That's true - I switched firts to Fuji, then to Kodak film so many years a go that I forgot Agfa even had an own-brand stock.
To clarify, my earlier comment was wrtten about my experiences with Kodak Ekta-100 color reversal film, other films will vary, often quite drastically!
The term "Speed Bump" has been in use in Apple circlessine at least the time the original 8100 PowerPC went from 80 to 100 to 110 Mhz.
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If you follow the nebulas, you might be interested to see the recently announced shortlist for the other big SciFi awards, the Hugos:
http://www.noreascon.org/hugos/nominees.html
The Hugos are voted for by the attendees/supporters of the World Science Fiction Convention, whereas the Nebulas are voted on by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, in case you were wondering what the difference is.
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Actually, it's about 2-3 film grains per pixel.
I used to make 35mm slides from computer files with my Agfa QCR-Z slide writer (and I still do from time to time for the few places that still use 35mms for projection).
It has the same resolution of 4k (4000 lpi) that these films are being scanned at. The pixels are significantly bigger than film grains, but are just about too small to bring into focus with a really good 35mm projector.
Later on, they made 8k and 16k resolution versions, which were mostly used for larger format than 35mm output because of the film grain issue (and the fact that the damn device used an RS-232 connection and therefore took 4-5 minutes to image a 4k line file)
Wonderful as Google is, I'm finding more and more searches don't produce useful results.
I keep getting high rankings from sites like bizrate and kelkoo, which don't have any content whatsoever, but have convinced google to show pages that say "search for best prices on xxxx" where xxxx is my search term. Often the problem is so bad that I don't see any sites with content until page 2 of google.
Another issue is with searches for song lyrics. There are dozens of identikit advert sites which drown a tiny (and often inaccurate) text payload is a swarm of adverts. Finding a site written by someone who cares about accuracy is getting impossible.
What I want is sites ranked by volume of relvant content, with a negative ranking element for duplicate sites and a stronger negative ranking for multiple adverts.
Oh, and what I would also find useful is a 'go (after blocking adservers)' button instead of a 'go' button.
Consider the tech support savings in having 1200 machines that won't run 99.9% of trojans/spyware/junk when dumb users click on things without thinking.
If this is a degenerative condition, you might want to consider products aimed primarily at the blind or partially sighted, such as a talking book player - in Britain these can be bought from the Royal National Institute for the Blind here:http://onlineshop.rnib.org.uk/display_product.asp?prodid=2169
Well, I keep reading replies as long as people write them;-)
Unless the liquid cooling is convectional, there are going to be pumps involved.
If the HD is watertight, there is no reason it shouldn't be in the liquid too, and 5 of the 6 faces of a cuboid cd/dvd can safely be immersed. These are the 2 major sources of noise with my fanless iMac.
Because someone out there will probably find this useful, here's how to banish the Quicktime nag screen (known to work in OS9, not tested by me in OSX):
Set your Mac clock a year or so into the future, reboot, play a quicktime file, (going past the nag screen), set clock back, reboot.
The nag screen will go away until 1 day after the date you chose.
By your logic, you would be able to hear a conversation in the next room more clearly if you closed the door, because the door would conduct sound better than air.
I'm not too up on the physics of it, but I believe the sound vibrations are converted to (a tiny amount of) heat by solid (or liquid) objects, which is why they cut down sound levels, and also a lot of reflection happens at the boundary between the air and the insulator.
You can demonstrate this effect by listening to a (waterproof) radio while having a bath. Stick your head under the water and the sound will be very muffled.
1) Settling with governments is not always going to be possible. With over 200 countries in the world, eventually one will stand by it's principles (or more likely get too greedy) and force a change of policy. For example, the current EU judgement is not just a fine, it's a fine + a demand for compliance. The fine will keep growing if the compliance doesn't happen.
2) Settling with Microsoft is fast becoming a viable business model. All you need is to sell software in a market they are unfairly dominating (roll your own mozilla distro for about $0 for example) and a lawer who will take you on no-win-no-fee basis (becoming easier as case law mounts up against Microsoft).
1. Write a software product that can't compete because Microsoft are abusing their monopoly 2. Send in the lawyers and keep fighting until you get offed a nice big payoff 3. Profit
In essence, that's what Sun just did.
The problem for Microsoft is that OSS makes the cost of step 1 tend towards $0, and precedents and case law are sending the cost of step 2 in that direction too.
No, posting a link to something that Apple thinks might be illegal in the USA but proably just allows fair use is +2 informative. Big difference there.
That keynote was exactly 3 months ago, on 6th Jan this year.
The problem is that developers and the slashdot crowd are early adopters, and OSX is perfect for them, but all the non-thechy people who bought a mac because they wanted a computer they could understand have a huge resistance to change (especially if it breaks all their apps, adds scary things like command lines, and costs $100 every few months). You have no idea how scared things like the 'dock' make technophobic people who are used to OS9.
