The D60 is an amazing camera. I want to own one someday (or a D90 or whatever will be out when I can afford it). It's something like $2200 ($2699 MSRP) for the camera body alone. You'll need more money for lenses. Plus you'll want a couple hundred more for either a Microdrive or a 512MB compact flash card. Compare that to maybe $600 for a roughly equivalent Canon 35mm body that probably comes with some kind of lens. The difference will buy you a lot of film and processing fees.
One interesting difference between film and digital is that with film, you can get fast film speeds (e.g., ISO 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, etc). Digital doesn't really do that yet. Most digital camera CCD's are somewhere around 100 ISO. It will sometimes try to fake a higher speed by bumping up the sensitivity of the CCD, but the results are noisy and "grainy". It's actually better to underexpose the CCD and alter the image in an image editor later. So currently, digital cameras are no good for "sports photography" or any kind of pictures where you have rapidly moving subjects.
Another area of interest is long exposures. CCDs tend to introduce a lot of noise to long exposure shots (e.g., night shots). One interesting way the Canon D30 and D60 cameras get around this is by using a CMOS sensor instead of a CCD. I'm not really sure how else the choice of CMOS versus CCD affects imaging.
Uh... So why doesn't Microsoft advertise Office v.X and Internet Explorer for Mac? Answer: Because they don't want it advertised. They agreed to build Office X and IE for Mac as part of the Apple vs. Microsoft settlement. That's it. Their obligation is fulfilled. Whatever money they make from sales is just "gravy".
Also, if Office v.X was advertised, then people would start realizing that you don't need a buggy crash-prone Microsoft operating system to run Office or IE.
By the way, if the browser is a part of the operating system (Windows), why is it possible for Microsoft to separate it for the Mac but not for Windows? Hmm...
You're not thinking of car audiophiles, you're thinking of car bass addicts, whose only gauge of how "good" a system is is how loud the bass gets. Those are the people who decide what to buy based on what the popular rappers rap about in their songs.
There is such a thing as a car audiophile, and they will talk on and on about the sound stage, et cetera just like any other audiophile. However, car audio is so much more difficult than home audio that it doesn't make as much sense The car is driving through so many different places that the environment is constantly changing as long as the car is in motion. If you can make soemthing sound "good" in a that environment, then you are doing very well.
By the way, there are enough car audiophiles who want to be able to enjoy classical or jazz or whatever music in their Porsches. And if they spend $80,000 on a car and they like listening to music in the car, they can and do spend $8,000 on a system. Of course, many of these people are "pretentious wankers". They could easily get a system 90% as good for $2,000.
The Anthrax investigation DOES have a billion-dollar biological weapons industry backing it. After all, those terrorists are illegally copying anthrax bacteria without permission. All these trillions of copies of Anthrax that the terrorists make costs the biological weapons industry money because it deflates the value of the product line the bio-weapons industry provides. Not only does it deflate the value of the legitimate Anthrax by reducing the scarcity, but it also makes the entire Anthrax industry less valuable by forcing friends and enemies to acquire anti-bacteriological weapons equipment.
My guess is that the bio weapons industry has something better in store, with copy protection to prevent pirates from using it.
All it takes is another PhD student in the same field to put his Matlab scripts online for free, and your business will be in danger. Of course, some people will always decide to pay money rather than think for themselves.
Dependence on individual brilliance is not necessarily a bad thing.
When that one individual gets hit by a car and the entire company is fucked, that's a bad thing. Or when the brilliant genius gets headhunted and goes to a company that will pay him 3 times as much and give him a team of people to do all the boring stuff... of course, no one else understands the guy's system.
Real companies try not to operate that way. They force their geniuses to document their work so if all else fails, they can hire a lesser genius to take the place of the genius who leaves. Even if you're the genius who started the company, it's better if you document things so that you can retire young.
if enough people ignore them, they simply become irrelevant...
Sure, just like copyright. If enough people ignore it, it will be irrelevant... Except for the fact that the intellectual property holders have money and will use it to hire lawyers to sue people who violate their intellectual property rights (either copyright or patent rights).
