What about those of us that are nowhere near a Costco?
There must be lots of online services? Why would you need to visit a physical store? Even in a small country where I live there are 3-4 online photo printing services.
Actually, in a different world (Norway, actually), the tax people are obliged by law to calculate your tax in the way which result in the lowest tax for the taxpayer (based on the numbers they have been given, of course). That of course include all deductions you are entitled to. No tricks.
Also, most institutions deliver the numbers in electronic format to the tax office so that we get a filled in form with the numbers and an estimated tax which we can use as a starting point for the tax return. For a fair number of taxpayers the pre-filled in form contain the correct numbers.
So when my wife is browsing the net form her iPad and my daughter is downloading to her smartphone through the WiFi, and my son connects his Nintendo 3DS to the network, exactly how are they going to replace this with UTP?
I have 3 (stationary) PCs and my TVs connected on UTP, but more and more devices are just not suitable for it. And there are just so many. Between us, the family now have close to 20 network capable devices (everything from DSis and iPods to PCs and TV decoders). Cabling for all of that would make the house look like a bowl of spaghetti. Not really a realistic option for most people, is it?
I very much doubt that you ran Windows 3.0 on a PC/XT. Closing a dialog box took 20 seconds to a minute. Really.
Windows 3.0 was usable on an PC/AT (80286), and I used that for a few years, but no version of Windows was usable on a PC/XT.
The 8088 may be in the grey area between 8 and 16 bit, but I have to agree that it is more a 16 bit than an 8 bit processor. I was a bit confused by the statement that Windows 1.0 required an 8086, which it did not.
I have actually installed and used (well...) Windows 1.0 on a standard IBM PC/XT which uses an 8088.
It was useless, but it (sort of) worked.
It was quicker than the reported speed of Ubuntu on 8 bit (closing a OK/Cancel dialog box only took like 20 seconds), but it was still painful even as a test.
How is it different from Slashdot, Google, Facebook, Youtube, etc?
Not much. But I would not pay for the stuff I post, so I have no expectation of other paying for it either. Neither would I pay to read/.
The fact that some people may make a profit out of it does not bother me. I get to have some fun and occasionally read some interesting stuff.
If whoever owns/. were to sell it for a gazillion of dollars and I was annoyed by that, I would simply stop posting/moderating. That would teach them a lesson!...or maybe not.
...or even news to you, then you have not been paying attention.
And it is not just in line with the Chine government general attitude towards the internet. It is in line with their general attitude towards any public exchange of information. Internet did not change the attitude, it just made it more difficult to enforce.
Now, start looking for some of the same attitude elsewhere. Lots of people want to control information and define the truth. It is just that the Chinese are more obvious about it and more successful than most.
This sounds just like the music and movie business when they were trying to resist the changes in technology instead of embracing it. We know how that worked out. Maybe the telecom people should start reading the news?
If you want to unseat the dominant market player, you have to not just be better than them, but be a lot better.
Or you just change the market. Linux is not popular in the traditional PC market, but where it succeeds is in new markets.
If you look back, beating the major player sometimes involved changing the market.
Digital Equipment Corporation could not beat IBM on the mainframe, so they created the minicomputer.
SUN was successful because they initially just put together standard equipment while the competition were still busy designing proprietary hardware.
Now, is there a media player out there that does not run Linux? Even my TV runs Linux!
So basically it is all around us in places which either did not exist, or did not need an OS. But Linux will never dominate the desktop. So what?
I can hear the difference listening to Dave Brubeck on original vinyl vs. modern CD.
That is because the mastering is different. It is a well known fact that during the times when several media were on sale, there were different masterings for cassette/Vinyl/CD.
Resiiues of older tracks on CD are allways remastered. That change is clearly audible.
Of course, pressing the same master on to vinyl will also change the sound, as there are more sound changing steps involved between you and the master.
The values i a Netflix subscription is just too small for a normal person to engage in a lawsuit. Even a class action suit would be off little value (look at history - only lawyers get any real money out of it). The real power for the subscribers is to stop the subscription. And you do not need to sue or go to arbitration over that.
And of course, if they give bad service it is far more efficient to slashdot them over it than to sue anyway.
The naming scheme depends on your company.
If you are a small shop with a few servers and one or two sysadmins, it really does not matter.
Once you go beyond one physical site you need to include an identifier for what site the server is on.
And the more people you have managing the servers, the more you need a standard. Because it is not YOUR server anymore.
