For a moment I was excited about the possibility of incorporating the best of Solaris into Linux. . .
Yes, in another and better world that would be the obvious impact. Linux would suck Solaris dry and spit out the rind. Sun would be forced to "go Linux" (while claiming it was their innovation all along) or try to make a living off the rind.
But in this world my orginal comment is so obvious and true that it isn't even funny.
Well, we seem to have a different perspective on the article, because to my reading that was the entire point of the article.
Of course, preservation of lens investment is the whole idea for the user. ..
No, that's only part of the idea. Eventually people are willing to "upgrade," if they perceive some advantage in doing so. People really do throw money around like water and I know lots of people who have thousands of dollars in lenses sitting around gathering dust.
. ..and the manufacturer.
Manufacturers do not invest in lenses. They invest in manufacturing and marketing. Their goal? To sell as much new product at a profit as they possibly can.
They don't give a shit about saving you money. They care about transfering your money from your pocket into theirs. The very antithesis of saving you money.
The author also missed the point that DSLR's are an attempt to make cameras that best utilize existing lenses.
". . . by utilizing the interchangeability of the lenses on a DSLR, you open yourself up to the use of dozens of lenses appropriate for all kinds of various uses and prices from around $60 up to, and in excess of, $8,000. For photographers switching from a film SLR to a DSLR of the same brand and mount, this means your investment in lenses does not go out the window."
*All* we had was a pinhole. That's all we ever had.
The really cool part was getting to stand on your head to look at the picture on the back wall.
KFG
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My friends like to joke that at the rate I'm upgrading my "UBER-1337" system I should join the 21st century sometime around 2010. That would put me a full generation behind on the Clarke scale.
I get a pretty solid 36 fps with all the graphical candy turned on, and I like it.
It requires a metric purseload (much smaller than the SAE purseload) of cords, which I admit take about 15 seconds more to get up and running than your laptop. When using a laptop where it's going to be used in a desktop like situation anyway I still end up carrying a keyboard and mouse. The exra inconvienience of carrying same is vastly outweighed by the convienienc of being able to use same for days at a time.
My only real gripe with my "UBER-1337" system, in terms of portability, is the CRT, but joining the 21st century will take care of that issue.
Look, I'm not saying that I don't think there's a legitimate use for laptops in gaming. They're a great time killer while hanging around the terminal, otherwise bored out of your skull, while waiting for your connecting flight.
But in those situations where you're just going to haul it in, plug it into line power, and leave it there for hours, or days, at a time I just don't see that they fit the bill properly.
And by not having to pay for one I get to spend my money on all sorts of "UBER-1337" shit like food, clothing, housing and having more time to play games.
Your money is your own to do with as you please and I'm perfectly content with your using it to do nothing more than making your insides feel all warm and fuzzy.
My cat manages to have hour upon hour of gaming pleasure from no greater expense than my tossing her my Pepsi bottle cap.
Did I mention that you can actually build a Lithium Ion UPS directly into the case of a desktop system?
KFG
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No, you don't use it for striping in a gaming system. It's purely a hardware failsafe. Level 1 mirroring. Pure redundency.
You only need to spin the drive when you write to it, which in a gaming system is a very occasional occurance. We're not talking "Enterprise" order processing database here. We're talking writing back to the config file after a gaming session is over and the ability to switch to that drive if the primary drive fails while actually gaming.
So it's a drain on the battery, but nowhere near twice the drain.
And I certainly never said that using a laptop for a LAN party makes a lot of sense anyway.
Billy always has done the rock star thing a bit different. Become rich and famous. . . buy a 2CV.
Yeah, ok, it's a tarted up "Charleston" 2CV, but it's still just a 2CV. Reminds me of a P.J. O'Rourke maxim:
"Never buy a French car unless you are in France."
Couple of years ago I was walking down the main drag in my town and one of the orginal versions of these drove by, in that black and burgundy that's really kinda classy (classy 2CV. Oxymoron?) I stopped walking to watch it go by and man sitting on a stoop, obeserving me observing it asked:
"Hey mister, what kind of VW is that?"
