good cameras can't be combined with cell phones, the physics of photography demand a lens aperture that won't fit in a phone.
This use to be true. However, as sensors become smaller, but gain higher resolution and lower noise, the optics can be shrunken in proportion. Take a look at the examples of what the upcoming Nokia N90 can do (scroll to the bottom), for an idea of where camera phones are heading.
I'm not saying camera phones will replace professional cameras, but they have a good chance of replacing point and shoot -class devices.
But history has shown that the short term impact of most new things tend to be over-estimated, whereas the long term impact tends to be under-estimated.
Who knows where Linux will be in 20 years? I sure as hell don't, but I have a rather optimistic view.
The program slowly dims your monitor for 10 minutes, then brightens it back to how it was. Yes, it's an April Fool's joke. Probably the only one today that actually fooled people....
Ironically, I figured it had to do just that simply by reading the description on the Macworld "review";)
But there is a grain of truth though... My by now 10-year-old Eizo 17" CRT has dimmed a bit over time. But it's still sharp enough for 1280x1023, so I'm not complaining. Then again, it was PC Magazine's monitor of the year back in 95 (if my memory serves me right), just goes to show quality is always quality.
Well, I buy about 10 CDs a month, even though I have a digital music player and I could use Napster to get my music at a lower price.
I like my physical media, and I'm willing to pay more for it.
What do CD's cost where you live? In Finland they cost between 10 and 20 Euros, so for ten it would be around 150 Euros per month. That's a huge sum of money.
Maybe CD's are cheap in some places but for me buying lots of them simply isn't an option. Hell, even when I was single and lived in my grandfather's appartment (almost for free) I couln't afford more than maybe 5 CD's a month, and some were used...
A free (as in freedom) BIOS does not mandate that the motherboard manufacturer allows it's customers to tinker with it and still retain their warranty. But those who are willing to take the risk have the option, that's what freedom is all about.
Take the Linksys WRT54G, it's Linux-based. Linksys gains from using the well tested Linux core, and the customers gain by having the option to hack it at will. Check out http://openwrt.org/ for an example of the positive results.
Think of the BIOS as the ignition to your car. You can dismantle it if you wish, why should the PC's BIOS be any different?
Baldness can be a choice. However, wearing eyeglasses in the 24th century (they'll be obsolete in 20 years, I think) is just a stupid anachronism.
Wearing glasses can be a choice as well, some people look better with them than without. Some even wear glasses with no optical properties at all. It may be vain, but it's not infeasible.
OK, seriously: If someone tells me how to watch the shows I want to when they air when I'm trying to take care of a couple of 11-month old twins... I just doesn't work. And don't try to suggest taping them, remembering to do even that is not an easy thing when you can't even eat when you want to. (Alternatively you can eat and listen to a cry-chorus;)
Downloading the same stuff just makes sense until someone provides me with a service I can pay for. I'll stop downloading when the industry can see that people are downloading because the industry refuses to provide supply for a huge demand out there. When they change I'll change.
Actually low power chips are gaining popularity in super computer environments. A major cost of operating a huge cluster is power and getting rid of all the heat.
Low power chips are therefore much cheaper to operate, and can be packed more densely as they require less cooling. The future of computing lies in massively distributed low power solutions, it simply makes much more sense than the alternatives.
far fewer acres of rainforest are actually cut down than the Greenies would have you think.
More is still being cut down than the amount that grows. I wonder how that will end?
we can fix the over fishing problems
Only if we actually change.
the coral will grow back
Only if we actually change.
and BTW.. there is an ecological balance... the planet self regulates, that is why the climate changes.
Yep... I agree. If it's OK to you that 90% of the human population dies when we run out of food and clean water due to our activities I guess it's no big deal? I mean, why prevent a problem if we can ignore it?
The sad thing is that the damage is already done. No matter how you put it we've already messed up the planet pretty bad. (Not just CO2, overfishing the oceans, killing off the corals, cutting down the rainforests etc.) Now all we really can do is try to minimize the damage ahead. In any case it's going to take hundreds of years to achieve an ecological balance, if at all possible any longer.
