They haven't done their research. They say Hasselblad is coming out with a 39MP camera, which will be the most megapixels yet. Not by far: The Seitz 6x17 is 160 MP. Granted, it has a maximum shutter speed of 1 second with the full 160MP, but still... It's also huge. I am amused.
Unfortunately, accessing the record in the first place can be a challenge; it looks like it requires being fingerprinted and making the request through a law enforcement agency that has access to the record. Which is interesting, since one of the categories on the list is
B. Individuals who have been charged with serious and/or significant
offenses:
1. Individuals who have been fingerprinted and whose criminal history
record information has been obtained.
(same source as parent)
So in order to access the list to find out how to get on it, you give them another excuse to put you on it?
Nothing personal, but it's not actually a programmer's job to make sure everything is speelled correktly. This is part of the QA process before a product rolls out the door. This has nothing to do with when the program rolls out the door, it won't (shouldn't) be visible to the users. It's about code comprehensibility and maintainability, and all part of a programmer's job. A plug-in that makes it easier to do this would be a help, as long as it doesn't get in the way of coding.
The distinction between focus and out-of-focus areas is one of the two (!) new things that photography brought to art (the other one being motion blur). While there are some situations where you don't want OOF areas (e.g., landscapes), it is artistically stupid to deliberately focus everything. New, yes, and technically innovative, possibly, but it's dropping one of the most powerful tools in your toolchest. It's like a painter only using a broad brush -- yes, you can do some nice things, but there are many subtle things that are just impossible.
Linux/OSS needs good diagram drawing program support including basic visio import/export (without the executable extensions and VB integration). Dia has significantly improved over the years and it currently approaches Visio as far as features. Some of course are fundamentally different like python integration instead of VB integration, etc. It is still way behind visio on ease of use for the basic UI (when it comes to advanced stuff they both suck bricks through a thin straw sidewise). Also, dia integration into openoffice is inexistent. What made visio the de-facto corporate diagram standard is the integration into office. Dia has none. It does not even have a suitable export which can be imported into openoffice as vector graphics. While at it - openoffice support for internal graphics drawn using impress and/or writer. These leave a lot to be desired as well.
As the current (fourth) maintainer of Dia, I'm all ears about what could be improved, but alas permanently short on time. I wish SVG was a better output format, but I have yet to see two renderers render text the same way. Writing an exporter for Dia is not hard, but real integration is a different beast. I had hopes that Bonobo would be the glue that could get diagrams to "live" in other documents, but it seems to have died with no replacement. As for ease of use of basic UI, there are several points we are working on as quickly as time with a full-time job allows.
Slow? No, we get our results the same evening *and* we get an extra count the next day. Prone to human error? Since it's open to the public, there are many eyes checking for errors. Sounds familiar? Hanging chads? I suppose there could be votes that are pencilled in in an uncertain manner (note no machines for marking the vote either, we've seen just how much this helps), but with multiple independent verifiers those can be sorted out. It also scales well with the number of people voting and costs very little.
The only real problem I can see is if somebody were to try to bully everybody during the counting process, but if that happens, I'm not sure the country is ready for democracy.
Voting machines are a technical non-solution to a non-existing problem. Counting votes by hand in public view is almost as fast, has much fewer things that could go wrong with them, and is intrinsically open to public scrunity like no machine system can ever be. Plus, it's cheaper. It works in Denmark, it should scale perfectly well to the US.
Hear, hear! Denmark has manual counting from paper votes, too, and it just works. We get the results the same evening. Importantly, the counting (and re-counting next day) are both open to the public. I see *absolutely* no need for machinery.
The cost does not stem from the malpractice suits themselves, but from the ridiculous extra amount of bureaucracy and doublechecks that are used to avoid more of them.
But also from the fact that US health care systems invest a lot more in expensive machinery.
My brother, who's a "travelling tech support" guy, has had the "opportunity" to help a number of people with brand new (not upgraded) Vista installations, and his recommendation is to steer well clear of Vista. I'm just waiting for the flood of cheap graphics cards that are not Vista-compatible but got produced anyway.
