Care to tell how I'm supposed to be a thief, while I'm listening for a CD chosen from my collection of a couple of hundred or so audio CDs I've bought since 1991 and player application uses the database to display track/artist information?
(Sure, I could just look at the track number and compare it to the listing contained at the back of the CD. But why not use the technology, when it's available.)
As stated by the subject, the bosses are just as human as the other team members. So, while it can be hoped that being capable of diplomacy, tact and some ego control helps one to become a boss, it does not guarantee that they can't get stubborn and irrational as well every now and then.
Regarding the closed-source projects, I'd assume that most of the ones that were damaged sufficiently by personnel conflicts would do so inside the walls of a company, without much publicity. After all, not all projects get hyped much until they have progressed moderately far, whether they are open or closed source.
The "third party standard" just appears the one that every browser should ideally follow. Granted, we're living in an inperfect world, but I'd personally except Microsoft to be completely capable of allocating sufficient amount of resources to make their browser pretty close to 100% compatibility with the W3 standards without exactly going bankrupt.
And I don't think IE has had 95% share of the browsers for a year or two now; AFAIK the numbers are somewhere between 80-90%, depending on who you ask. Granted, it's still the most popular browser, but the others are getting to numbers where they can't be easily ignored anymore...
On the home computer front, I assume Ghostbusters was one of the first games to use digitized voice, at least on Commodore 64. It was released on somewhere on 1984. And at least regarding the music and the speech, it was pretty impressive back then. Of course, digitized speech became not-so-rare on C-64 and especially on the Amiga soon after that.
On the home computer front, I assume Ghostbusters was one of the first games to use digitized voice, at least on Commodore 64. It was released on somewhere on 1984. And at least regarding the music and the speech, it was pretty impressive back then. Of course, digitized speech became not-so-rare on C-64 and especially on the Amiga soon after that.
Digital is still and always will be THERE or NOT THERE, nothing in-between. Films ability to capture variance of color, the shadow detail is soemthing digital will just never replace it.
Any particular fundamental physical reasons that prevent it from happening..? What I'm trying to say that strong claims stand better with some reasons included, or at least some hints for searching them.
The Pyramids aren't "incorrectly placed" to represent the stars of "Orion". Their positions are different from Orion's exact shape today, but are exactly correct for their slightly different positions 13.5Ky ago - and again about 12Ky in the future.
Hmm? I find it somewhat strange that the motion of the brighter stars of Orion would cause them to form the *same* shape again. That would pretty much need the stars to change their course, because the rotation around the galactic center of gravity nonwithstanding, their movement hardly has any cycling elements. Or do you mean something else; their position relative to the celestial north pole or something like that..?
No; while I and my SO do not play games that much these days (too much other hobbies, work and other time-eaters), our W98SE box works just fine for some old games such as Master of Orion, Master of Magic, Fallout series, Baldur's Gate, Arcanum and so on, as well as other light leisure usage.
Sure, many of them could be played on DOSBox/DOSEMU/Bochs/whatever under Linux, or on a more recent version of Windows. Sure, W98 is not exactly the most impressive OS out there. But why bother; even the security concerns are somewhat moderate here, as pretty much only access the box does to the evil outside world that resides behind the firewall is browsing and the updates to the antivirus software.
The Mozilla folks are free to abandon support for the old Windows versions and I can understand/accept especially the techical reasons such as an oppoturnity for code cleanup, no problem. But labeling W98 as useless for anything anymore, like many seem to do, is somewhat misleading. The box will eventually break some day, but until that it Just Works(tm) for its current purpose.
It was certainly one damn impressive game technically. The visual style was pretty much unique (a trait that I recall from several other French games as well; at least Captain Blood, the not-really-sequel Flashback that I nonetheless liked more and Passengers of the Wind), and even the gameplay felt different than your average arcade adventure.
I always wondered if the makers of the State of the Art demo had been influenced by the game. (Well, it was not the first game ever to use rotoscoped graphics, but still...)
