Seriously, why would they not have completely removed the code or made it buggy on purpose just to protect themselves? Owners of this camera can rejoice this time but I am sure that next time Canon won't make the same mistake...
Canon's goal is making the 300D was to get DSLR into the hands of the consumer. One of the ways they did that was they saved money by reusing as much of the 10D design as they could, saving money when and where they could - for example the 300D has a plastic body compared to the 10D's metal, it has a smaller buffer, etc.
Now there are good reasons for Canon to have done what they did. For example, any serious photographer is aware of the compromises of ISO 3200. Canon simply didn't want to take the risk that someone who didn't would use it then complain about the result, so they disabled it. Cheaper than rewriting the software, and the object of the 300D is to save money.
As to whether this will cost them sales of the 10D, I very much doubt it. A camera is a complete system. I tried a 300D for a while, but then I sold it and kept my old D30. Why? Because if you're an EOS user, you'll be used to the thumbwheel on the back, and no software hack can add that to the 300D!
Would this be the same local phone company which provides the ADSL link this would require?
Well, it depends. You don't need an ADSL line at every node, just 1 in 4 (or something like that). So, maybe the economics are that you don't need ADSL at all, maybe you can do this with regular leased lines, depending on how you recover the costs from the end users. How much is a fractional T1 these days? A "community" scheme certainly needs ADSL; a WISP/VoIP company might not.
All too often they create bizzarre strings of terms just to make a silly acronym
I named a couple of my projects "Asynchronous Replication System (Experimental)" and "Parallel Implementation for Maximum Performance" but both were caught by my manager before a customer saw them!
After the war, most of the machines were scrapped to protect their sophisticated secrets.
If the British Government hadn't been so short-sighted, the UK now would be the centre of the global computer industry. Aye, but they threw away aerospace too. Always, Britain invents, loses interest, and the rest of the world reaps the spoils.
criticism that does not provide a solution is still valid criticism.
While this is true...
who in their right mind would place our entire future on a technology that has zero tolerance for failure?
... you just threw away your argument with this sentence. Nuclear power does not have "zero tolerance for failure". The one noteworthy nuclear accident was Chernobyl, and that was caused by deliberate operator action, not a flaw in the technology, and even then, if there was "zero tolerance" we'd all be dead now; in fact history shows that there is quite a lot of tolerance.
Bruce is employing here a classic Usenet defence. Translated it means "oh shit, I've just realized that I've demonstrated myself to be an idiot, please disregard that evidence and continue to take what I say seriously".
Generally I find that the pro-nuclear power people have arguments backed by hard facts, whether physics or history, and the anti-nuclear power people have nothing but hysterical ranting. It's also no coincidence that anti-nuclear beliefs coincide with all sorts of generally anti-power-generation belief*; the objective of such people is to destroy modern economies, "environmentalism" is just a facade.
* Pro-wind or -solar for all but niche applications is effectively anti-power.
Couldn't agree more. I can't speak for the performance of the new netbeans, but unless it is 5x faster than previous eclipse wins hands down.
Couldn't agree more. Sun's Java IDE all the way from Forte onwards has been unusable as far as I'm concerned. Ugly and counterintuitive interface, slow as hell, and it can't even roundtrip code properly - it has to embed peculiar comments so it can keep track. Oracle JDeveloper gets my vote. I did try eclipse but I could never get it to work reliably with VSS so I went back to JDeveloper and just used the regular VSS client.
Anyone know why MySQL as opposed to a more standards-compliant db like PG?
I'm guessing it's for buzzword-compliance. It wouldn't be much work for them to support, since it's so simple, and they just want to tick the "open source database" box. But the sort of people who buy HP-UX kit are more likely to want to run something like SAP/DB, an open source database that is truly industrial-grade, or PostgreSQL as you say.
The thing you have to remember about Microsoft is that it, like almost any large company, is not monolithic.
Another characteristic of large companies is that we can do things in 3 months that we cannot do in a year, or two years or five years. Getting things done without a sense of urgency driven from a very senior level is next to impossible, there are so many people involved, each of whom has their own priorities, which may or may not be aligned with the priorities of the organization as a whole. Companies are composed really of three groups: there are the people who do what the company does to make money (the business), the people who support the business, and the management who run the company but don't directly make money.
In general, we want to upgrade. Not at an unreasonable pace, mind, but there are a bunch of reasons to. Developers both want to use new platform features, and keep their skillsets up to date. Sysadmins want to see incremental improvements in reliability and manageability (and keep their skills up to date). IT managers want to deliver to the business the capabilities offered by new software, and to keep their developers and sysadmins happy.
