pact they have with the studios? They trade favor and goods for decent reviews. I haven't seen a bad movie truely get slammed in the mainstream press for years now.
I, too, have given up on Hollywood. The fact is, however, that for every person like you or me, who have become disgusted with the sheer shittiness of movies, and the fact that supporting the industry just encourages them to turn around and bribe our politicians into attempting to, or successfully passing blatantly unconstitutional laws, there are a hundred people who just HAVE to see Ben and J-lo kiss on screen.
The more you think about it, the more Nietzsche was right. People are mostly sheep.
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I'm sorry, but a generator is the last thing you take camping. RVing, maybe.
Exactly. MS is having enough trouble selling their Xbox right now. People who are clued in realize that any game that comes out for Xbox will eventually come out for their much nicer PC's. With the price of PCs still dropping, many folk are willing to spend the extra hundred or so to get a basic PC that runs 90% of Xbox games, and can be used for all other computing tasks that the Xbox disallows you from taking advantage of.
Soon, I envision most entry-level PCs coming with a video out as well as VGA for their onboard video. Kind of like with early 80's computers. When this happens, the Xbox will be double-fucked.
Wow, you sure are informed. Except about nuclear suitcase bombs, which do exist. They were deployed from the 60's to the late 80's in the US army.
The Medium Atomic Demolition Munition is a small, portable nuke. Even better, the W54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition is much smaller and lighter, and is easily classified as a suitcase nuclear weapon.
Hardly apocryphal, these units were deployed by the Army from the 60's until 1988.
Canon 10D + Lens costs around $2500... $3000. Sony F828 will be around $1200. So of course Sony F828 there will be overall somewhat inferior, BUT the difference is very small. Also, they are in two different cattegories, Sony F828 is a digicam and Canon 10D a Digital-SLR (dSLR).
The 10D is $1499. Lenses go from $69 (for the EXCELLENT 50mm f/1.8) all the way up to $75,000 (1200mm f/5.6L). So, the 10D + lenses is an investment you can grow. Also, when the 10D becomes obsolete, you can still use all your new lenses on its successor.
In many areas F828 will be better than Canon 10D and in some areas Canon 10D will be better.
I can't, offhand, think of many ways that the 828 will be better. Slightly more color data, and slightly more pixels, and no 'movie mode' (which is only available if you choose to get assraped for a memorystick pro). As far as things that make the 10D better : Lenses, flash system, AF speed (USM), image stabilization, less battery drain, wider ISO range, less noisy sensor (CCD's are far noisier than CMOS sensors), verical grip, 3FPS, DOF preview, control of flash sync, button programmability, optical viewfinder, high-durability focal plane shitter, remote operation from computer, cable release, on and on and on. The 828 isn't even in the same league.
The focus time is 0.19s on Canon 10D and probably about 0.39s (tested on a preproduction camera) for the Sony. Anyway, this Sony (F828) is the fastest Digital Camera ever made and ranges as faster than some dSLR cameras and slower than other.
Maybe for a fixed target from a fixed distance. In the field the 10D will smoke the Sony (especially with an ultrasonic lens). Make no mistake, the 10D is a digital camera also. Putting consumer digicams in their own special category is the ONLY way one can say the Sony is the 'best' at anything. Digital SLR-body cameras AF speed is largely dependant on lenses chosen.
The Canon 10D noise and the low light capabilities will be better than the F828's because the sensor is much larger.
No, the reason the noise and low-light capabilities are better is largely because of the sensors used. The canon DSLR's (except the 1D) use a CMOS sensor, which isn't nearly as noisy as a CCD or Foveon sensor.
Canon 10D has only an OPTICAL viewfinder and you cannot frame the subject with the LCD. Sony can.
Sony 828 has only a DIGITAL viewfinder and you cannot accurately manually focus or frame the subject, or see through the lens if there is vibration (from the wind etc) or if the focus is absolutely critical. Canon can.
This Sony unlike its predecessors is compatible with Compact Flash and IBM Microdrive.
But, if you want 'movie mode' you need to take it in the ass and buy a MemoryStick Pro.