I have 2 macs, one at home I can't switch because it's pre-USB and panther doesn't support it, and another at work that I can't switch because most of my apps either haven't been ported or cost a fortune to upgrade.
I'll get an OSX machine eventually, but
As for admitting OS9 will go away? Well if you thought those Amiga people were fanatical, just you wait....
Oh, and thanks to the AC who mentioned the port of 1.3.1, that's the most useful thing I've ever got from slashdot. In my defence, I've spent hours on mozilla.org looking for something like that and failed to find it.
Even if you believe Steve Jobs 'reality distortion field' figure fron his keynote speech that 40% of mac users are running OSX, that still leaves 60% on OS9, and we've not had a port of Mozilla for OS9 since 1.2 (which was as buggy as hell).
If you hack macs, please do the silent majority a favour and port a stable version of mozilla for us!
I'm signing up for this as soon as I can - not because I want it or need it at the moment, but because if I'm going to use it at some point in the future, I'd rather be myname@gmail.com rather than myname3478998634@gmail.com
"the cost of taking a new photo with Polish employees would have been trivial"
I'm guessing you have never hired a professional photographer?
I figure 3 days for the trip to Poland, 100+ shots of large-format film stock, add in airfare plus shipping costs for lighting and cameras, living expenses for photographer and assistant(s), disruption to plant while you pick out 50 employees and get them to pose, plus buy-out on the rights for the image(s) that you high-res scan and digitally comp together to get a final pic where everyone is smiling and no-one is blinking, and you'll be lucky to have change from $30,000.
...and AMD cpus, and Transmeta, and Cyrix, and Windows is included in virtual PC for Macs with IBM cpus and Motorola cpus, and there's that cut down thing for PDAs and Phones, which I think runs on ARM chips, and Hitachis and...
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That's true - I switched firts to Fuji, then to Kodak film so many years a go that I forgot Agfa even had an own-brand stock.
To clarify, my earlier comment was wrtten about my experiences with Kodak Ekta-100 color reversal film, other films will vary, often quite drastically!
You are mixing "Speed Bump" up with "Speedbump".
The term "Speed Bump" has been in use in Apple circlessine at least the time the original 8100 PowerPC went from 80 to 100 to 110 Mhz.
If you follow the nebulas, you might be interested to see the recently announced shortlist for the other big SciFi awards, the Hugos:
http://www.noreascon.org/hugos/nominees.html
The Hugos are voted for by the attendees/supporters of the World Science Fiction Convention, whereas the Nebulas are voted on by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, in case you were wondering what the difference is.
Actually, it's about 2-3 film grains per pixel.
I used to make 35mm slides from computer files with my Agfa QCR-Z slide writer (and I still do from time to time for the few places that still use 35mms for projection).
It has the same resolution of 4k (4000 lpi) that these films are being scanned at. The pixels are significantly bigger than film grains, but are just about too small to bring into focus with a really good 35mm projector.
Later on, they made 8k and 16k resolution versions, which were mostly used for larger format than 35mm output because of the film grain issue (and the fact that the damn device used an RS-232 connection and therefore took 4-5 minutes to image a 4k line file)
Wonderful as Google is, I'm finding more and more searches don't produce useful results.
I keep getting high rankings from sites like bizrate and kelkoo, which don't have any content whatsoever, but have convinced google to show pages that say "search for best prices on xxxx" where xxxx is my search term. Often the problem is so bad that I don't see any sites with content until page 2 of google.
Another issue is with searches for song lyrics. There are dozens of identikit advert sites which drown a tiny (and often inaccurate) text payload is a swarm of adverts. Finding a site written by someone who cares about accuracy is getting impossible.
What I want is sites ranked by volume of relvant content, with a negative ranking element for duplicate sites and a stronger negative ranking for multiple adverts.
Oh, and what I would also find useful is a 'go (after blocking adservers)' button instead of a 'go' button.
Consider the tech support savings in having 1200 machines that won't run 99.9% of trojans/spyware/junk when dumb users click on things without thinking.
If this is a degenerative condition, you might want to consider products aimed primarily at the blind or partially sighted, such as a talking book player - in Britain these can be bought from the Royal National Institute for the Blind here:http://onlineshop.rnib.org.uk/display_product .asp?prodid=2169
has killed several programmers, is /. sigs are to be beleived.
However a personal favourite of mine is on an old can of chocolate drink powder, the recipe for making it up includes the follwing instruction:
Add 2 heaped tablesppons of milk.
Well, I keep reading replies as long as people write them ;-)
Unless the liquid cooling is convectional, there are going to be pumps involved.