When Microsoft (or Sun or Oracle) announces that in a year's time, a certain version is going to be obsolete, we can plan a nice orderly migration. We can get everyone up to speed with the new tools and so on. We can explain to the management why we need to spend X dollars on upgrading everything, and why we expect to save Y dollars going forward, and we can get the business to back us up. I'm not even talking about reducing staffing levels, I mean that if a new version of the software performs better, that cuts the cost of the hardware we need to buy to run it on (for example).
When they change their minds, it plays merry hell with our planning, and it leaves us stranded on old versions. Senior management sees no urgency, and everyone on the periphery of the process just sees it as unnecessary work. Meanwhile the business aren't getting the new functionality, the IT staff are frustrated, then vendors aren't getting paid... no-one's really a winner, even the senior managers, who might've saved a (relatively) small amount of money, but at the cost of annoying people and making the inevitable more work when it does come along. I know people (not us, thankfully) who're probably going to have to jump from Solaris 2.6 to 10 and from Oracle 8 to 10 in one go - ouch.
but from recent news stories out of the UK, anyone who successfully defends himself against an armed criminal in the UK will face stiffer penalties than the criminal.
That's correct. If you successfully defend yourself against a criminal, the police will actively help that criminal press assault charges against you. Worse, every time we experiment with arming the police, it makes no difference at all to crime figures, but a lot of innocent bystanders get gunned down. Frankly, it's hard to decide who's the bigger threat, criminals or trigger-happy cops.
We don't really have what an American would recognize as a police force anymore. What we have are paramilitary social workers. They'll do everything they possibly can to help the criminal and blame everything on the victim or on "society". But that's what you get if you elect a Socialist government (don't blame me I vote for the Independence Party!).
But they have taken all my money for three years and pulled me up the day before I finished. If they had pulled me up with my first essay at the beginning and warned me of the problems and consequences, it would be fair enough.
But this is an English university. It doesn't make any money from tuition fees; in fact it'll barely break even. Universities here (generally) don't have endowments, they're funded by the taxpayer. The university had absolutely no motivation to "steal" his money.
Oh, and to put this into perspective, MIT charges something like USD 30,000/year tuition. An English university is allowed by law to charge no more than GBP 3,000, and that's only because the limit was recently raised. We aren't talking a huge pile of cash here.
I'm a Marine, and I learned in the Corps to do whatever it takes to get ahead. If I was in the same position again I would do it again." Now, I've never been in the armed services, but I can't imagine the USMC is teaching him to cheat in school.
Absolutely not - all the academies prize their Honor Codes above anything, it paraphrases to "I will not lie, cheat or steal and I will not tolerate those that do".
He's awfully "nationalistic" for China for someone who is living in Australia of all places.
Nothing unusual there. We have this dude in England now, Abu Hamza's his name. Won't stop talking about how great Islam is. 'Course, he's in England 'cos if he ever sets foot in a Moslem country he'll be arrested and probably executed...
According to the second document licence fee revenue is 2,659million pounds.
Put it this way: the BBC has a budget comparable to the Royal Navy and it's accountable to pretty much nobody.
If the BBC were half as important as it claims to be, it could manage very well without this massive subsidy - even with that massive advantage, Reuters still beats it on news every time, viewers prefer American sitcoms and movies, etc etc. It's high time the archaic TV tax was scrapped.
Theres reams of the stuff, including almost an entire edition of Scientific American
Yeah, I heard about that. He asked for space to defend himself; they offered him half a paragraph. Environmentalism is a multi-billion-dollar industry, lots of people have a vested interest in it. Lomborg threatens all that.
In this movie, millions of worlds poorest and most vulnerable die horribly when the economic systems that keep them alive are disrupted by Ivory tower plans of the world's frivileged elite.
That's pretty much what happened in China. The Communist government of Mao needed to increase crop yields, so it ordered every farmer to plant seeds only a third of the distance apart that they normally did. What happened of course is that none of the plants could get enough nutrients from the soil to mature, and tens of millions starved. However, no Communist party officials starved, and were free to try a new plan the following season.
I've ready many column inches that say the same thing. Funny, tho', they all attack Lomborg as a person, no-one has yet said anything like "your model is valid but this particular premise is wrong" or "here's where you made an error in a calculation" or "that reference you cite actually says something else".
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Marking up the same hardware and because you don't have artifical barriers on it should be a crime...
No-one who'd actually seen the 300D and 10D would mistake them for the same hardware!
Seriously, why would they not have completely removed the code or made it buggy on purpose just to protect themselves? Owners of this camera can rejoice this time but I am sure that next time Canon won't make the same mistake...