Peasants.
KFG
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Data redundency of course.
If you're traveling 500 miles each way for a weekend long fragfest that you've already spent hundreds of dollars to attend you don't want to miss the whole thing because a drive crapped out.
But if you had a that sort of money you could build a fairly light, compact desktop system that can be stuffed in a soft attache case for less money than a laptop.
The only reason to use a laptop for gaming is because you need to run on carryable battery power (you can run a desktop from a car or marine battery), which doesn't describe many LAN party situations.
Atlantikos: Greek adjectival form of Mount Atlas. Among the things it modifies is "sea" off the west coast of Africa relating to same. Becomes Atlantik in Middle English, then Atlantic. Circa 1600 comes to denote the entire ocean that said "sea" is now known to be.
Atlantis: Greek noun. Land of Atlas. Invented by Plato to denote its presence in the sea of Atlantikos under the gaze of Atlas.
No, it's a bit more subtle than that. The Greeks, of course, didn't know how big the Atlantic was, per se. It represnted the edge of the world, not in the literal sense, but the figurative, as how in some cultures 1000+1 means "a whole lot, more than can be counted because numbers don't go that high. Infinity."
"Beyond the Pillars Herakles" meant nearly the same thing that we mean when we say "In a galaxy far, far away."
It explictly denotes the realm of myth and story. I'm about to tell you a tale that took place beyond the very limits of the world itself.
Kinda like locating Santa Claus at the North Pole.
As per my post below, the name of the ocean is derived from the ancient Greek word "Atlantikos," a word that was ancient before Plato was born. The derivation is from Atlas, not Atlantis, who stood on top of Atlas's Mountain, in modern day Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast of Africa.
If you look at a map you'll see that this is nearly the westernmost portion of Africa, sticking well out into the Atlantic Ocean.
Atlas had to stand there because that was directly under the center of the dome of heaven ( as you can confirm by trying to hold a dome up by resting anywhere but under its center).
Plato derived the word Atlantis (The Land of Atlas) explicitly to locate it in the sea of Atlantikos, off the westernmost tip of Africa.
No. We named it the Atlantic from Atlantikos. For the region around the center of the earth where the Titan Atlas held up the heavens, in the far west, on the Atlantic side of Africa, where Heracles had to travel to enlist Atlas's aid, passing Gibralter and confering the sobriquet Pillars of Heracles while going about it.
And Atlantis is called Atlantis because it was the land in the ocean of Atlantikos.
This is due to the fact that ancient texts. ..
Text.
. . . say that Atlantis is in the middle of the earth.
Beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Where Atlas holds up the heavens.
And a large number of folks in this country think that "doing God's work" is a Good Thing, and would take offense at "God's work" being used as a negative epithet.
Which a large number of people find offensive.
Neither your offense nor theirs confers any behavioral obligations upon the other.
As it happens I really don't like yellow. I don't know why, I just don't. It offends me. I do, however, recognized that as my problem, not the problem of the people who paint their kitchens yellow or drive yellow cars.
It seems to me that if you wish to be effective in doing God's work (and there are some God fearing people who find that idea offensive. It is taking the Lord in vain. He is perfectly capable of doing his own work), the first thing you have to do is learn not to offended by people who take exception to that. Anger ( and offense is a form of anger) is not one of the Christian tools.
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It's water. Put it outside in a bucket and it simply "goes away."
.chemicals, which you may then do with as you please.
Except for a for small amount of . .
I suggest mixing them with water and pouring it on your houseplants. They'll love you for it.
KFG
For a moment I was excited about the possibility of incorporating the best of Solaris into Linux. . .
Yes, in another and better world that would be the obvious impact. Linux would suck Solaris dry and spit out the rind. Sun would be forced to "go Linux" (while claiming it was their innovation all along) or try to make a living off the rind.
But in this world my orginal comment is so obvious and true that it isn't even funny.
KFG
. . . the lenses came first.
.
.and the manufacturer.
Well, we seem to have a different perspective on the article, because to my reading that was the entire point of the article.
