Put it on iPods and it becomes ubiquitous almost immediately.
The first iPods had Firewire connectivity. It wasn't until the Windows compatible version was released that the iPod picked up USB.
It's not a slam-dunk. Many people want something that "just works". If their PC's don't already have this sort of connection, it might result in a lot of lost sales & returns of iPods that are not compatible without grandma paying someone to install a PCI card for her. Or in the case of netbooks & existing laptops, you're probably screwed.
We all know that Linux is great on hackers' workstations and on servers and in computing clusters, but not so great as a desktop system for average users.
Bollocks.
All of the tools for a typical office worker are already there. Immense scale Linux desktop deployments can be very easy. An apache cluster serving up the OS install media, clients boot up via PXE & start installing via initial image grabbed over tftp. Many thousands of desktops can be installed in a matter of hours. Basically how fast can your PFY's run around turning machines on? The rest is automated (kickstart!)
Authentication & authorization on UNIX-y platforms are mature technologies.
Automated management is available through a number of tools like cfengine, puppet, and others.
I have deployed 10,000+ seat Windows environments and somewhat smaller Linux environments. Deploying Linux was so much easier! And so was managing it after deployment! At a previous job I was managing about 3,000 Linux hosts as the only Linux sysadmin, and had so much free time that I was spending almost half of my day helping the Windows team manage a much smaller number of systems.
This is your daughter's education that you're messing with, not another opportunity to evangelize Linux or force it into a place where it's not yet welcome.
Just get her a Macbook, top off her debit card from time to time, and STFU so she can be a successful student.
I had a Pro account with Flickr but I had some other issues with Flickr that caused me to allow it to lapse. In the meantime I've been checking out other sites, and the one that seems most Flickr-like without the culture of censorship running it behind the scenes is iPernity.
If you're in the US, due to currency exchange rates their equivalent of a Pro account costs a bit more but it's still pretty reasonable.
Ethernet is not always best. Ring topologies have inherent advantages in environments like this that should not be overlooked. Ethernet caught on in large part because of vendors catering to a dumbed-down market.
It has ELECTROLYTES and makes you FLY REALLY FAST! You'll also WIN at things you're not even supposed to WIN at like BUZZING! BRAWNDO will make you WIN AT BUZZING!
I went to Disneyworld in 1984 with my parents, where I got a Pirates of the Carribean toy pistol. I had it in my carry-on bag and was stopped at the gate. The toy had to be surrendered before I could board the plane.
The TSA sucks and should be eliminated, but please, let's not pretend that this is unusual or new.
I don't own a Blu Ray player. I briefly owned an HDTV but went back to the old analog TV. Sorry, but I'm opting out. The digital entertainment revolution today isn't selling anything that I'm buying. If that means I miss out on things, so be it.
When it was easy to back up a DVD, I legitimately purchased over 600 movies. As the copy protections became increasingly difficult to work around, I simply stopped buying. Hollywood stopped getting my money. I took all that money that I was spending on DVD's and bought a motorcycle instead. Now instead of sitting on the couch wasting 90-120 minutes of my life at a time, I'm spending that time enjoying getting around (rain or shine) like never before.
It's been a year since I ditched the HDTV and maybe 2 years since I stopped buying DVD's. I don't miss it.
Don't like the terms they are giving you? OPT OUT!
You must be the same people who defend Obama over everything stupid he's done because the fantasy of him is the focal point for you
No, I was the guy at the Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party protest calling for secession and getting armed. Not sure how you could confuse me with a progressive statist.
Before the market realizes the dilution of the dollar's value from Mr. Obama's previous "visions" (we call them "hallucinations" here), he's going to keep printing and spending Federal Reserve Notes with wild abandon on things we don't even need.
Millions of people will have money taken from them to fund a train that will be used by thousands. If this concept made sense, the private sector would have done it already. It doesn't make sense.
The upshot of all of this is that we may finally get the revolution we've been waiting for. The tree of liberty is parched!
400MP is more than a bit of an exaggeration of reality. I'm a big proponent of medium format films myself but I'm hard pressed to come up with a 120 film that can be expected to resolve at better than 200MP in a 6x6cm square. Just because the drum scanner will scan it at 400MP doesn't mean you're resolving any more detail from the emulsion than you would have at 399MP (let alone 200MP or in most cases 120MP).
With that said, I can take a grainy consumer grade fast film like Ilford HP5+ (ISO 400) and starting from a small web-sized image I can scale up to resolve some pretty incredible distant details. That's consumer film on a consumer flat bed scanner with little in the way of preparation for scanning.
Given a stable shooting platform, like a lunar lander, and a nice slow fine-grained film, such negatives run through modern professional lab grade drum scanners would be of a much higher resolution than you're going to get out of, say, a modern Canon EOS 5D Mk II.
NASA made extensive use of medium format cameras back then. It's very likely the film from back then carried a higher resolution image than a professional DSLR made today.
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The first iPods had Firewire connectivity. It wasn't until the Windows compatible version was released that the iPod picked up USB. It's not a slam-dunk. Many people want something that "just works". If their PC's don't already have this sort of connection, it might result in a lot of lost sales & returns of iPods that are not compatible without grandma paying someone to install a PCI card for her. Or in the case of netbooks & existing laptops, you're probably screwed.
Bollocks.