If the HD is watertight, there is no reason it shouldn't be in the liquid too, and 5 of the 6 faces of a cuboid cd/dvd can safely be immersed. These are the 2 major sources of noise with my fanless iMac.
Because someone out there will probably find this useful, here's how to banish the Quicktime nag screen (known to work in OS9, not tested by me in OSX):
Set your Mac clock a year or so into the future, reboot, play a quicktime file, (going past the nag screen), set clock back, reboot.
The nag screen will go away until 1 day after the date you chose.
By your logic, you would be able to hear a conversation in the next room more clearly if you closed the door, because the door would conduct sound better than air.
I'm not too up on the physics of it, but I believe the sound vibrations are converted to (a tiny amount of) heat by solid (or liquid) objects, which is why they cut down sound levels, and also a lot of reflection happens at the boundary between the air and the insulator.
You can demonstrate this effect by listening to a (waterproof) radio while having a bath. Stick your head under the water and the sound will be very muffled.
Liquids don't conduct sound very well, so that is where you'll probably find big noise level reductions.
1) Settling with governments is not always going to be possible. With over 200 countries in the world, eventually one will stand by it's principles (or more likely get too greedy) and force a change of policy. For example, the current EU judgement is not just a fine, it's a fine + a demand for compliance. The fine will keep growing if the compliance doesn't happen.
2) Settling with Microsoft is fast becoming a viable business model. All you need is to sell software in a market they are unfairly dominating (roll your own mozilla distro for about $0 for example) and a lawer who will take you on no-win-no-fee basis (becoming easier as case law mounts up against Microsoft).
You could cut your rendering time down to about 1/200th sec by employing the following hardware:
...whatever that blurry thing top right is supposed to be.
old cookie tin
2 marbles
cheap disposable camera and a...
The resultant time saving could be usefully employed learing how the gif file format works.
Not if your software is GPLed.
A paid CD distro of Mozilla for exapmle would fit the bill perfectly.
Take a look at this business plan:
1. Write a software product that can't compete because Microsoft are abusing their monopoly
2. Send in the lawyers and keep fighting until you get offed a nice big payoff
3. Profit
In essence, that's what Sun just did.
The problem for Microsoft is that OSS makes the cost of step 1 tend towards $0, and precedents and case law are sending the cost of step 2 in that direction too.
So, what's stopping you?
No, posting a link to something that Apple thinks might be illegal in the USA but proably just allows fair use is +2 informative. Big difference there.
I installed Linux on it!
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That keynote was exactly 3 months ago, on 6th Jan this year.
The problem is that developers and the slashdot crowd are early adopters, and OSX is perfect for them, but all the non-thechy people who bought a mac because they wanted a computer they could understand have a huge resistance to change (especially if it breaks all their apps, adds scary things like command lines, and costs $100 every few months). You have no idea how scared things like the 'dock' make technophobic people who are used to OS9.
I have 2 macs, one at home I can't switch because it's pre-USB and panther doesn't support it, and another at work that I can't switch because most of my apps either haven't been ported or cost a fortune to upgrade.
I'll get an OSX machine eventually, but
As for admitting OS9 will go away? Well if you thought those Amiga people were fanatical, just you wait....
Oh, and thanks to the AC who mentioned the port of 1.3.1, that's the most useful thing I've ever got from slashdot. In my defence, I've spent hours on mozilla.org looking for something like that and failed to find it.
I guess I must be getting old, I was thinking of these guys
Even if you believe Steve Jobs 'reality distortion field' figure fron his keynote speech that 40% of mac users are running OSX, that still leaves 60% on OS9, and we've not had a port of Mozilla for OS9 since 1.2 (which was as buggy as hell).
If you hack macs, please do the silent majority a favour and port a stable version of mozilla for us!
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Is that you, G.W.B?
I'm signing up for this as soon as I can - not because I want it or need it at the moment, but because if I'm going to use it at some point in the future, I'd rather be myname@gmail.com rather than myname3478998634@gmail.com
"the cost of taking a new photo with Polish employees would have been trivial"
I'm guessing you have never hired a professional photographer?
I figure 3 days for the trip to Poland, 100+ shots of large-format film stock, add in airfare plus shipping costs for lighting and cameras, living expenses for photographer and assistant(s), disruption to plant while you pick out 50 employees and get them to pose, plus buy-out on the rights for the image(s) that you high-res scan and digitally comp together to get a final pic where everyone is smiling and no-one is blinking, and you'll be lucky to have change from $30,000.
...and AMD cpus, and Transmeta, and Cyrix, and Windows is included in virtual PC for Macs with IBM cpus and Motorola cpus, and there's that cut down thing for PDAs and Phones, which I think runs on ARM chips, and Hitachis and...