So it's only really irrelevant if you're not sued.
The answer is probably something like... voting member groups can join the ARB for $100,000 yearly membership dues. For that, you'll get a link to your company's website on the ARB's member list page. Member companies may also send up to 3 corporate research workers to the ARB meetings, which may be located in completely random places in the world.
I don't see why. *smile* To me it sounds like Microsoft would be satisfied if any OpenGL technology developed using their "Intelectual Property" was GPL'd.
You're being naive. Microsoft doesn't care who implements it. Microsoft can reimplement whatever it wants to. They have more than enough programmers to do so. What Microsoft wants is a free license to use OpenGL 2.0. This is very dangerous, since normally OpenGL implementations need to be certified by the OpenGL group. This certification costs money, which is why the Mesa 3D people weren't allowed to call themselves an OpenGL implementation. If Microsoft can say that their implementation is OpenGL 2.0 without any kind of certification, then their version would be the de facto OpenGL, regardless of what the standard is.
If the OpenGL group blindly agrees to Microsoft's seemingly generous offer, the lawyers who make the decisions will hopefully explain that signing away liberties is not such a great idea.
He didn't say you had to sleep with tons of people. He just said that you should have advanced social skills, so that you could walk into any social situation and walk out with someone who would be willing to do whatever you want.
Social skills are important. And I mean real social skills, not chatting on AIM or IRC.
(2) and (3) are perfectly compatible. What use is finding Miss/Mr. Right if she/he won't even talk to you. Being good at relationships requires lots of practice. Being good at sex requires lots of practice. Starting successful companies requires lots of practice.
The idea here is finding an optimal solution, not merely finding the same mediocre solution that the average person would find. We are all placed into our lives with a certain set of resources. But everyone's goal is the same: to maximize our success by the end of the game (life). You can define success in any way you want. You can play randomly, or you can have some strategy.
Dreamcast ruled. They had better graphics than PS2 over a year before PS2 was released. These graphics included antialiasing and Z-buffering, both of which Sony still doesn't have. Plus, they had an innovative controller that both Microsoft and Nintendo have copied. Sega, with the Dreamcast, is also the first company to ship an internet-ready console to every customer. Each and every Dreamcast came with a modem (well, except for some non-Japan Asian model Dreamcasts that came without a modem).
Only now, 2 years later, has Sony figured out how to graft on a VGA interface to its PS2. And that VGA interface requires rewriting software and will only work with Sync-On-Green monitors.
Sega was so far ahead of its time, it's not even funny.
Of course, you can also run a window manager on another machine. It will be a bit slower than what you're used to. Most people use these X servers for Windows to run remote X apps anyway.
It IS that easy. Here's his announcement. As far as I can tell, it's only non-trivial if you're brand new to Apache or compiling software in Linux. This guy admits to being "new to all of this".
The greater benefit of downloading pre-compiled binaries for PS2/Linux is that compiling things on the PS2 takes a very long time. Compiling xmame for example, takes roughly 2-3 hours.
Hi all.
I've been a regular user of Apache now for about a year, 1.3 and more recently 2.0. Recently Sony released a kit to turn their PlayStation 2 console into a fully featured Linux machine (hard drive, Ethernet etc etc). This kit has been gaining great popularity amongst the Linux community, and several users (such as myself) have already decided to use it as a webserver:)
Anyway: to get to the point: the PS2 only has a 300mhz MIPS processor, and the compile time for Apache is quite hefty. Another discouraging factor for any would-be Apache on PS2 users is that compiling "anything" can be quite a daunting task for many people. For this reason, I've decided to provide compiled Apache 2 binaries for download.
These are currently available from http://www.phi-web.co.uk/ps2-apache/ and I will endeavour to provide the binaries for each new release of Apache 2 within a day or so of it "emerging". I just thought I'd let you guys know about this potential (admittedly small) market for Apache. With any luck, by making binaries for it more high-profile, more people will purchase the PS2 kit, and hence get interested in Linux.