A web site is a place in the world wide web that contains a sometimes editable graphical representation of text, pictures, videos and links to other sites.
Wow. And here I thought/. was a web site, and now it turns out that it's in fact a large collection of them. Incredible.
As one involved in web archiving, I can tell you that there really is no good definition of a web site. In some cases it's fairly obvious what belongs together, due to domain names and layout, but as more and more content is mixed and made dynamic, the term loses more and more meaning. Even defining a web page is pretty hard when not just images but entire sections of HTML can be inlined from other sources. And what happens when you get redirected? It's damn fuzzy out there.
Acidophilus has been on the Danish market since 1938 (the main brand being called A-38 for the bacterium and the year of introduction). It's good stuff, too.
This posting requires mention of Duke Nukem 3D, where not only did corpses stay on the ground as solid objects, if you walked over them, you left bloody bootprints for a while. That game had so many details right.
It seems like a lot of people comparing open source and closed source do it entirely inside the IT world. Surely the major benefit from IT is not in the IT companies themselves, but in the fact that they (supposedly:) make other industries more productive. Getting cheap and good systems out to all manner of businesses is what drives an economy up, not having rich IT companies. By moving away from the few-large-companies model where IPR is important towards a much flatter IT environment where getting code to work is important, we are allowing many more businesses to reap the benefit from IT -- and *that* is good for a country.
Which is the funny part, 'cause you'd have thought the French would have learned that going through Belgium is feasible after the Germans did it in WWI.
The French actually fought ferociously, if somewhat outdatedly, in WWI. In WWII, they were somewhat smarter, but their equipment sucked.
Well, go back to bed then. The powermeters measure your usage in watt-hours, not watts. So an LED that blinks when a watt-hour has been used is meaningful (if less useful than, say, a digital read-out of watt-hours used). Thus if it blibnks once per hour, you are using one watt-hour per hour, or one watt (on average during that hour).
What's missing from bash(/zsh etc) programming is easy graphics. I have yet to see/usr/bin/draw that makes lines on the terminal. Shell languages have everything else, including a very direct interface.
It's a setting in recent Gnome versions, under Keyboard Preferences there is a (unusually large for Gnome) set of ways to change the Layout Options, include 8 (!) different things to do for Caps Lock.
My Caps Lock key is gainfully in use to change the keyboard layout between English and Danish. It's wonderful as it lights up an LED, so I can easily see the state I'm in, and it's very handily placed. Please don't take my Caps^H^H^H^HLayout Lock key away!
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They haven't done their research. They say Hasselblad is coming out with a 39MP camera, which will be the most megapixels yet. Not by far: The Seitz 6x17 is 160 MP. Granted, it has a maximum shutter speed of 1 second with the full 160MP, but still... It's also huge. I am amused.
So in order to access the list to find out how to get on it, you give them another excuse to put you on it?
-Lars
-Lars
The distinction between focus and out-of-focus areas is one of the two (!) new things that photography brought to art (the other one being motion blur). While there are some situations where you don't want OOF areas (e.g., landscapes), it is artistically stupid to deliberately focus everything. New, yes, and technically innovative, possibly, but it's dropping one of the most powerful tools in your toolchest. It's like a painter only using a broad brush -- yes, you can do some nice things, but there are many subtle things that are just impossible.
-Lars
As the current (fourth) maintainer of Dia, I'm all ears about what could be improved, but alas permanently short on time. I wish SVG was a better output format, but I have yet to see two renderers render text the same way. Writing an exporter for Dia is not hard, but real integration is a different beast. I had hopes that Bonobo would be the glue that could get diagrams to "live" in other documents, but it seems to have died with no replacement. As for ease of use of basic UI, there are several points we are working on as quickly as time with a full-time job allows.
-Lars
Slow? No, we get our results the same evening *and* we get an extra count the next day. Prone to human error? Since it's open to the public, there are many eyes checking for errors. Sounds familiar? Hanging chads? I suppose there could be votes that are pencilled in in an uncertain manner (note no machines for marking the vote either, we've seen just how much this helps), but with multiple independent verifiers those can be sorted out. It also scales well with the number of people voting and costs very little.