Of course, preservation of lens investment is the whole idea for the user. .
No, that's only part of the idea. Eventually people are willing to "upgrade," if they perceive some advantage in doing so. People really do throw money around like water and I know lots of people who have thousands of dollars in lenses sitting around gathering dust.
. .
Manufacturers do not invest in lenses. They invest in manufacturing and marketing. Their goal? To sell as much new product at a profit as they possibly can.
They don't give a shit about saving you money. They care about transfering your money from your pocket into theirs. The very antithesis of saving you money.
KFG
What makes sense often has little to no observable impact on what happens in reality.
KFG
Ahhhhhhhhh, I see. The problem here is your lack of an "UBER-1337" backpack. :)
KFG
Getting sued by SCO?
KFG
. . .a whole new series of lenses, presumably on a different mount? Not likely!
You're recycling this comment from the one you made when the 35mm format was first introduced, aren't you?
Or was it from the introduction of the PCI bus?
KFG
The author also missed the point that DSLR's are an attempt to make cameras that best utilize existing lenses.
". . . by utilizing the interchangeability of the lenses on a DSLR, you open yourself up to the use of dozens of lenses appropriate for all kinds of various uses and prices from around $60 up to, and in excess of, $8,000. For photographers switching from a film SLR to a DSLR of the same brand and mount, this means your investment in lenses does not go out the window."
KFG
What effect would it have on my images if I simply mounted one of the lenses from my 2 1/4" format camera onto my 35mm body?
KFG
*All* we had was a pinhole. That's all we ever had.
The really cool part was getting to stand on your head to look at the picture on the back wall.
KFG
My friends like to joke that at the rate I'm upgrading my "UBER-1337" system I should join the 21st century sometime around 2010. That would put me a full generation behind on the Clarke scale.
I get a pretty solid 36 fps with all the graphical candy turned on, and I like it.
It requires a metric purseload (much smaller than the SAE purseload) of cords, which I admit take about 15 seconds more to get up and running than your laptop. When using a laptop where it's going to be used in a desktop like situation anyway I still end up carrying a keyboard and mouse. The exra inconvienience of carrying same is vastly outweighed by the convienienc of being able to use same for days at a time.
My only real gripe with my "UBER-1337" system, in terms of portability, is the CRT, but joining the 21st century will take care of that issue.
Look, I'm not saying that I don't think there's a legitimate use for laptops in gaming. They're a great time killer while hanging around the terminal, otherwise bored out of your skull, while waiting for your connecting flight.
But in those situations where you're just going to haul it in, plug it into line power, and leave it there for hours, or days, at a time I just don't see that they fit the bill properly.
And by not having to pay for one I get to spend my money on all sorts of "UBER-1337" shit like food, clothing, housing and having more time to play games.
Your money is your own to do with as you please and I'm perfectly content with your using it to do nothing more than making your insides feel all warm and fuzzy.
My cat manages to have hour upon hour of gaming pleasure from no greater expense than my tossing her my Pepsi bottle cap.
To each his own.
KFG
Did I mention that you can actually build a Lithium Ion UPS directly into the case of a desktop system?
KFG
No, you don't use it for striping in a gaming system. It's purely a hardware failsafe. Level 1 mirroring. Pure redundency.
You only need to spin the drive when you write to it, which in a gaming system is a very occasional occurance. We're not talking "Enterprise" order processing database here. We're talking writing back to the config file after a gaming session is over and the ability to switch to that drive if the primary drive fails while actually gaming.
So it's a drain on the battery, but nowhere near twice the drain.
And I certainly never said that using a laptop for a LAN party makes a lot of sense anyway.
KFG
Billy always has done the rock star thing a bit different. Become rich and famous. . . buy a 2CV.
Yeah, ok, it's a tarted up "Charleston" 2CV, but it's still just a 2CV. Reminds me of a P.J. O'Rourke maxim:
"Never buy a French car unless you are in France."