I hope you don't mind me posting here, but it seemed like you guys should be the ones to know. Given that I'm quite new to all of this, I compiled it using the binbuild.sh script, but this has produced a fairly large (>11megs) archive: is this normal? Or is there an alternate method to provide a smaller archive?
Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Chris Taylor
chris@phi-web.co.uk - The guy with the PS2 Webserver:)
Slashdot Mirror
There aren't any toxic byproducts from making chocolate chip cookies.
The D60 is an amazing camera. I want to own one someday (or a D90 or whatever will be out when I can afford it). It's something like $2200 ($2699 MSRP) for the camera body alone. You'll need more money for lenses. Plus you'll want a couple hundred more for either a Microdrive or a 512MB compact flash card. Compare that to maybe $600 for a roughly equivalent Canon 35mm body that probably comes with some kind of lens. The difference will buy you a lot of film and processing fees.
One interesting difference between film and digital is that with film, you can get fast film speeds (e.g., ISO 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, etc). Digital doesn't really do that yet. Most digital camera CCD's are somewhere around 100 ISO. It will sometimes try to fake a higher speed by bumping up the sensitivity of the CCD, but the results are noisy and "grainy". It's actually better to underexpose the CCD and alter the image in an image editor later. So currently, digital cameras are no good for "sports photography" or any kind of pictures where you have rapidly moving subjects.
Another area of interest is long exposures. CCDs tend to introduce a lot of noise to long exposure shots (e.g., night shots). One interesting way the Canon D30 and D60 cameras get around this is by using a CMOS sensor instead of a CCD. I'm not really sure how else the choice of CMOS versus CCD affects imaging.
Uh... So why doesn't Microsoft advertise Office v.X and Internet Explorer for Mac? Answer: Because they don't want it advertised. They agreed to build Office X and IE for Mac as part of the Apple vs. Microsoft settlement. That's it. Their obligation is fulfilled. Whatever money they make from sales is just "gravy".
Also, if Office v.X was advertised, then people would start realizing that you don't need a buggy crash-prone Microsoft operating system to run Office or IE.
By the way, if the browser is a part of the operating system (Windows), why is it possible for Microsoft to separate it for the Mac but not for Windows? Hmm...
You're not thinking of car audiophiles, you're thinking of car bass addicts, whose only gauge of how "good" a system is is how loud the bass gets. Those are the people who decide what to buy based on what the popular rappers rap about in their songs.
There is such a thing as a car audiophile, and they will talk on and on about the sound stage, et cetera just like any other audiophile. However, car audio is so much more difficult than home audio that it doesn't make as much sense The car is driving through so many different places that the environment is constantly changing as long as the car is in motion. If you can make soemthing sound "good" in a that environment, then you are doing very well.
By the way, there are enough car audiophiles who want to be able to enjoy classical or jazz or whatever music in their Porsches. And if they spend $80,000 on a car and they like listening to music in the car, they can and do spend $8,000 on a system. Of course, many of these people are "pretentious wankers". They could easily get a system 90% as good for $2,000.
Those are all DJ's who mix other people's music, which sometimes includes Astral Projection or Juno Reactor or other trance creators.
You mean they weren't? That was what was implied.
Taco, the spacebars on Japanese laptops are tiny. They're smaller than the shift keys.
But then Slashdot would Slashdot itself.
The Anthrax investigation DOES have a billion-dollar biological weapons industry backing it. After all, those terrorists are illegally copying anthrax bacteria without permission. All these trillions of copies of Anthrax that the terrorists make costs the biological weapons industry money because it deflates the value of the product line the bio-weapons industry provides. Not only does it deflate the value of the legitimate Anthrax by reducing the scarcity, but it also makes the entire Anthrax industry less valuable by forcing friends and enemies to acquire anti-bacteriological weapons equipment.
My guess is that the bio weapons industry has something better in store, with copy protection to prevent pirates from using it.