The only real problem I can see is if somebody were to try to bully everybody during the counting process, but if that happens, I'm not sure the country is ready for democracy.
Voting machines are a technical non-solution to a non-existing problem. Counting votes by hand in public view is almost as fast, has much fewer things that could go wrong with them, and is intrinsically open to public scrunity like no machine system can ever be. Plus, it's cheaper. It works in Denmark, it should scale perfectly well to the US.
Same in mine (or is mine the same?), see here for details. Both counts (!) are open to the public, too. What more could you want?
-Lars
Hear, hear! Denmark has manual counting from paper votes, too, and it just works. We get the results the same evening. Importantly, the counting (and re-counting next day) are both open to the public. I see *absolutely* no need for machinery.
Link to more info (in English).
The cost does not stem from the malpractice suits themselves, but from the ridiculous extra amount of bureaucracy and doublechecks that are used to avoid more of them.
But also from the fact that US health care systems invest a lot more in expensive machinery.
My brother, who's a "travelling tech support" guy, has had the "opportunity" to help a number of people with brand new (not upgraded) Vista installations, and his recommendation is to steer well clear of Vista. I'm just waiting for the flood of cheap graphics cards that are not Vista-compatible but got produced anyway.
-Lars
Wow. And here I thought
-Lars
As one involved in web archiving, I can tell you that there really is no good definition of a web site. In some cases it's fairly obvious what belongs together, due to domain names and layout, but as more and more content is mixed and made dynamic, the term loses more and more meaning. Even defining a web page is pretty hard when not just images but entire sections of HTML can be inlined from other sources. And what happens when you get redirected? It's damn fuzzy out there.
Judging from the writing quality of this article, he can't write, period.
-Lars
So the FSF and EFF pay their bloggers $100000 or more a year? I know a guy in the EFF who'd feel rather cheated if that were the case.
-Lars
Acidophilus has been on the Danish market since 1938 (the main brand being called A-38 for the bacterium and the year of introduction). It's good stuff, too.
This posting requires mention of Duke Nukem 3D, where not only did corpses stay on the ground as solid objects, if you walked over them, you left bloody bootprints for a while. That game had so many details right.
... is that the OS that most computers use is crap. If making him president can fix that faster than he can get Vista out the door...
-Lars
ITYM use a comma as a decimal point, rather than a period.
-Lars
It seems like a lot of people comparing open source and closed source do it entirely inside the IT world. Surely the major benefit from IT is not in the IT companies themselves, but in the fact that they (supposedly:) make other industries more productive. Getting cheap and good systems out to all manner of businesses is what drives an economy up, not having rich IT companies. By moving away from the few-large-companies model where IPR is important towards a much flatter IT environment where getting code to work is important, we are allowing many more businesses to reap the benefit from IT -- and *that* is good for a country.
-Lars
Which is the funny part, 'cause you'd have thought the French would have learned that going through Belgium is feasible after the Germans did it in WWI.
The French actually fought ferociously, if somewhat outdatedly, in WWI. In WWII, they were somewhat smarter, but their equipment sucked.
-Lars
Well, go back to bed then. The powermeters measure your usage in watt-hours, not watts. So an LED that blinks when a watt-hour has been used is meaningful (if less useful than, say, a digital read-out of watt-hours used). Thus if it blibnks once per hour, you are using one watt-hour per hour, or one watt (on average during that hour).
Surely you mean
/usr/bin/draw that makes lines on the terminal. Shell languages have everything else, including a very direct interface.
while true; do
echo 'Hello, world!'
done
[ -z "" ] is just overkill.
What's missing from bash(/zsh etc) programming is easy graphics. I have yet to see
-Lars
It's a setting in recent Gnome versions, under Keyboard Preferences there is a (unusually large for Gnome) set of ways to change the Layout Options, include 8 (!) different things to do for Caps Lock.
My Caps Lock key is gainfully in use to change the keyboard layout between English and Danish. It's wonderful as it lights up an LED, so I can easily see the state I'm in, and it's very handily placed. Please don't take my Caps^H^H^H^HLayout Lock key away!