But you can't see the subhierarchies so you can't tell which blank area to click on to bring the view over the rec.photo, for instance, so you have to keep trying until you find the right one.
Like I said, a toy.
And it doesn't do a good job with web sites because web sites are an interconnected "web" (hey, amazing how that works) rather than a strict heirarchy.
What do you think takes the film and turns it into digits in a Lightning recorder, magic pixies? There is definitely CCDs involved. *You* pay attention.
According to the ABC News article, the colour sucks on this system:
"During a demonstration at ShoWest, with film and digital scenes projected side-by-side on a big screen, the only problem with digital appeared to be color, with whites taking on a yellow hue, blues becoming purplish, and skin tones giving actresses a manequin-like complexion."
You make all these general assumptions about what digital is and isn't capable of. Have you actually worked with Kodak's DXR (?) digital format, where colour is logorithmic, so it responds very much like film does? Did you see Kodak's Lightning scanners and recorders? Remember that Kodak is a film company, and has a lot of film scientists who working on these digital products to make sure that they were right. Too bad Kodak threw it all in the trash.
I used to work on a very cool, very useful, and very expensive digital post production product from a company whose main business is regular film. They started the project with the hopes of becoming market leaders in the new post-film era, and were very nearly there. But short sighted bean counters decided that digital isn't profitable *today*, and film is, so they axed the digital stuff. In 5 or so years, when movies are recorded on digital cameras, all editing is done digitally, and the final product is beamed to digital projectors in theatres, those bean counters are probably going to be safely retired or on to ruining another company.
For those who say that digital is too pixelatted and doesn't map colours right, I say "feh!". Our product stored images at 4096x3072, with ten bits of LOGARITHMIC colour per plane. We make scanners and recorders to move film to digits and digits to film with that sort of quality. I defy you to tell the difference between film and that sort of digital. Chances are, you've already seen a lot of film that went through that process somewhere along the way.
But look carefully at that entry for the Dual Pentium IIs, and you'll see that the total cost of the system is listed at $12,000. Either that is one KICK ASS system, or more likely it's a Beowulf cluster of dual P-IIs, and they forgot to mention how many CPUs were involved.
More importantly, how many times are we going to see THE SAME DAMN CAR MP3 PLAYER FOR LINUX? I think empeg.com has been on Slashdot at least twice before this.
I'm designing a project right now that will be free at first, but eventually hope to have a "for pay" component. When it does, I'll want shopping cart technology. When that day comes, I'll start looking for open source software first.
Back when HP and Apollo merged, I said "you can't tie two anchors together and make a boat". I was partially wrong then, but it looks like I'm right now.
I was getting some updates last night from my favourite local mirror when I saw this directory there. So stop hammering updates.redhat.com and get thee to thy local mirror!
I think a better approach would be to provide the opportunities (like have a machine available, and maybe some good tools), and let the kid decide for him/herself whether s/he wants to become a programmer? Give the kid time to be a kid, and time to find out what s/he likes and dislikes.
My step-daughter is 13, and not at all interested in programming, but through her own interested decided she wants to build some web pages. Now she's reading up about Javascript and doing image maps and all sort of stuff. I hope this leads to an interest in technology because she's smart and could be a good engineer/programmer/whatever, but if it doesn't I'm not going to push her.
The IBM microdisk thing got me wondering. They say it's a "CF-II", but I can't find any information about CF-II on the Compact Flash web site. Does anybody know if I can put one of these things in my camera, which takes regular CF?
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But you can't see the subhierarchies so you can't tell which blank area to click on to bring the view over the rec.photo, for instance, so you have to keep trying until you find the right one.
Like I said, a toy.
And it doesn't do a good job with web sites because web sites are an interconnected "web" (hey, amazing how that works) rather than a strict heirarchy.
I navigate to "rec", and then I can't see any of the subhierarchies of rec - they all end up off the screen.
This hyperbolic thing is fun and nifty, but I don't see it as being very useful at all.
After that, we'll get 9 women to produce a child in 1 month.
Where can I get one of those t-shirts?
What do you think takes the film and turns it into digits in a Lightning recorder, magic pixies? There is definitely CCDs involved. *You* pay attention.