All of the tools for a typical office worker are already there. Immense scale Linux desktop deployments can be very easy. An apache cluster serving up the OS install media, clients boot up via PXE & start installing via initial image grabbed over tftp. Many thousands of desktops can be installed in a matter of hours. Basically how fast can your PFY's run around turning machines on? The rest is automated (kickstart!)
Authentication & authorization on UNIX-y platforms are mature technologies.
Automated management is available through a number of tools like cfengine, puppet, and others.
I have deployed 10,000+ seat Windows environments and somewhat smaller Linux environments. Deploying Linux was so much easier! And so was managing it after deployment! At a previous job I was managing about 3,000 Linux hosts as the only Linux sysadmin, and had so much free time that I was spending almost half of my day helping the Windows team manage a much smaller number of systems.
Disney pushed hard for nearly indefinite ownership of copyright & stifling the public domain. Now it's coming back to bite them on the ass. I love it.
.. is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Pigeon?
I know a bearded lady that might change your mind. But my evidence is NSFW.
This is your daughter's education that you're messing with, not another opportunity to evangelize Linux or force it into a place where it's not yet welcome.
Just get her a Macbook, top off her debit card from time to time, and STFU so she can be a successful student.
...well, don't believe him. But check out his sources. The ground based version is almost certainly being used as an anti-personnel weapon already.
http://www.infowars.com/what-is-the-secret-killing-weapon-in-iraq/
http://www.popsci.com/bown/2008/product/boeing-advanced-tactical-laser
August of 2008 a similar report was released.
There has also been a lot of chatter that Iraqi insurgents have already fallen victim to the ATL and fear it.
I had a Pro account with Flickr but I had some other issues with Flickr that caused me to allow it to lapse. In the meantime I've been checking out other sites, and the one that seems most Flickr-like without the culture of censorship running it behind the scenes is iPernity.
If you're in the US, due to currency exchange rates their equivalent of a Pro account costs a bit more but it's still pretty reasonable.
Ethernet is not always best. Ring topologies have inherent advantages in environments like this that should not be overlooked. Ethernet caught on in large part because of vendors catering to a dumbed-down market.
It has ELECTROLYTES and makes you FLY REALLY FAST! You'll also WIN at things you're not even supposed to WIN at like BUZZING! BRAWNDO will make you WIN AT BUZZING!
I went to Disneyworld in 1984 with my parents, where I got a Pirates of the Carribean toy pistol. I had it in my carry-on bag and was stopped at the gate. The toy had to be surrendered before I could board the plane. The TSA sucks and should be eliminated, but please, let's not pretend that this is unusual or new.
Warzone 2100. I just saved you a bunch of $$. You'll love this game.
Where in the Constitution does the Federal government derive the authority to require & provide universal health care for citizens of the 50 states?
The analog TV works fine with my digital tuner box. The other analog TV works fine with my MythTV. I'm not worried.
I don't own a Blu Ray player. I briefly owned an HDTV but went back to the old analog TV. Sorry, but I'm opting out. The digital entertainment revolution today isn't selling anything that I'm buying. If that means I miss out on things, so be it.
When it was easy to back up a DVD, I legitimately purchased over 600 movies. As the copy protections became increasingly difficult to work around, I simply stopped buying. Hollywood stopped getting my money. I took all that money that I was spending on DVD's and bought a motorcycle instead. Now instead of sitting on the couch wasting 90-120 minutes of my life at a time, I'm spending that time enjoying getting around (rain or shine) like never before.
It's been a year since I ditched the HDTV and maybe 2 years since I stopped buying DVD's. I don't miss it.
Don't like the terms they are giving you? OPT OUT!
The best ad for the Ford Fiesta ever.
No, I was the guy at the Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party protest calling for secession and getting armed. Not sure how you could confuse me with a progressive statist.
Before the market realizes the dilution of the dollar's value from Mr. Obama's previous "visions" (we call them "hallucinations" here), he's going to keep printing and spending Federal Reserve Notes with wild abandon on things we don't even need.
Millions of people will have money taken from them to fund a train that will be used by thousands. If this concept made sense, the private sector would have done it already. It doesn't make sense.
The upshot of all of this is that we may finally get the revolution we've been waiting for. The tree of liberty is parched!
This could have been a real PR coup for NASA but they screwed up.
Bingo. I'm quite sure NASA would be keen on seeing what's in shadow detail, something that film is outstanding at.
400MP is more than a bit of an exaggeration of reality. I'm a big proponent of medium format films myself but I'm hard pressed to come up with a 120 film that can be expected to resolve at better than 200MP in a 6x6cm square. Just because the drum scanner will scan it at 400MP doesn't mean you're resolving any more detail from the emulsion than you would have at 399MP (let alone 200MP or in most cases 120MP).
With that said, I can take a grainy consumer grade fast film like Ilford HP5+ (ISO 400) and starting from a small web-sized image I can scale up to resolve some pretty incredible distant details. That's consumer film on a consumer flat bed scanner with little in the way of preparation for scanning.
Given a stable shooting platform, like a lunar lander, and a nice slow fine-grained film, such negatives run through modern professional lab grade drum scanners would be of a much higher resolution than you're going to get out of, say, a modern Canon EOS 5D Mk II.
NASA made extensive use of medium format cameras back then. It's very likely the film from back then carried a higher resolution image than a professional DSLR made today.
And Natalie Portman is commander of the Peoples' Front of Judea.
And it will then "just work" with T-Mobile?