It's just profoundly sad that the majority of the people of this world still don't get it and still don't care. Unless we manage to change soon the collective war casualties of the world will pale in comparison to the ones of the potential ecological disaster ahead.
Personally I'm optimistic, if I weren't I would never have wanted to have kids.
You made a good point, but I sincerely hope you don't see a dog as a toy... dogs take a fair bit of dedication to take care of and train, not something I'd trust a child with. At least not a small child, anyway.
In the Finnish military (a conscription army) there have been several cases of camouflaging military vehicles so well it has taken hours or some times days to find them. Granted, camouflage is all about hiding stuff, but you wouldn't expect not to find it yourself afterwards;)
(I also know from personal experience that with a little time and care you can even camouflage a vehicle so well it'll be virtually invisible from 30 feet away... the trick is to make it look like something else. This is rather easy in a pine forest in the summer, given that there's suitable material all around.)
So why not have the people working on Hurd work on something new instead, or work on improving Linux? Competition can also hurt, by splitting up the resources into many small parts...
It's true that combining all the resources and working for The Right Thing is a good idea in theory, but one that fails in practice. The problem is that people can't seem to agree on what The Right Thing is. If they did, there would be no need for politics. For now, I see a need for both competition and politics.
(And the places that have eliminated both are usually called dictator states.)
The HURD kernel is often joked about, but I for one does hope that it will eventually become a viable alternative to the Linux kernel. Competition is seldom a bad thing, especially not among free software projects.
Because the AARP is one of the most powerful lobbying groups there is, and they fight tooth and nail against anything that even resembles competency testing.
You don't have competency testing for the elderly in the states? It's standard practice here in Finland. If the doctor says you're not fit to drive your licence is taken away. There are periodic checkups, and they are mandatory.
What SLI croud need is a simple mobo with a simple feature set, a couple of PCIex1 slots, the two full x16's, the USB, audio, double GbE & the works as offerd by the 2200, and a couple of 939-pin sockets coming from a decent mobo maker like Gigabyte that doesn't charge double for it's badge (read: ASUS, TYAN, etc.)
Please explain. The Opteron uses Socket 940. Newer Athlon 64s use Socket 939. The Athlon 64 won't work in an MP system unless some fancy hack is performed (if at all).
Does is have a native Microsoft SQL Server import feature?
The thing is, getting a plain SQL dump out of MS SQL Server isn't possible with version 2000, haven't checked since then though. I'm sure this is a deliberate thing tough...
The United States is 3rd in total internet penetration rate (68.8%), only behind Sweden(74.6%) and Hong Kong(72.5%).France, Portugal, and Estonia, aren't even in the top 25.
Those stats can't be taken seriously. I live in Finland, and of all the people I know I can only think about a handful who don't use the Internet. I'd say that's maybe one percent of all the people I know. Those people are all over 70.
Pretty much everyone in Finland handles their banking transactions (paying bills etc) solely though the Internet. Physically going to the bank is _rare_. Many people have an Internet connection just for paying bills, but they do indeed use the Internet.
(Sidenote: I've handled two cheques in my whole life, everthing here is handled electronically with inter-bank connections.)
Now, If 99% of the people I know use the Internet, and the study says 50% of the people I know don't use the Internet I'm going to go with my gut. Sure, there's a hell of a large margin of error with a sample of a single person's expecience, but I find it impossible to believe the deviation could be 49% even if my own top-of-the-head approximations are way off.
Basically the core issue is copyright. Mirroring stuff is a form of publishing, and all forms of copyright I know of requires permission from the copyright holder in order to publish their material. Do the math.
Slashdot Mirror
I have no idea how this patent mess will turn out, but it's none the less a Good Thing that they are looking into the issues possibly ahead.
Keeping my fingers crossed...
good cameras can't be combined with cell phones, the physics of photography demand a lens aperture that won't fit in a phone.
This use to be true. However, as sensors become smaller, but gain higher resolution and lower noise, the optics can be shrunken in proportion. Take a look at the examples of what the upcoming Nokia N90 can do (scroll to the bottom), for an idea of where camera phones are heading.
I'm not saying camera phones will replace professional cameras, but they have a good chance of replacing point and shoot -class devices.