The filter was Heliopan RG-695, which is pretty close in its characteristics to the popular Hoya R72. The photo has been taken around the sunset time, and thus the water reflected a significant amount of light from the setting sun.
...so the last paragraph was nicely unfinished. It would have been something like:
(Well, obviously I won't take the camera equipment with me to places where it's not welcome, but then again, as my employer does not have a problem with me having the equipment with me at work as long as I don't shoot anything company confidential, I can carry it around me most of the time.)
I keep Canon EOS 20D, three lenses (a wideangle zoom, a fast 50mm prime lens for low light/thin DOF situations and a tele zoom) and some miscellaneous tools such as extension tube set and a combined timer/remote with me most of the time. I'm not even doing it for any money; I'm just shooting for my own fun, whatever happens to catch my eye, whether it's a couple of sparrowsor a beach in infrared.
I realize that most people might find carrying ~2.5 kilograms of photography equipment around somewhat uncomfortable, but then again, there are plenty of people in the world doing things that I would think as uncomfortable. I'll leave mountain climbing, body piercings and swimming in freezing water to them, just like they leave camera-lugging to me:)
(Well, obviously I won't take the camera equipment with me to places where it's not welcome, but then again
Desktop Linux? Nope. It's got two permanant and fatal flaws. No huge marketing department, and no goons breathing down OEM and channel partner throats.
Personally, I'm not sure if the first of these flaws is only a negative thing.:)
Anyway, I hit the tile of 4 groups of 99 azure monks with that baby and it took a full 15 minutes to get through the damage messages.
I'm pretty sure that this is from the Bards Tale I and happens in some tower whose name I can't remember right now. The 4x99 monks were an initially really painfully tough fight even with any mass destruction spells, until we got a fire horn for the bard of the group. That was sufficient addition to get the amount of monks down to something that we could survive.
I agree. While the search engine behind the UI might well be interesting, the UI in its current form is hideously painful for me.:I Mouse wheel does not work in the search results 'box' for scrolling, when I go back to the search results from a site, something in the page is generated dynamically, the box does not appear to scale horizontally and thus takes a ridicuously small amount of available space, it managed once in a span of few minutes to completely hang my Mozilla... I do not remember any search engine so far making such a painful impression in so short time.
Hopefully somebody gives the UI an overhaul, preferably sooner than later.
Why change then? Why upgrade to XP at all? Maybe you need a fresh reinstall on those '95 and '98 boxes. They should run okay.
Because the old boxes break eventually and 95 and 98 drivers will not be provided indefinitely for new products; AFAIK Win 98 / 98SE is already the oldest Microsoft OS that is supported by some products.
2. The hardware driver support is in many ways still better for Windows, especially for the latest hardware.
While this is true, I suppose most elementary schools in the world usually have anything but the latest hardware, which is also kind of implied here by the mention about Win 95 and 98; the machines running them are probably half a decade or more old, with some more recent ones (i.e. the ones with XP) replacing old when they break.
When they'll go to High School they'll be using Windows machines there. After they graduate they'll be using Windows machines at university. After they graduate from university they'll be using Windows at work.
While you have a point, I wouldn't go so far as predicting what is the status of Windows in 10-20 years. It may be still the dominant OS (and it's fairly likely), but that is not automatically true. It wouldn't be the first time in the when something apparently unsurpassed will be surpassed (Not even necessarily by Linux, MacOS or anything currently reasonably widely known).
As said in the subject, some Canon EOS SLR camera bodies have had eye-controlled focus point selection for a while now. Some people claim that it works beautifully for them. I don't have a good link about this, but googling for ECF or eye-controlled focus and Canon EOS toghether should provide some basic information about it.
I suppose I'm glad that Firefox only leaks around 100MB/day, and hangs for a good 30 seconds after closing a window - because I wouldn't expect it to even run after looking at the code base.