Couple of years ago I was walking down the main drag in my town and one of the orginal versions of these drove by, in that black and burgundy that's really kinda classy (classy 2CV. Oxymoron?) I stopped walking to watch it go by and man sitting on a stoop, obeserving me observing it asked:
"Hey mister, what kind of VW is that?"
Peasants.
KFG
Data redundency of course.
If you're traveling 500 miles each way for a weekend long fragfest that you've already spent hundreds of dollars to attend you don't want to miss the whole thing because a drive crapped out.
KFG
But if you had a that sort of money you could build a fairly light, compact desktop system that can be stuffed in a soft attache case for less money than a laptop.
The only reason to use a laptop for gaming is because you need to run on carryable battery power (you can run a desktop from a car or marine battery), which doesn't describe many LAN party situations.
KFG
When the only tool you have is an axe, everything looks like fun. :-)
Yeah, they made us shout that in group before trust building exercises at the Borden Institute of Family Relationships.
KFG
Atlantikos: Greek adjectival form of Mount Atlas. Among the things it modifies is "sea" off the west coast of Africa relating to same. Becomes Atlantik in Middle English, then Atlantic. Circa 1600 comes to denote the entire ocean that said "sea" is now known to be.
Atlantis: Greek noun. Land of Atlas. Invented by Plato to denote its presence in the sea of Atlantikos under the gaze of Atlas.
dictionary.com definition of "Atlantic"
KFG
No, it's a bit more subtle than that. The Greeks, of course, didn't know how big the Atlantic was, per se. It represnted the edge of the world, not in the literal sense, but the figurative, as how in some cultures 1000+1 means "a whole lot, more than can be counted because numbers don't go that high. Infinity."
"Beyond the Pillars Herakles" meant nearly the same thing that we mean when we say "In a galaxy far, far away."
It explictly denotes the realm of myth and story. I'm about to tell you a tale that took place beyond the very limits of the world itself.
Kinda like locating Santa Claus at the North Pole.
KFG
As per my post below, the name of the ocean is derived from the ancient Greek word "Atlantikos," a word that was ancient before Plato was born. The derivation is from Atlas, not Atlantis, who stood on top of Atlas's Mountain, in modern day Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast of Africa.
If you look at a map you'll see that this is nearly the westernmost portion of Africa, sticking well out into the Atlantic Ocean.
Atlas had to stand there because that was directly under the center of the dome of heaven ( as you can confirm by trying to hold a dome up by resting anywhere but under its center).
Plato derived the word Atlantis (The Land of Atlas) explicitly to locate it in the sea of Atlantikos, off the westernmost tip of Africa.
KFG
Indians come from India!
When you say that, do you mean Indian Indians, or "Woo Woo" Indians?
KFG
This just leeves me speachless.
:)
He said.
KFG
No. We named it the Atlantic from Atlantikos. For the region around the center of the earth where the Titan Atlas held up the heavens, in the far west, on the Atlantic side of Africa, where Heracles had to travel to enlist Atlas's aid, passing Gibralter and confering the sobriquet Pillars of Heracles while going about it.
.
And Atlantis is called Atlantis because it was the land in the ocean of Atlantikos.
This is due to the fact that ancient texts. .
Text.
. . . say that Atlantis is in the middle of the earth.
Beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Where Atlas holds up the heavens.
KFG
And a large number of folks in this country think that "doing God's work" is a Good Thing, and would take offense at "God's work" being used as a negative epithet.
Which a large number of people find offensive.
Neither your offense nor theirs confers any behavioral obligations upon the other.
As it happens I really don't like yellow. I don't know why, I just don't. It offends me. I do, however, recognized that as my problem, not the problem of the people who paint their kitchens yellow or drive yellow cars.
It seems to me that if you wish to be effective in doing God's work (and there are some God fearing people who find that idea offensive. It is taking the Lord in vain. He is perfectly capable of doing his own work), the first thing you have to do is learn not to offended by people who take exception to that. Anger ( and offense is a form of anger) is not one of the Christian tools.
Peace, brother.
KFG
Can the online forum industry and its participants keep their mittens out of the political slugfest?
According to KFG they sure can't.
KFG