I didn't read the article.
But history has shown that the short term impact of most new things tend to be over-estimated, whereas the long term impact tends to be under-estimated.
Who knows where Linux will be in 20 years? I sure as hell don't, but I have a rather optimistic view.
The program slowly dims your monitor for 10 minutes, then brightens it back to how it was. Yes, it's an April Fool's joke. Probably the only one today that actually fooled people....
;)
Ironically, I figured it had to do just that simply by reading the description on the Macworld "review"
But there is a grain of truth though... My by now 10-year-old Eizo 17" CRT has dimmed a bit over time. But it's still sharp enough for 1280x1023, so I'm not complaining. Then again, it was PC Magazine's monitor of the year back in 95 (if my memory serves me right), just goes to show quality is always quality.
a Fool of April you are.
I'll stop the Yoda nonsense now.
Well, I buy about 10 CDs a month, even though I have a digital music player and I could use Napster to get my music at a lower price.
I like my physical media, and I'm willing to pay more for it.
What do CD's cost where you live? In Finland they cost between 10 and 20 Euros, so for ten it would be around 150 Euros per month. That's a huge sum of money.
Maybe CD's are cheap in some places but for me buying lots of them simply isn't an option. Hell, even when I was single and lived in my grandfather's appartment (almost for free) I couln't afford more than maybe 5 CD's a month, and some were used...
A free (as in freedom) BIOS does not mandate that the motherboard manufacturer allows it's customers to tinker with it and still retain their warranty. But those who are willing to take the risk have the option, that's what freedom is all about.
Take the Linksys WRT54G, it's Linux-based. Linksys gains from using the well tested Linux core, and the customers gain by having the option to hack it at will. Check out http://openwrt.org/ for an example of the positive results.
Think of the BIOS as the ignition to your car. You can dismantle it if you wish, why should the PC's BIOS be any different?
Baldness can be a choice. However, wearing eyeglasses in the 24th century (they'll be obsolete in 20 years, I think) is just a stupid anachronism.
Wearing glasses can be a choice as well, some people look better with them than without. Some even wear glasses with no optical properties at all. It may be vain, but it's not infeasible.
I agree.
;)
OK, seriously: If someone tells me how to watch the shows I want to when they air when I'm trying to take care of a couple of 11-month old twins... I just doesn't work. And don't try to suggest taping them, remembering to do even that is not an easy thing when you can't even eat when you want to. (Alternatively you can eat and listen to a cry-chorus
Downloading the same stuff just makes sense until someone provides me with a service I can pay for. I'll stop downloading when the industry can see that people are downloading because the industry refuses to provide supply for a huge demand out there. When they change I'll change.
Actually low power chips are gaining popularity in super computer environments. A major cost of operating a huge cluster is power and getting rid of all the heat.
Low power chips are therefore much cheaper to operate, and can be packed more densely as they require less cooling. The future of computing lies in massively distributed low power solutions, it simply makes much more sense than the alternatives.
far fewer acres of rainforest are actually cut down than the Greenies would have you think.
More is still being cut down than the amount that grows. I wonder how that will end?
we can fix the over fishing problems
Only if we actually change.
the coral will grow back
Only if we actually change.
and BTW.. there is an ecological balance... the planet self regulates, that is why the climate changes.
Yep... I agree. If it's OK to you that 90% of the human population dies when we run out of food and clean water due to our activities I guess it's no big deal? I mean, why prevent a problem if we can ignore it?
The sad thing is that the damage is already done. No matter how you put it we've already messed up the planet pretty bad. (Not just CO2, overfishing the oceans, killing off the corals, cutting down the rainforests etc.) Now all we really can do is try to minimize the damage ahead. In any case it's going to take hundreds of years to achieve an ecological balance, if at all possible any longer.
It's just profoundly sad that the majority of the people of this world still don't get it and still don't care. Unless we manage to change soon the collective war casualties of the world will pale in comparison to the ones of the potential ecological disaster ahead.
Personally I'm optimistic, if I weren't I would never have wanted to have kids.
You made a good point, but I sincerely hope you don't see a dog as a toy... dogs take a fair bit of dedication to take care of and train, not something I'd trust a child with. At least not a small child, anyway.