The Sony F828 lens has 0.8x wide angle (28mm) and 7x zoom. This would cost you a ton of $$$ on Canon 10D because you would need two expensive lenses, one for tele and one for wide and also you'd need to carry a bag for them. Canon has a sensor dust problem because the lens is removable and when you take it off dust deposits on the sensor. Sony does not need to remove the lens. The Sony lens was especially designed for it (as a digital camera) while the Canon lenses are generic (not especially desiged for digital use). You pay more for the Canon glass because it is designed for 35mm film not for the digital sensor which is 1.6x smaller than film. Your Zeiss glass on the 828 will go into the garbage with the rest of the unit when the Cybershot 939 (or whatever) comes out.
Yes, it would cost a bit to get the EXACT same range on the Canon. However, you could pick up lenses gradually, or use used ones, or use the ones you already own. There isn't anything special about a lens for digital vs. a film one, besides maybe the word DIGITAL on the lens barrel. Light is passed through each one in the exact same manner. You do have a point about the dust, though. The
But, on the other hand, how much would you have to pay to make your new Sony Cybershot go out to 1200mm? I bet it would make the 75,000 $$$ Canon EF 1200 f/5.6 L look cheap.
How about tilt-shift? Again, without a team of Sony engineers from Japan and about 1 million bucks, it ain't happening. What if you just want DOF preview? Nope? Oh.
Nyah-nyah, it looks like this is just a slightly upgraded Cybershot. It isn't even playing the same game as a real camera.
They already killed OS 9. Steve put it in a coffin and they had a little ceremony and everything. It's dead. It was in its death throes for a couple of years before this, so no biggie.
The funny thing is that people still cling to it! I don't know how or why. Other than a very few products that are obscure (capybara anyone?) no vendor still develops for it - INCLUDING Apple.
You HAVE to be joking. Laptops are hardly commodity hardware. Can you go to Fry's and buy a new motherboard for your 5 year old Dell? How about a new monitor? No? Well, then the power supply must be a standard unit. No? How about the (insert other computer part names here)? No?
Commodity indeed. About as commodity as a Faberge egg.
Linus is pronunced LIE-nuhs. Linux is pronounced LIE-nucks.
Why the FUCK would you pronounce Linux as LINN-icks? Is it spelled Linix? NO! That's just wrong. Just because 80% or so of the tards say it that way doesn't make it right. If you were Finnish it would be LEAN-ucks (Linus' pronunciation).
Microsoft Windows Media, for one, is the most advanced streaming video codec available.
Bullshit. In terms of quality it is about equal to the current QT codec. The problem with the WMP codec is that one must use the retarded peice of shit Windows Media Player to view anything encoded with said codec.
Yes, I have run processes in jail. This has nothing whatsoever to do with a process competing for processor time. Zombies never do, nor do they hold any resources whatsoever, thus they CANNOT run.
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When can I get a GSM phone that'll work over here? I'm sick of paying for the devleopment of a new, proprietary, single-carrier network each year. Time to join the 20th century and go GSM.
Wait, I don't even use a cell phone. My time is too valuable to me.
The standards are as follows: PDF for distribution, .txt for work in progress. .DOC is for secretaries that need to look busy trying new fonts.
You're fucking KIDDING me. The same SEC that basically validates the kind of scams that go on all the time? In a recent arbitration against a major company that defrauded it's investors, 2 of the 3 arbitrators sitting on the panel were at that time also employed as consultants for the same company being charged with funds mismanagement! The SEC is a fucking joke when it comes to protecting the investor. They are there to protect the investment corporations. Since the 70's you haven't been able to sue your broker for mismanagement, you have to go to a SEC arbitration. One which was probably rigged from the start.
That's more of a festival than camping. At least in my book.
.357 magnum.
The biggest power tools in my pack are my Dragonfly stove, my Katadyn filter, and my
Are you NUTS? You couldn't make a move in Nethack more than every 30 seconds without a full keyboard. Just think of what a bitch it would be to engrave Elbereth and then write a scroll of teleportation with a stylus!
When it comes down to it, a worm such as a this (trojan horse) requires a stupid user to execute it - so blame the user for once.
