If you want to print at 300 dpi, which is photo quality and what publishers want, you would need at least 8 MP to do an 8x10" print at 300dpi - minimum for most publications. Now if you want to submit something to a poster company, they want a 20x30" print at 300dpi - which you'd need the $50,000, 50MP Hasselblad H3DII-50 which might be enough. You'd probably better off with film (120 at least) at that size and resolution.
Here's a chart to see how many MPs you need for photo quality digital prints.
Of course, that doesn't take into consideration noise, dynamic range, or color accuracy of the sensor.
Linux admin, or any admin jobs for that matter, will become more of a commodity. In other words, the admin job will be a relatively low paying blue collar type of job - not something that a CS graduate would think of doing unless they're hard up. The admin jobs will be for the tech school graduates. Which, I might add, there is nothing wrong with it. Linux and the low costs associated will lower the overhead of businesses, allowing them to operate more profitably and therefore employ higher skilled and educated people to the higher paying jobs.
Sounds good? No, the real answer is that the lower costs will end up in the CEO's bonus checks while they continually farm out the admin work to third world countries. After all, Linux being free and all, third world countries can educate those folks for very little money and therefore, flood the market with really cheap tech workers.
We, in the developed World will be cursing the existence of Linux and the rest of F/OSS one day - mark my words.
This is nothing but hyperbole based upon a few - that's assuming it's true. This is nothing new. I've had to deal with narcissists since I entered the workforce in the 1980s: programmers who thought they were brilliant and should be worshiped like Gods. This is just a news story that's a backlash against the perceived "self esteem movement"; which is backed up by a bunch of burnt out, cry baby teachers who have their own narcissistic tendencies (Oh look at me! I'm an overworked and underpaid teacher! I'm teaching YOUR CHILDREN! I'm more important than anyone!).
Yawn.
BTW, Teaching is a GREAT gig! Graduate from college at 22, work and get all the extra credentials needed and at 60, retire a millionaire! Guaranteed. The Teacher's Union will see to it - they don't like it when folks point that out. Yep, the profession that has the most retired millionaires is teachers. You won't have a private jet, but you'll be living much better than most retirees. Make sure it's a public school system, though.
Either you give your all to an attempt to claw your way to the top,...
With Globalization, you have to give it your all just to stay where you are. There's no room anymore for average. What I hear from business leaders time and time again, "Why should I pay so much for an average American when I can get a much more productive and smarter Indian for half the price."
No, unless you're very good at what you do and can compete with others all over the World, there just isn't much chance of getting to the top anymore. The Baby Boom generation were the last to be able to that.
Doesn't a doc have to finish her residency? So, if she gets pregnant and takes maternity leave, she'll just have to come back and finish? I don't get how it reduces the quality of care.
"Advanced Creation Studies"? WTF is THAT?! The basic class says God did it, the Advanced shows the fossil proof that He did do it?
But creationists say the purpose of their visits to what some describe as "temples to evolution" is to train themselves to think critically, not to pick rhetorical fights with curators or other visitors.
Oh God! Mental note: Don't hire anyone from Liberty University, VA.
I would suggest, if I may, that instead you show the web page without IE specific code showing all its ugliness and with a message that states that IE isn't standards compliant, you don't have the resources to code around IE's hacks, and that the user would be best served by Firefox, Opera, or Chrome.
This accomplishes two things: one, it shows that their browser isn't that good, and two, it shows other browsers are available and lastly, it doesn't just throw those folks out - otherwise, they'll just move on; unless you're the coder for the Wall Street Journal or some other website where the viewers are captive.
And at the bottom of your web page, instead of having some non-sense such as "This page best viewed with IEx", have something that says, "Page best viewed with standards compliant browsers, such as X,Y, and Z".
Because we're all in a Globalized economy. No nation is an economic island anymore. The financial markets, especially, are so interlinked, I don't think it's possible to do business in only one economy.
I can't imagine any legislature would even consider this seriously since there is no way for them to enforce this except for those businesses that deal in keywords and have servers in Utah and the company only deals in Utah (i.e. not on the internet). I would think that other than that, the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution applies and they would not be able to regulate it at the state level.
Is this the case? I am usually wrong so I would like someone with a better sense of the law to comment on this.
This has nothing to do with the law; it has to do with politics.
You grossly over estimate the altruism, intelligence, and motives of politicians. This legislation is designed to get votes. Period. Some cry baby vocal minority out there wants this and the rest of the population, more than likely, doesn't give a shit.
In the meantime, the politicians get the support of the vocal obnoxious cry baby group (volunteer labor and money), which then enables said politicians get to keep their over paid cushy jobs.
the top for Conspicuous consumption is if Timothy mentioned that he had a hard time choosing which car to drive to the airport: the BMW or the Mercedes.