Canon's goal is making the 300D was to get DSLR into the hands of the consumer. One of the ways they did that was they saved money by reusing as much of the 10D design as they could, saving money when and where they could - for example the 300D has a plastic body compared to the 10D's metal, it has a smaller buffer, etc.
Now there are good reasons for Canon to have done what they did. For example, any serious photographer is aware of the compromises of ISO 3200. Canon simply didn't want to take the risk that someone who didn't would use it then complain about the result, so they disabled it. Cheaper than rewriting the software, and the object of the 300D is to save money.
As to whether this will cost them sales of the 10D, I very much doubt it. A camera is a complete system. I tried a 300D for a while, but then I sold it and kept my old D30. Why? Because if you're an EOS user, you'll be used to the thumbwheel on the back, and no software hack can add that to the 300D!
Would this be the same local phone company which provides the ADSL link this would require?
Well, it depends. You don't need an ADSL line at every node, just 1 in 4 (or something like that). So, maybe the economics are that you don't need ADSL at all, maybe you can do this with regular leased lines, depending on how you recover the costs from the end users. How much is a fractional T1 these days? A "community" scheme certainly needs ADSL; a WISP/VoIP company might not.
All too often they create bizzarre strings of terms just to make a silly acronym
I named a couple of my projects "Asynchronous Replication System (Experimental)" and "Parallel Implementation for Maximum Performance" but both were caught by my manager before a customer saw them!
"uh-huh, but that's what you said last time".
Last time? As in, the time before what exactly?
... or just classic misdirection of a discussion to argue the absurd
Not quite. The second example you give demonstrates a "least worst" option; the former doesn't even acknowledge that the concept of compromise exists.
Noting this will enable you to easily destroy most of Chomsky's arguments also.
While this is true...
who in their right mind would place our entire future on a technology that has zero tolerance for failure?
If you can't take a joke, take a hike!
Bruce is employing here a classic Usenet defence. Translated it means "oh shit, I've just realized that I've demonstrated myself to be an idiot, please disregard that evidence and continue to take what I say seriously".
Generally I find that the pro-nuclear power people have arguments backed by hard facts, whether physics or history, and the anti-nuclear power people have nothing but hysterical ranting. It's also no coincidence that anti-nuclear beliefs coincide with all sorts of generally anti-power-generation belief*; the objective of such people is to destroy modern economies, "environmentalism" is just a facade.
* Pro-wind or -solar for all but niche applications is effectively anti-power.
Couldn't agree more. I can't speak for the performance of the new netbeans, but unless it is 5x faster than previous eclipse wins hands down.
Couldn't agree more. Sun's Java IDE all the way from Forte onwards has been unusable as far as I'm concerned. Ugly and counterintuitive interface, slow as hell, and it can't even roundtrip code properly - it has to embed peculiar comments so it can keep track. Oracle JDeveloper gets my vote. I did try eclipse but I could never get it to work reliably with VSS so I went back to JDeveloper and just used the regular VSS client.
Anyone know why MySQL as opposed to a more standards-compliant db like PG?
I'm guessing it's for buzzword-compliance. It wouldn't be much work for them to support, since it's so simple, and they just want to tick the "open source database" box. But the sort of people who buy HP-UX kit are more likely to want to run something like SAP/DB, an open source database that is truly industrial-grade, or PostgreSQL as you say.
The thing you have to remember about Microsoft is that it, like almost any large company, is not monolithic.
Another characteristic of large companies is that we can do things in 3 months that we cannot do in a year, or two years or five years. Getting things done without a sense of urgency driven from a very senior level is next to impossible, there are so many people involved, each of whom has their own priorities, which may or may not be aligned with the priorities of the organization as a whole. Companies are composed really of three groups: there are the people who do what the company does to make money (the business), the people who support the business, and the management who run the company but don't directly make money.
In general, we want to upgrade. Not at an unreasonable pace, mind, but there are a bunch of reasons to. Developers both want to use new platform features, and keep their skillsets up to date. Sysadmins want to see incremental improvements in reliability and manageability (and keep their skills up to date). IT managers want to deliver to the business the capabilities offered by new software, and to keep their developers and sysadmins happy.
When Microsoft (or Sun or Oracle) announces that in a year's time, a certain version is going to be obsolete, we can plan a nice orderly migration. We can get everyone up to speed with the new tools and so on. We can explain to the management why we need to spend X dollars on upgrading everything, and why we expect to save Y dollars going forward, and we can get the business to back us up. I'm not even talking about reducing staffing levels, I mean that if a new version of the software performs better, that cuts the cost of the hardware we need to buy to run it on (for example).