This is off topic, but what the hell...
;)
In the Finnish military (a conscription army) there have been several cases of camouflaging military vehicles so well it has taken hours or some times days to find them. Granted, camouflage is all about hiding stuff, but you wouldn't expect not to find it yourself afterwards
(I also know from personal experience that with a little time and care you can even camouflage a vehicle so well it'll be virtually invisible from 30 feet away... the trick is to make it look like something else. This is rather easy in a pine forest in the summer, given that there's suitable material all around.)
So why not have the people working on Hurd work on something new instead, or work on improving Linux? Competition can also hurt, by splitting up the resources into many small parts ...
It's true that combining all the resources and working for The Right Thing is a good idea in theory, but one that fails in practice. The problem is that people can't seem to agree on what The Right Thing is. If they did, there would be no need for politics. For now, I see a need for both competition and politics.
(And the places that have eliminated both are usually called dictator states.)
The HURD kernel is often joked about, but I for one does hope that it will eventually become a viable alternative to the Linux kernel. Competition is seldom a bad thing, especially not among free software projects.
Because the AARP is one of the most powerful lobbying groups there is, and they fight tooth and nail against anything that even resembles competency testing.
You don't have competency testing for the elderly in the states? It's standard practice here in Finland. If the doctor says you're not fit to drive your licence is taken away. There are periodic checkups, and they are mandatory.
What SLI croud need is a simple mobo with a simple feature set, a couple of PCIex1 slots, the two full x16's, the USB, audio, double GbE & the works as offerd by the 2200, and a couple of 939-pin sockets coming from a decent mobo maker like Gigabyte that doesn't charge double for it's badge (read: ASUS, TYAN, etc.)
Please explain. The Opteron uses Socket 940. Newer Athlon 64s use Socket 939. The Athlon 64 won't work in an MP system unless some fancy hack is performed (if at all).
What exactly are you aiming for here?
Using DirectX to create a horribly non-standard and ugly interface? Meh, it's been done before.
RTFA. DirectX is also used to render video effects in real time. That's innovation, despite the fact that the interface may well be sub-optimal.
Such things exist, and people are using them as well:
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/foot.htm
Remove the foot.htm bit for the whole site, it uses frames.
Have you never used enterprise manager?
I know that at least for v7 and 2000 you can get an SQL dump from it with little hassels.
You can dump the table structure as an SQL dump, but not the data.
.. but the key issue on Windows is:
Does is have a native Microsoft SQL Server import feature?
The thing is, getting a plain SQL dump out of MS SQL Server isn't possible with version 2000, haven't checked since then though. I'm sure this is a deliberate thing tough...
Well duh... I guess I should have included a </weak_attempt_at_humor>-tag.
;)
You made the critical mistake of assuming that Slashdot Mods actually know *nix properly, that's all
What a crock of propaganda.
The United States is 3rd in total internet penetration rate (68.8%), only behind Sweden(74.6%) and Hong Kong(72.5%).France, Portugal, and Estonia, aren't even in the top 25.
Those stats can't be taken seriously. I live in Finland, and of all the people I know I can only think about a handful who don't use the Internet. I'd say that's maybe one percent of all the people I know. Those people are all over 70.
Pretty much everyone in Finland handles their banking transactions (paying bills etc) solely though the Internet. Physically going to the bank is _rare_. Many people have an Internet connection just for paying bills, but they do indeed use the Internet.
(Sidenote: I've handled two cheques in my whole life, everthing here is handled electronically with inter-bank connections.)
Now, If 99% of the people I know use the Internet, and the study says 50% of the people I know don't use the Internet I'm going to go with my gut. Sure, there's a hell of a large margin of error with a sample of a single person's expecience, but I find it impossible to believe the deviation could be 49% even if my own top-of-the-head approximations are way off.
The idea is good, but it's not as simple an issue as it might seem at first glance. As pointed out in a sibling post it's in the FAQ: Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!
Basically the core issue is copyright. Mirroring stuff is a form of publishing, and all forms of copyright I know of requires permission from the copyright holder in order to publish their material. Do the math.