According to the ABC News article, the colour sucks on this system:
"During a demonstration at ShoWest, with film and digital scenes projected side-by-side on a big screen, the only problem with digital appeared to
be color, with whites taking on a yellow hue, blues becoming purplish, and skin tones giving actresses a manequin-like complexion."
You make all these general assumptions about what digital is and isn't capable of. Have you actually worked with Kodak's DXR (?) digital format, where colour is logorithmic, so it responds very much like film does? Did you see Kodak's Lightning scanners and recorders? Remember that Kodak is a film company, and has a lot of film scientists who working on these digital products to make sure that they were right. Too bad Kodak threw it all in the trash.
It's Kodak's own damn fault that they are abandoning digital just when it's on the verge of taking off.
I used to work on a very cool, very useful, and very expensive digital post production product from a company whose main business is regular film. They started the project with the hopes of becoming market leaders in the new post-film era, and were very nearly there. But short sighted bean counters decided that digital isn't profitable *today*, and film is, so they axed the digital stuff. In 5 or so years, when movies are recorded on digital cameras, all editing is done digitally, and the final product is beamed to digital projectors in theatres, those bean counters are probably going to be safely retired or on to ruining another company.
For those who say that digital is too pixelatted and doesn't map colours right, I say "feh!". Our product stored images at 4096x3072, with ten bits of LOGARITHMIC colour per plane. We make scanners and recorders to move film to digits and digits to film with that sort of quality. I defy you to tell the difference between film and that sort of digital. Chances are, you've already seen a lot of film that went through that process somewhere along the way.
When you change your "signature", it changes retroactively! That's bizarre.
But look carefully at that entry for the Dual Pentium IIs, and you'll see that the total cost of the system is listed at $12,000. Either that is one KICK ASS system, or more likely it's a Beowulf cluster of dual P-IIs, and they forgot to mention how many CPUs were involved.
More importantly, how many times are we going to see THE SAME DAMN CAR MP3 PLAYER FOR LINUX? I think empeg.com has been on Slashdot at least twice before this.
I'm designing a project right now that will be free at first, but eventually hope to have a "for pay" component. When it does, I'll want shopping cart technology. When that day comes, I'll start looking for open source software first.
Are they going to split back into HP and Apollo?
Back when HP and Apollo merged, I said "you can't tie two anchors together and make a boat". I was partially wrong then, but it looks like I'm right now.
I would have thought Sierra would be rollling in cash after the success of Half Life.
How many revolutions per minute do you have to do to be considered "spinning"? I do one slow one every day for the last 20 years - does that count?
Steve Jobs has been CEO of some Mickey Mouse companies before, but this takes the cake!
I was getting some updates last night from my favourite local mirror when I saw this directory there. So stop hammering updates.redhat.com and get thee to thy local mirror!
Why is this on slashdot?
They rewrote the Titanic page to stop trying to strongly hint that it was Digital Unix on the renderfarm!
Yeah, maybe we'd actually get some porn with good looking women, instead of the usual revenge of the plastic balloon-boobed blonde bimbos.
"It must be silicon, 'cause flesh don't refuse to shake like that"
The comp.lang.java.programmer faq, located here answers that question. And hundreds of other questions.
I think a better approach would be to provide the opportunities (like have a machine available, and maybe some good tools), and let the kid decide for him/herself whether s/he wants to become a programmer? Give the kid time to be a kid, and time to find out what s/he likes and dislikes.
My step-daughter is 13, and not at all interested in programming, but through her own interested decided she wants to build some web pages. Now she's reading up about Javascript and doing image maps and all sort of stuff. I hope this leads to an interest in technology because she's smart and could be a good engineer/programmer/whatever, but if it doesn't I'm not going to push her.
What I want is a hat (or t-shirt) with the X windows logo. And on the t-shirt, you could put on the back:
/usr/include/X11/X.h
/usr/X11R6/bin/X
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
The X files:
etc.
The IBM microdisk thing got me wondering. They say it's a "CF-II", but I can't find any information about CF-II on the Compact Flash web site. Does anybody know if I can put one of these things in my camera, which takes regular CF?