When they change their minds, it plays merry hell with our planning, and it leaves us stranded on old versions. Senior management sees no urgency, and everyone on the periphery of the process just sees it as unnecessary work. Meanwhile the business aren't getting the new functionality, the IT staff are frustrated, then vendors aren't getting paid... no-one's really a winner, even the senior managers, who might've saved a (relatively) small amount of money, but at the cost of annoying people and making the inevitable more work when it does come along. I know people (not us, thankfully) who're probably going to have to jump from Solaris 2.6 to 10 and from Oracle 8 to 10 in one go - ouch.
but from recent news stories out of the UK, anyone who successfully defends himself against an armed criminal in the UK will face stiffer penalties than the criminal.
That's correct. If you successfully defend yourself against a criminal, the police will actively help that criminal press assault charges against you. Worse, every time we experiment with arming the police, it makes no difference at all to crime figures, but a lot of innocent bystanders get gunned down. Frankly, it's hard to decide who's the bigger threat, criminals or trigger-happy cops.
We don't really have what an American would recognize as a police force anymore. What we have are paramilitary social workers. They'll do everything they possibly can to help the criminal and blame everything on the victim or on "society". But that's what you get if you elect a Socialist government (don't blame me I vote for the Independence Party!).
But they have taken all my money for three years and pulled me up the day before I finished. If they had pulled me up with my first essay at the beginning and warned me of the problems and consequences, it would be fair enough.
But this is an English university. It doesn't make any money from tuition fees; in fact it'll barely break even. Universities here (generally) don't have endowments, they're funded by the taxpayer. The university had absolutely no motivation to "steal" his money.
Oh, and to put this into perspective, MIT charges something like USD 30,000/year tuition. An English university is allowed by law to charge no more than GBP 3,000, and that's only because the limit was recently raised. We aren't talking a huge pile of cash here.
I'm a Marine, and I learned in the Corps to do whatever it takes to get ahead. If I was in the same position again I would do it again." Now, I've never been in the armed services, but I can't imagine the USMC is teaching him to cheat in school.
Absolutely not - all the academies prize their Honor Codes above anything, it paraphrases to "I will not lie, cheat or steal and I will not tolerate those that do".
He's awfully "nationalistic" for China for someone who is living in Australia of all places.
Nothing unusual there. We have this dude in England now, Abu Hamza's his name. Won't stop talking about how great Islam is. 'Course, he's in England 'cos if he ever sets foot in a Moslem country he'll be arrested and probably executed...
You may have heard of a small country in the Middle East, goes by the name of Iraq...
Thankyou for pointing out that in 1991 we went to war with Iraq over its taking over of Kuwait...
What do you call deep frying?
:-)
We don't even go that deep!
haven't bother to check has IE included that option yet
Allegedly it will be in XP SP2, released in the summer.
You mean to tell me that Brits don't use the word "broil"?
What you call broiling we call grilling. What you call grilling we call frying. What you call frying we call deep frying.
According to the second document licence fee revenue is 2,659million pounds.
Put it this way: the BBC has a budget comparable to the Royal Navy and it's accountable to pretty much nobody.
If the BBC were half as important as it claims to be, it could manage very well without this massive subsidy - even with that massive advantage, Reuters still beats it on news every time, viewers prefer American sitcoms and movies, etc etc. It's high time the archaic TV tax was scrapped.
Theres reams of the stuff, including almost an entire edition of Scientific American
Yeah, I heard about that. He asked for space to defend himself; they offered him half a paragraph. Environmentalism is a multi-billion-dollar industry, lots of people have a vested interest in it. Lomborg threatens all that.
In this movie, millions of worlds poorest and most vulnerable die horribly when the economic systems that keep them alive are disrupted by Ivory tower plans of the world's frivileged elite.
That's pretty much what happened in China. The Communist government of Mao needed to increase crop yields, so it ordered every farmer to plant seeds only a third of the distance apart that they normally did. What happened of course is that none of the plants could get enough nutrients from the soil to mature, and tens of millions starved. However, no Communist party officials starved, and were free to try a new plan the following season.
Lomborg is a kook.
I've ready many column inches that say the same thing. Funny, tho', they all attack Lomborg as a person, no-one has yet said anything like "your model is valid but this particular premise is wrong" or "here's where you made an error in a calculation" or "that reference you cite actually says something else".
The big advantage is that with Linux all developers have access to the source.
But surely all Oracle developers had access to the Oracle source previously?