Wrong. I would say naive, but never stupid. There are probably people who are far smarter than you or I by any standard metric who have become infected. This doesn't alter the fact that the user is to blame. However, most users don't realize that they need to be the ones in charge of their own security. I have no pity for these folks, as a good virus or worm taking out all their data will tell them that which they ignore when they read or listen.
It's like little kids and the stove. Sometimes you need to let 'em burn themselves a few times to learn that the hot thing is painful.
Did your movie reviewer friend let you in on the secret pact they have with the studios? They trade favor and goods for decent reviews. I haven't seen a bad movie truely get slammed in the mainstream press for years now.
I, too, have given up on Hollywood. The fact is, however, that for every person like you or me, who have become disgusted with the sheer shittiness of movies, and the fact that supporting the industry just encourages them to turn around and bribe our politicians into attempting to, or successfully passing blatantly unconstitutional laws, there are a hundred people who just HAVE to see Ben and J-lo kiss on screen.
The more you think about it, the more Nietzsche was right. People are mostly sheep.
I'm sorry, but a generator is the last thing you take camping. RVing, maybe.
Exactly. MS is having enough trouble selling their Xbox right now. People who are clued in realize that any game that comes out for Xbox will eventually come out for their much nicer PC's. With the price of PCs still dropping, many folk are willing to spend the extra hundred or so to get a basic PC that runs 90% of Xbox games, and can be used for all other computing tasks that the Xbox disallows you from taking advantage of.
Soon, I envision most entry-level PCs coming with a video out as well as VGA for their onboard video. Kind of like with early 80's computers. When this happens, the Xbox will be double-fucked.
SODIMMS and PCMCIA cards are indeed commodity. So much so, that most work in my Powerbook.
As for processors, there are a very few laptops that are upgradeable in this fashion. Doubly so for video cards.
Wow, you sure are informed. Except about nuclear suitcase bombs, which do exist. They were deployed from the 60's to the late 80's in the US army.
The Medium Atomic Demolition Munition is a small, portable nuke. Even better, the W54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition is much smaller and lighter, and is easily classified as a suitcase nuclear weapon.
Hardly apocryphal, these units were deployed by the Army from the 60's until 1988.
Canon 10D + Lens costs around $2500 ... $3000. Sony F828 will be around $1200. So of course Sony F828 there will be overall somewhat inferior, BUT the difference is very small. Also, they are in two different cattegories, Sony F828 is a digicam and Canon 10D a Digital-SLR (dSLR).
The 10D is $1499. Lenses go from $69 (for the EXCELLENT 50mm f/1.8) all the way up to $75,000 (1200mm f/5.6L). So, the 10D + lenses is an investment you can grow. Also, when the 10D becomes obsolete, you can still use all your new lenses on its successor.
In many areas F828 will be better than Canon 10D and in some areas Canon 10D will be better.
I can't, offhand, think of many ways that the 828 will be better. Slightly more color data, and slightly more pixels, and no 'movie mode' (which is only available if you choose to get assraped for a memorystick pro). As far as things that make the 10D better : Lenses, flash system, AF speed (USM), image stabilization, less battery drain, wider ISO range, less noisy sensor (CCD's are far noisier than CMOS sensors), verical grip, 3FPS, DOF preview, control of flash sync, button programmability, optical viewfinder, high-durability focal plane shitter, remote operation from computer, cable release, on and on and on. The 828 isn't even in the same league.
The focus time is 0.19s on Canon 10D and probably about 0.39s (tested on a preproduction camera) for the Sony. Anyway, this Sony (F828) is the fastest Digital Camera ever made and ranges as faster than some dSLR cameras and slower than other.
Maybe for a fixed target from a fixed distance. In the field the 10D will smoke the Sony (especially with an ultrasonic lens). Make no mistake, the 10D is a digital camera also. Putting consumer digicams in their own special category is the ONLY way one can say the Sony is the 'best' at anything. Digital SLR-body cameras AF speed is largely dependant on lenses chosen.
The Canon 10D noise and the low light capabilities will be better than the F828's because the sensor is much larger.
No, the reason the noise and low-light capabilities are better is largely because of the sensors used. The canon DSLR's (except the 1D) use a CMOS sensor, which isn't nearly as noisy as a CCD or Foveon sensor.