And the more servers, the more you need a scalable naming system (which mean numbers somewhere)
One factor to take into account is when you list your servers, what is the primary way you want to sort them? For our company (with 500+ sites) it is the site they are on, so the first parameter is the site. If you are a single site shop, then it is probably function. Do whatever fits the way you work.
And then there is another factor: If your servers are called Mickey Mouse and Frodo, there is a risk that management will not perceive the IT people as the most serious bunch, and they will treat you according to their perception. If you present a well structured system, then there is a good chance that you will be taken more seriously when you deal with management.
but one of the reasons for making back up cameras mandatory
is that really people literally cannot turn around far enough to look over their shoulder while backing up.
Also take into account that it seems that more and more cars have smaller rear windows. Especially in the small to medium segment.
Of course you are mandated to fix it. But why should it cost several grand to fix it? The parts cost close to nothing, so it would cost more or less the same as fixing any broken feature on the car.
... and on the camera house it says NIKON. So they produced a digital back end for a Nikon camera (I once had a print from a picture taken by it. The noise level was nothing short of amazing...). Which may explain why Nikon is still big in cameras, while Kodak is not.
The problem is that although they invented digital cameras, their expertise as a company was not in cameras and electronics, but in manufacturing film, which is mainly chemistry. Kodak were never a big company in cameras (proven by the fact that the high end model they had was just a digital back end for a conventional SLR from one of the main manufacturers, I cannot remember if it was Nikon or Canon). Nikon and Canon were camera manufacturers. They adapted to the digital technology, because they had (and have) their expertise in cameras. Kodak's main expertise is in the very single part of a camera that is not needed anymore, the film. So whole Canon and Nikon had to adapt (they had already started to put electronics in their camera) by replacing the film mechanics with a CCD and some electronics, Kodak would have needed to change the company to a completely different business. Not so simple. They tried, but the change was apparently too big to be possible.
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What about those of us that are nowhere near a Costco?
There must be lots of online services? Why would you need to visit a physical store? Even in a small country where I live there are 3-4 online photo printing services.
FFS their Jan/Feb 2012 issue was of Lindsey Lohan, photoshopped to hell and back.
And I thought photoshopping was used to to improve pictures...
Actually, in a different world (Norway, actually), the tax people are obliged by law to calculate your tax in the way which result in the lowest tax for the taxpayer (based on the numbers they have been given, of course). That of course include all deductions you are entitled to. No tricks.
Also, most institutions deliver the numbers in electronic format to the tax office so that we get a filled in form with the numbers and an estimated tax which we can use as a starting point for the tax return. For a fair number of taxpayers the pre-filled in form contain the correct numbers.
So when my wife is browsing the net form her iPad and my daughter is downloading to her smartphone through the WiFi, and my son connects his Nintendo 3DS to the network, exactly how are they going to replace this with UTP?
I have 3 (stationary) PCs and my TVs connected on UTP, but more and more devices are just not suitable for it. And there are just so many. Between us, the family now have close to 20 network capable devices (everything from DSis and iPods to PCs and TV decoders). Cabling for all of that would make the house look like a bowl of spaghetti. Not really a realistic option for most people, is it?
I very much doubt that you ran Windows 3.0 on a PC/XT. Closing a dialog box took 20 seconds to a minute. Really.
Windows 3.0 was usable on an PC/AT (80286), and I used that for a few years, but no version of Windows was usable on a PC/XT.
The 8088 may be in the grey area between 8 and 16 bit, but I have to agree that it is more a 16 bit than an 8 bit processor.
I was a bit confused by the statement that Windows 1.0 required an 8086, which it did not.
I have actually installed and used (well...) Windows 1.0 on a standard IBM PC/XT which uses an 8088.
It was useless, but it (sort of) worked.
It was quicker than the reported speed of Ubuntu on 8 bit (closing a OK/Cancel dialog box only took like 20 seconds), but it was still painful even as a test.
What is there to sell?
How is it different from Slashdot, Google, Facebook, Youtube, etc?
Not much. But I would not pay for the stuff I post, so I have no expectation of other paying for it either. Neither would I pay to read /. /. were to sell it for a gazillion of dollars and I was annoyed by that, I would simply stop posting/moderating. That would teach them a lesson! ...or maybe not.
The fact that some people may make a profit out of it does not bother me. I get to have some fun and occasionally read some interesting stuff.
If whoever owns
...or even news to you, then you have not been paying attention.
And it is not just in line with the Chine government general attitude towards the internet. It is in line with their general attitude towards any public exchange of information. Internet did not change the attitude, it just made it more difficult to enforce.