I guess it's nice to be one of the dot-bomb millionaires from the 90's. But hey, with the stock market the way it is, I'm sure he only has a few million in paper value left.
Thanks a lot! Now I have the bass line from Ice Ice Baby going through my head!
Pay back:
The Oscar Meyer Weiner song. "Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Weiner..."
Or "Who wear's short shorts..."
God, if you say, "What?" I've never heard of those." I'll have to put this onion back on my belt. Because that was the style when I was growing up. Right after the Vietnam War. Ford was President and this Peanut farmer from Georgia was running against him, Chevy Chase loved to make fun of Ford on that new show "Live on Saturday Night". Taxes were....
I set my browser to delete all cookies every time I close down. I guess that means I'd have to go to that page every time I'm on the internet to opt out.
That would be a great add-on. One that, upon Firefox startup, goes and opt-outs for you.
He brought up some interesting points. But the real problem with health care in this country has to do with the payment system. Here's an example on how to do it well: I don't know about your dentist, but mine informs me about costs upfront. I know how much something will cost and I can make the decision, based on his or another dentist's advice, on what to do and how to spend my money - which includes what my dental insurance eventually pays because I am the one paying the premiums after all and I am the one paying the co-pay.
Medical care, on the other hand, has an obfuscated price structure. Do you want to know how much something will cost? You can't find out. There's a price for the insurance company which is a trade secret, a cost for cash paying customers, and another cost for government. What really pisses me off is that there's a price to pay in cash, assuming the doctor won't cut you a discount, is MORE than the insurance price! The insurer will take their sweet ass time to pay the doc (I've seen over a year!) and yet, if I pay NOW, it costs more! I tell you doctors are pretty stupid when it comes to business!
Do you know who the true customer is? The one who pays. That's right! The insurance company is the REAL customer! They're the ones that the docs answer to: not us. That's why health care is so over the top! And the other thing is keeping folks alive for another month or so. My wife had an 89 year old patient who had a heart valve replaced. The doc who did it said that the patient will be gone in a couple of months because he was too old to handle the surgery - at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars to the tax payer. Why are we spending so much money keeping people who should be dead alive for a couple of more months? I'm not suggesting a Soylent Green scenario, but we have to face the facts of life that we can't live forever. Sure the doc could be wrong and that old guy could live to 100, but the odds are, he'll be gone and our health care costs continue to spiral out of control. I'm sorry for being callous, but I have a real problem with spending thousands and thousands of dollars on people who should be dead: they're too old, they lived hard (smoked, drank, fucked everything in sight, etc...)
Nope, IT is not going to help anything. We, as a society really need to reevaluate our priorities and and how we pay for our care.
None of them could be great in the modern World. All of your examples are form primitive man - anyone with a half decent brain and the means could have been a "Renaissance man" during the times you mentioned - cannot happen today - the World is TOO complicated. I stand by my original statment.
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to control infestations of africanized bees
The slang term is "Biggers". Kind of like "Wiggers" only it's in regards to bees.
Would someone think of the bats! Think of the poor little cut cuddly starving bats!
I'm guessing that at some point, this type of central hosting is going to necessitate an attempt by Sun to generate some income from the service.
With a F/OSS project, they'll make their money with service and support. It'll change their fortunes.
For a 16x20" print at 300dpi, 16MP is woefully inadequate. You'd need about 33 mega pixels. 300dpi is photo quality, btw.
Here's a chart to see how many MPs you need for photo quality digital prints.
Of course, that doesn't take into consideration noise, dynamic range, or color accuracy of the sensor.
Sounds good? No, the real answer is that the lower costs will end up in the CEO's bonus checks while they continually farm out the admin work to third world countries. After all, Linux being free and all, third world countries can educate those folks for very little money and therefore, flood the market with really cheap tech workers.
We, in the developed World will be cursing the existence of Linux and the rest of F/OSS one day - mark my words.
Yawn.
BTW, Teaching is a GREAT gig! Graduate from college at 22, work and get all the extra credentials needed and at 60, retire a millionaire! Guaranteed. The Teacher's Union will see to it - they don't like it when folks point that out. Yep, the profession that has the most retired millionaires is teachers. You won't have a private jet, but you'll be living much better than most retirees. Make sure it's a public school system, though.
That's why their stuff is so bloated and slow.
Either you give your all to an attempt to claw your way to the top,...
With Globalization, you have to give it your all just to stay where you are. There's no room anymore for average. What I hear from business leaders time and time again, "Why should I pay so much for an average American when I can get a much more productive and smarter Indian for half the price."