All it takes is another PhD student in the same field to put his Matlab scripts online for free, and your business will be in danger. Of course, some people will always decide to pay money rather than think for themselves.
This is Funny(+1) if you've seen Office Space. On the other hand, it is definately Offtopic(-1). But it is definately NOT a Troll(-1).
When that one individual gets hit by a car and the entire company is fucked, that's a bad thing. Or when the brilliant genius gets headhunted and goes to a company that will pay him 3 times as much and give him a team of people to do all the boring stuff... of course, no one else understands the guy's system.
Real companies try not to operate that way. They force their geniuses to document their work so if all else fails, they can hire a lesser genius to take the place of the genius who leaves. Even if you're the genius who started the company, it's better if you document things so that you can retire young.
Sure, just like copyright. If enough people ignore it, it will be irrelevant... Except for the fact that the intellectual property holders have money and will use it to hire lawyers to sue people who violate their intellectual property rights (either copyright or patent rights).
So it's only really irrelevant if you're not sued.
Oops. I must have missed the tags...
You can read a little about the ARB here.
The answer is probably something like... voting member groups can join the ARB for $100,000 yearly membership dues. For that, you'll get a link to your company's website on the ARB's member list page. Member companies may also send up to 3 corporate research workers to the ARB meetings, which may be located in completely random places in the world.
You're being naive. Microsoft doesn't care who implements it. Microsoft can reimplement whatever it wants to. They have more than enough programmers to do so. What Microsoft wants is a free license to use OpenGL 2.0. This is very dangerous, since normally OpenGL implementations need to be certified by the OpenGL group. This certification costs money, which is why the Mesa 3D people weren't allowed to call themselves an OpenGL implementation. If Microsoft can say that their implementation is OpenGL 2.0 without any kind of certification, then their version would be the de facto OpenGL, regardless of what the standard is.
If the OpenGL group blindly agrees to Microsoft's seemingly generous offer, the lawyers who make the decisions will hopefully explain that signing away liberties is not such a great idea.
He didn't say you had to sleep with tons of people. He just said that you should have advanced social skills, so that you could walk into any social situation and walk out with someone who would be willing to do whatever you want.
Social skills are important. And I mean real social skills, not chatting on AIM or IRC.
(2) and (3) are perfectly compatible. What use is finding Miss/Mr. Right if she/he won't even talk to you. Being good at relationships requires lots of practice. Being good at sex requires lots of practice. Starting successful companies requires lots of practice.
The idea here is finding an optimal solution, not merely finding the same mediocre solution that the average person would find. We are all placed into our lives with a certain set of resources. But everyone's goal is the same: to maximize our success by the end of the game (life). You can define success in any way you want. You can play randomly, or you can have some strategy.
Life is the ultimate real-time strategy game.
Who needs crack when you've got Natalie Portman petrified with hot grits in your pants?
There are tons more articles like this on MDN. It's their specialty.
Yahoo Japan still runs auctions at http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/.
Ironically, eBay has shut its doors in Japan. They link people to an auction site called http://www.bidders.co.jp.
Dreamcast ruled. They had better graphics than PS2 over a year before PS2 was released. These graphics included antialiasing and Z-buffering, both of which Sony still doesn't have. Plus, they had an innovative controller that both Microsoft and Nintendo have copied. Sega, with the Dreamcast, is also the first company to ship an internet-ready console to every customer. Each and every Dreamcast came with a modem (well, except for some non-Japan Asian model Dreamcasts that came without a modem).
Only now, 2 years later, has Sony figured out how to graft on a VGA interface to its PS2. And that VGA interface requires rewriting software and will only work with Sync-On-Green monitors.
Sega was so far ahead of its time, it's not even funny.
Of course, you can also run a window manager on another machine. It will be a bit slower than what you're used to. Most people use these X servers for Windows to run remote X apps anyway.
The greater benefit of downloading pre-compiled binaries for PS2/Linux is that compiling things on the PS2 takes a very long time. Compiling xmame for example, takes roughly 2-3 hours.