Where does this figure of 100MB/day come from? I'm wondering about this, because (according to top; yeah, I know that it's not the most accurate way in the world to gauge memory usage...) the Firefox I'm running at work appears to have allocated about 375 MB, is in fairly constant use each workday and has been started in 2005. While FF is by no means perfect, I find the quoted figure somewhat...interesting. I suppose that the 1.5 series leaks more than the 1.0.x series, but the figure still doesn't sound likely.
Um, I assume that instead of 100 light years you mean something like slightly less than 10 million light years..?:) (NGC 404 is assumed to be just far enough to be not gravitationally bound to the local group, and it's about 8 million light years away.)
UFRaw and dcraw appear to give me a nice way to load RAW photos into the GIMP. The conversion from RAW is done with 16-bits per component accuracy, although the end result will then be sampled down to 8 bits per component. Obviously, this is not quite the same as having the 16-bits per component accuracy available all the time, but at least things like color balance, brightness/gamma etc. can be tweaked within the more accurate representation before the downsampling.
One of my three lenses (70-300 DO IS USM) has the image stabilization. It does not rely on any software trickery, but instead has a separate lens group that is moved to counteract the shaking of the lens, resulting to a significant reduction in lens shake; the advertised value is about three stops. It's not a complete replacement for tripod (if your target moves in non-linear way, there's little or no help from the IS and it does not help with truly long exposures), but an useful feature nonetheless.
I suppose this is more or less similar to how other manufacturers do it (well, in some cases the sensor is moved instead of an internal lens group, but it's still not 'fake')
On the cheapest digital cameras with the really small sensors and limited optics/manual controls, the possibilities of night photography are seriously compromised.
However, things improve while moving up towards the high-end equipment. For example, my 20D DSLR can take exposures limited only by the battery life and noise won't be a problem unless your exposure goes in tens of minutes range, which is more than sufficient to shoot with moonlight only.
Some of my favourite night photos in Flickr have been done by this guy and he's using a DSLR:
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Care to tell how I'm supposed to be a thief, while I'm listening for a CD chosen from my collection of a couple of hundred or so audio CDs I've bought since 1991 and player application uses the database to display track/artist information?
(Sure, I could just look at the track number and compare it to the listing contained at the back of the CD. But why not use the technology, when it's available.)
As stated by the subject, the bosses are just as human as the other team members. So, while it can be hoped that being capable of diplomacy, tact and some ego control helps one to become a boss, it does not guarantee that they can't get stubborn and irrational as well every now and then.
Regarding the closed-source projects, I'd assume that most of the ones that were damaged sufficiently by personnel conflicts would do so inside the walls of a company, without much publicity. After all, not all projects get hyped much until they have progressed moderately far, whether they are open or closed source.
The "third party standard" just appears the one that every browser should ideally follow. Granted, we're living in an inperfect world, but I'd personally except Microsoft to be completely capable of allocating sufficient amount of resources to make their browser pretty close to 100% compatibility with the W3 standards without exactly going bankrupt.
And I don't think IE has had 95% share of the browsers for a year or two now; AFAIK the numbers are somewhere between 80-90%, depending on who you ask. Granted, it's still the most popular browser, but the others are getting to numbers where they can't be easily ignored anymore...
On the home computer front, I assume Ghostbusters was one of the first games to use digitized voice, at least on Commodore 64. It was released on somewhere on 1984. And at least regarding the music and the speech, it was pretty impressive back then. Of course, digitized speech became not-so-rare on C-64 and especially on the Amiga soon after that.
On the home computer front, I assume Ghostbusters was one of the first games to use digitized voice, at least on Commodore 64. It was released on somewhere on 1984. And at least regarding the music and the speech, it was pretty impressive back then. Of course, digitized speech became not-so-rare on C-64 and especially on the Amiga soon after that.
Digital is still and always will be THERE or NOT THERE, nothing in-between. Films ability to capture variance of color, the shadow detail is soemthing digital will just never replace it.
Any particular fundamental physical reasons that prevent it from happening..? What I'm trying to say that strong claims stand better with some reasons included, or at least some hints for searching them.