No, unless you're very good at what you do and can compete with others all over the World, there just isn't much chance of getting to the top anymore. The Baby Boom generation were the last to be able to that.
Doesn't a doc have to finish her residency? So, if she gets pregnant and takes maternity leave, she'll just have to come back and finish? I don't get how it reduces the quality of care.
But creationists say the purpose of their visits to what some describe as "temples to evolution" is to train themselves to think critically, not to pick rhetorical fights with curators or other visitors.
Oh God! Mental note: Don't hire anyone from Liberty University, VA.
The US Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate...
Stop right there. Already, I don't like it!
This accomplishes two things: one, it shows that their browser isn't that good, and two, it shows other browsers are available and lastly, it doesn't just throw those folks out - otherwise, they'll just move on; unless you're the coder for the Wall Street Journal or some other website where the viewers are captive.
And at the bottom of your web page, instead of having some non-sense such as "This page best viewed with IEx", have something that says, "Page best viewed with standards compliant browsers, such as X,Y, and Z".
A great book about it: The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy.
I can't imagine any legislature would even consider this seriously since there is no way for them to enforce this except for those businesses that deal in keywords and have servers in Utah and the company only deals in Utah (i.e. not on the internet). I would think that other than that, the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution applies and they would not be able to regulate it at the state level. Is this the case? I am usually wrong so I would like someone with a better sense of the law to comment on this.
This has nothing to do with the law; it has to do with politics.
You grossly over estimate the altruism, intelligence, and motives of politicians. This legislation is designed to get votes. Period. Some cry baby vocal minority out there wants this and the rest of the population, more than likely, doesn't give a shit.
In the meantime, the politicians get the support of the vocal obnoxious cry baby group (volunteer labor and money), which then enables said politicians get to keep their over paid cushy jobs.
Simple.
Slashdot has a fashion section now?
They always did. They're usually posted under Apple.
Oh, boy! There goes my black turtle neck envy again.
But have you guys seen my purse?
It's called a man-bag - bitch!
I guess it's nice to be one of the dot-bomb millionaires from the 90's. But hey, with the stock market the way it is, I'm sure he only has a few million in paper value left.
"Ice wish Ice were an Oscar short-shorts baby..." DJ Bemopolis Out. Peeaccceee!!
What?!? Like I said, we wore this Onion on our belt....
Pay back:
The Oscar Meyer Weiner song. "Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Weiner ..."
Or "Who wear's short shorts..."
God, if you say, "What?" I've never heard of those." I'll have to put this onion back on my belt. Because that was the style when I was growing up. Right after the Vietnam War. Ford was President and this Peanut farmer from Georgia was running against him, Chevy Chase loved to make fun of Ford on that new show "Live on Saturday Night". Taxes were....
What were we talking about again?
At least you can opt-out.
I set my browser to delete all cookies every time I close down. I guess that means I'd have to go to that page every time I'm on the internet to opt out.
That would be a great add-on. One that, upon Firefox startup, goes and opt-outs for you.
Medical care, on the other hand, has an obfuscated price structure. Do you want to know how much something will cost? You can't find out. There's a price for the insurance company which is a trade secret, a cost for cash paying customers, and another cost for government. What really pisses me off is that there's a price to pay in cash, assuming the doctor won't cut you a discount, is MORE than the insurance price! The insurer will take their sweet ass time to pay the doc (I've seen over a year!) and yet, if I pay NOW, it costs more! I tell you doctors are pretty stupid when it comes to business!
Do you know who the true customer is? The one who pays. That's right! The insurance company is the REAL customer! They're the ones that the docs answer to: not us. That's why health care is so over the top! And the other thing is keeping folks alive for another month or so. My wife had an 89 year old patient who had a heart valve replaced. The doc who did it said that the patient will be gone in a couple of months because he was too old to handle the surgery - at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars to the tax payer. Why are we spending so much money keeping people who should be dead alive for a couple of more months? I'm not suggesting a Soylent Green scenario, but we have to face the facts of life that we can't live forever. Sure the doc could be wrong and that old guy could live to 100, but the odds are, he'll be gone and our health care costs continue to spiral out of control. I'm sorry for being callous, but I have a real problem with spending thousands and thousands of dollars on people who should be dead: they're too old, they lived hard (smoked, drank, fucked everything in sight, etc...)
Nope, IT is not going to help anything. We, as a society really need to reevaluate our priorities and and how we pay for our care.
None of them could be great in the modern World. All of your examples are form primitive man - anyone with a half decent brain and the means could have been a "Renaissance man" during the times you mentioned - cannot happen today - the World is TOO complicated. I stand by my original statment.