Canon 10D has only an OPTICAL viewfinder and you cannot frame the subject with the LCD. Sony can.
Sony 828 has only a DIGITAL viewfinder and you cannot accurately manually focus or frame the subject, or see through the lens if there is vibration (from the wind etc) or if the focus is absolutely critical. Canon can.
This Sony unlike its predecessors is compatible with Compact Flash and IBM Microdrive.
But, if you want 'movie mode' you need to take it in the ass and buy a MemoryStick Pro.
The Sony F828 lens has 0.8x wide angle (28mm) and 7x zoom. This would cost you a ton of $$$ on Canon 10D because you would need two expensive lenses, one for tele and one for wide and also you'd need to carry a bag for them. Canon has a sensor dust problem because the lens is removable and when you take it off dust deposits on the sensor. Sony does not need to remove the lens. The Sony lens was especially designed for it (as a digital camera) while the Canon lenses are generic (not especially desiged for digital use). You pay more for the Canon glass because it is designed for 35mm film not for the digital sensor which is 1.6x smaller than film. Your Zeiss glass on the 828 will go into the garbage with the rest of the unit when the Cybershot 939 (or whatever) comes out.
Yes, it would cost a bit to get the EXACT same range on the Canon. However, you could pick up lenses gradually, or use used ones, or use the ones you already own. There isn't anything special about a lens for digital vs. a film one, besides maybe the word DIGITAL on the lens barrel. Light is passed through each one in the exact same manner. You do have a point about the dust, though. The
But, on the other hand, how much would you have to pay to make your new Sony Cybershot go out to 1200mm? I bet it would make the 75,000 $$$ Canon EF 1200 f/5.6 L look cheap.
How about tilt-shift? Again, without a team of Sony engineers from Japan and about 1 million bucks, it ain't happening. What if you just want DOF preview? Nope? Oh.
Nyah-nyah, it looks like this is just a slightly upgraded Cybershot. It isn't even playing the same game as a real camera.
NEXT!
I would love to see you try to take a 1 hour exposure with a Foveon. Or even a 3 minute exposure.
Yes, it's neat-o. It's also damn noisy.
No, he says LEAN-uchs. Not LIN-icks. It's obvious that you don't really even believe yourself, posting as an AC.
No, he says LEAN-uchs.
Subject line says it all...
They already killed OS 9. Steve put it in a coffin and they had a little ceremony and everything. It's dead. It was in its death throes for a couple of years before this, so no biggie.
The funny thing is that people still cling to it! I don't know how or why. Other than a very few products that are obscure (capybara anyone?) no vendor still develops for it - INCLUDING Apple.
Not the least of which is commodity hardware
You HAVE to be joking. Laptops are hardly commodity hardware. Can you go to Fry's and buy a new motherboard for your 5 year old Dell? How about a new monitor? No? Well, then the power supply must be a standard unit. No? How about the (insert other computer part names here)? No?
Commodity indeed. About as commodity as a Faberge egg.
the fact you got modded insightful speaks volumes about the karma system these days
No, it just means that not enough people metamoderate honestly. Or, they're retarded.
What is your boss going to think of you bring up something called "Xouvert?"
Who cares? Maybe these guys already know that your boss is afraid XFree86 in the first place. He probably thinks it's a 17 year old program!
Linus is pronunced LIE-nuhs. Linux is pronounced LIE-nucks.
Why the FUCK would you pronounce Linux as LINN-icks? Is it spelled Linix? NO! That's just wrong. Just because 80% or so of the tards say it that way doesn't make it right. If you were Finnish it would be LEAN-ucks (Linus' pronunciation).
Microsoft Windows Media, for one, is the most advanced streaming video codec available.
Bullshit. In terms of quality it is about equal to the current QT codec. The problem with the WMP codec is that one must use the retarded peice of shit Windows Media Player to view anything encoded with said codec.
Yes, I have run processes in jail. This has nothing whatsoever to do with a process competing for processor time. Zombies never do, nor do they hold any resources whatsoever, thus they CANNOT run.
Look elsewhere for your process-eater.