The Pyramids aren't "incorrectly placed" to represent the stars of "Orion". Their positions are different from Orion's exact shape today, but are exactly correct for their slightly different positions 13.5Ky ago - and again about 12Ky in the future.
Hmm? I find it somewhat strange that the motion of the brighter stars of Orion would cause them to form the *same* shape again. That would pretty much need the stars to change their course, because the rotation around the galactic center of gravity nonwithstanding, their movement hardly has any cycling elements. Or do you mean something else; their position relative to the celestial north pole or something like that..?
No; while I and my SO do not play games that much these days (too much other hobbies, work and other time-eaters), our W98SE box works just fine for some old games such as Master of Orion, Master of Magic, Fallout series, Baldur's Gate, Arcanum and so on, as well as other light leisure usage.
Sure, many of them could be played on DOSBox/DOSEMU/Bochs/whatever under Linux, or on a more recent version of Windows. Sure, W98 is not exactly the most impressive OS out there. But why bother; even the security concerns are somewhat moderate here, as pretty much only access the box does to the evil outside world that resides behind the firewall is browsing and the updates to the antivirus software.
The Mozilla folks are free to abandon support for the old Windows versions and I can understand/accept especially the techical reasons such as an oppoturnity for code cleanup, no problem. But labeling W98 as useless for anything anymore, like many seem to do, is somewhat misleading. The box will eventually break some day, but until that it Just Works(tm) for its current purpose.
And high resolution, non-shitty CCD+Lenses in the camera?
I'm so sure it makes my Canon EOS 20D obsolete.
It was certainly one damn impressive game technically. The visual style was pretty much unique (a trait that I recall from several other French games as well; at least Captain Blood, the not-really-sequel Flashback that I nonetheless liked more and Passengers of the Wind), and even the gameplay felt different than your average arcade adventure.
I always wondered if the makers of the State of the Art demo had been influenced by the game. (Well, it was not the first game ever to use rotoscoped graphics, but still...)
The filter was Heliopan RG-695, which is pretty close in its characteristics to the popular Hoya R72. The photo has been taken around the sunset time, and thus the water reflected a significant amount of light from the setting sun.
...so the last paragraph was nicely unfinished. It would have been something like:
(Well, obviously I won't take the camera equipment with me to places where it's not welcome, but then again, as my employer does not have a problem with me having the equipment with me at work as long as I don't shoot anything company confidential, I can carry it around me most of the time.)
I keep Canon EOS 20D, three lenses (a wideangle zoom, a fast 50mm prime lens for low light/thin DOF situations and a tele zoom) and some miscellaneous tools such as extension tube set and a combined timer/remote with me most of the time. I'm not even doing it for any money; I'm just shooting for my own fun, whatever happens to catch my eye, whether it's a couple of sparrowsor a beach in infrared.
:)
I realize that most people might find carrying ~2.5 kilograms of photography equipment around somewhat uncomfortable, but then again, there are plenty of people in the world doing things that I would think as uncomfortable. I'll leave mountain climbing, body piercings and swimming in freezing water to them, just like they leave camera-lugging to me
(Well, obviously I won't take the camera equipment with me to places where it's not welcome, but then again
Desktop Linux? Nope. It's got two permanant and fatal flaws. No huge marketing department, and no goons breathing down OEM and channel partner throats.
Personally, I'm not sure if the first of these flaws is only a negative thing. :)
Anyway, I hit the tile of 4 groups of 99 azure monks with that baby and it took a full 15 minutes to get through the damage messages.
I'm pretty sure that this is from the Bards Tale I and happens in some tower whose name I can't remember right now. The 4x99 monks were an initially really painfully tough fight even with any mass destruction spells, until we got a fire horn for the bard of the group. That was sufficient addition to get the amount of monks down to something that we could survive.