Now, start looking for some of the same attitude elsewhere. Lots of people want to control information and define the truth. It is just that the Chinese are more obvious about it and more successful than most.
This sounds just like the music and movie business when they were trying to resist the changes in technology instead of embracing it.
We know how that worked out.
Maybe the telecom people should start reading the news?
...just get more monitors.
If you want to unseat the dominant market player, you have to not just be better than them, but be a lot better.
Or you just change the market. Linux is not popular in the traditional PC market, but where it succeeds is in new markets.
If you look back, beating the major player sometimes involved changing the market.
Digital Equipment Corporation could not beat IBM on the mainframe, so they created the minicomputer.
SUN was successful because they initially just put together standard equipment while the competition were still busy designing proprietary hardware.
Now, is there a media player out there that does not run Linux? Even my TV runs Linux!
So basically it is all around us in places which either did not exist, or did not need an OS. But Linux will never dominate the desktop. So what?
I can hear the difference listening to Dave Brubeck on original vinyl vs. modern CD.
That is because the mastering is different. It is a well known fact that during the times when several media were on sale, there were different masterings for cassette/Vinyl/CD.
Resiiues of older tracks on CD are allways remastered. That change is clearly audible.
Of course, pressing the same master on to vinyl will also change the sound, as there are more sound changing steps involved between you and the master.
The values i a Netflix subscription is just too small for a normal person to engage in a lawsuit. Even a class action suit would be off little value (look at history - only lawyers get any real money out of it). The real power for the subscribers is to stop the subscription. And you do not need to sue or go to arbitration over that.
And of course, if they give bad service it is far more efficient to slashdot them over it than to sue anyway.
The naming scheme depends on your company.
If you are a small shop with a few servers and one or two sysadmins, it really does not matter.
Once you go beyond one physical site you need to include an identifier for what site the server is on.
And the more people you have managing the servers, the more you need a standard. Because it is not YOUR server anymore.
And the more servers, the more you need a scalable naming system (which mean numbers somewhere)
One factor to take into account is when you list your servers, what is the primary way you want to sort them? For our company (with 500+ sites) it is the site they are on, so the first parameter is the site. If you are a single site shop, then it is probably function. Do whatever fits the way you work.
And then there is another factor: If your servers are called Mickey Mouse and Frodo, there is a risk that management will not perceive the IT people as the most serious bunch, and they will treat you according to their perception. If you present a well structured system, then there is a good chance that you will be taken more seriously when you deal with management.
but one of the reasons for making back up cameras mandatory is that really people literally cannot turn around far enough to look over their shoulder while backing up.
Also take into account that it seems that more and more cars have smaller rear windows. Especially in the small to medium segment.
Of course you are mandated to fix it. But why should it cost several grand to fix it? The parts cost close to nothing, so it would cost more or less the same as fixing any broken feature on the car.
Have you read the whitepaper?
The blog here: http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/1263008/nokia_808_pureview_photo_samples_released.html has bot a brief explanation of how the pixels are used and some sample images. Same images as in the zip file in the previous post.
Again, check out the whitepaper which explains how the pixels will be used:
http://europe.nokia.com/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/8000-series/808/Nokia808PureView_Whitepaper.pdf
It is actual pixels. Have a look at the whitepaper on the technology. In essence, it can be used for digital zoom where you still have a decent resolution on the final image:
http://europe.nokia.com/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/8000-series/808/Nokia808PureView_Whitepaper.pdf
Nokia understands it. They have a whitepaper on the technology which explains the use of the chip. Mainly, it is used for digital zooming.
Link to whitepaper: http://europe.nokia.com/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/8000-series/808/Nokia808PureView_Whitepaper.pdf
They also produced the first digital SLRs
Which may explain why Nikon is still big in cameras, while Kodak is not.
The problem is that although they invented digital cameras, their expertise as a company was not in cameras and electronics, but in manufacturing film, which is mainly chemistry.
Kodak were never a big company in cameras (proven by the fact that the high end model they had was just a digital back end for a conventional SLR from one of the main manufacturers, I cannot remember if it was Nikon or Canon).
Nikon and Canon were camera manufacturers. They adapted to the digital technology, because they had (and have) their expertise in cameras. Kodak's main expertise is in the very single part of a camera that is not needed anymore, the film. So whole Canon and Nikon had to adapt (they had already started to put electronics in their camera) by replacing the film mechanics with a CCD and some electronics,
Kodak would have needed to change the company to a completely different business. Not so simple. They tried, but the change was apparently too big to be possible.