I agree. While the search engine behind the UI might well be interesting, the UI in its current form is hideously painful for me. :I Mouse wheel does not work in the search results 'box' for scrolling, when I go back to the search results from a site, something in the page is generated dynamically, the box does not appear to scale horizontally and thus takes a ridicuously small amount of available space, it managed once in a span of few minutes to completely hang my Mozilla... I do not remember any search engine so far making such a painful impression in so short time.
Hopefully somebody gives the UI an overhaul, preferably sooner than later.
Why change then? Why upgrade to XP at all? Maybe you need a fresh reinstall on those '95 and '98 boxes. They should run okay.
Because the old boxes break eventually and 95 and 98 drivers will not be provided indefinitely for new products; AFAIK Win 98 / 98SE is already the oldest Microsoft OS that is supported by some products.
2. The hardware driver support is in many ways still better for Windows, especially for the latest hardware.
While this is true, I suppose most elementary schools in the world usually have anything but the latest hardware, which is also kind of implied here by the mention about Win 95 and 98; the machines running them are probably half a decade or more old, with some more recent ones (i.e. the ones with XP) replacing old when they break.
When they'll go to High School they'll be using Windows machines there.
After they graduate they'll be using Windows machines at university.
After they graduate from university they'll be using Windows at work.
While you have a point, I wouldn't go so far as predicting what is the status of Windows in 10-20 years. It may be still the dominant OS (and it's fairly likely), but that is not automatically true. It wouldn't be the first time in the when something apparently unsurpassed will be surpassed (Not even necessarily by Linux, MacOS or anything currently reasonably widely known).
As said in the subject, some Canon EOS SLR camera bodies have had eye-controlled focus point selection for a while now. Some people claim that it works beautifully for them. I don't have a good link about this, but googling for ECF or eye-controlled focus and Canon EOS toghether should provide some basic information about it.
I suppose I'm glad that Firefox only leaks around 100MB/day, and hangs for a good 30 seconds after closing a window - because I wouldn't expect it to even run after looking at the code base.
Where does this figure of 100MB/day come from? I'm wondering about this, because (according to top; yeah, I know that it's not the most accurate way in the world to gauge memory usage...) the Firefox I'm running at work appears to have allocated about 375 MB, is in fairly constant use each workday and has been started in 2005. While FF is by no means perfect, I find the quoted figure somewhat ...interesting. I suppose that the 1.5 series leaks more than the 1.0.x series, but the figure still doesn't sound likely.
Um, I assume that instead of 100 light years you mean something like slightly less than 10 million light years..? :) (NGC 404 is assumed to be just far enough to be not gravitationally bound to the local group, and it's about 8 million light years away.)
UFRaw and dcraw appear to give me a nice way to load RAW photos into the GIMP. The conversion from RAW is done with 16-bits per component accuracy, although the end result will then be sampled down to 8 bits per component. Obviously, this is not quite the same as having the 16-bits per component accuracy available all the time, but at least things like color balance, brightness/gamma etc. can be tweaked within the more accurate representation before the downsampling.
One of my three lenses (70-300 DO IS USM) has the image stabilization. It does not rely on any software trickery, but instead has a separate lens group that is moved to counteract the shaking of the lens, resulting to a significant reduction in lens shake; the advertised value is about three stops. It's not a complete replacement for tripod (if your target moves in non-linear way, there's little or no help from the IS and it does not help with truly long exposures), but an useful feature nonetheless.
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Some information about how Canon does it:
http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/canonFAQ.htm#3Q6
I suppose this is more or less similar to how other manufacturers do it (well, in some cases the sensor is moved instead of an internal lens group, but it's still not 'fake')
On the cheapest digital cameras with the really small sensors and limited optics/manual controls, the possibilities of night photography are seriously compromised.
However, things improve while moving up towards the high-end equipment. For example, my 20D DSLR can take exposures limited only by the battery life and noise won't be a problem unless your exposure goes in tens of minutes range, which is more than sufficient to shoot with moonlight only.
Some of my favourite night photos in Flickr have been done by this guy and he's using a DSLR:
http://flickr.com/photos/notraces/sets/270103/