And to think that some people claim Linux isn't ready for the desktop!;)
Re:Lightroom is ... nice. Really nice.
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Lightroom Vs. Aperture
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I also beta-tested lightroom. When operating on collections of local photos, it's a total pleasure. I'd buy it in a second if I stored my photos on my PC/Mac.
However, woe unto you if your photos reside on an external server. For whatever reason, Lightroom chokes (i.e., consumes huge amounts of RAM and swaps like mad, eventually bringing the machine to its knees) when "reference-in-place" importing photos from non-local storage. If you you can manage to import a small number of non-local photos, operating on them results in similar hangs and hiccups.
(This the result of testing on multiple different systems (Mac, PC) on different 100-BT and 1000-BT networks.)
For comparison, Aperture and Picasa have no such issues with non-local files.
My only guess is that Lightroom's multithreading doesn't play well with the longer latencies introduced by networked storage. My support queries went unanswered, so I'm not positive.
While giving to money to help ease the Katrina-related suffering is eminently laudible, please do not do so through the Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army is an rather strident anti-gay evangelical Christian organization. For example, they lobbied the Bush administration to add anti-gay provisions into the faith-based initiative legislation.
Please give by some alternate means, such as the Red Cross.
It is standard operating procedure to include in SEC filings discussion of any factors that will or reasonably may negatively impact business.
This CYA language is meant to prevent both SEC probing and shareholder lawsuits should something go wrong. This language is often copied verbatim in later filings, so it often is written to be as broad as possible.
Mere inclusion of such language does not mean that these factors have happened or will happen, only that the company thinks there is some non-zero chance of it happening.
Not surprisingly, SCO's language is pretty mushy here, but the wording, "have initiated or in the future may initiate" makes me believe that they're simply being prudent.
Of course, the fact that they feel the need to mention regulator investigation says a great deal about the company, regardless.
RISC vs. CISC describe differences in richness of instruction set.
Given a RISC and CISC machine that runs at the same clock speed, the CISC will provide better performance, becuase it will (in theory) do more with each instruction.
For example, a CISC archicecture might provide a multiply-add instruction, whereas the RISC archictecture might only provide separate multiply and add instructions.
In theory, because RISC is "simpler" than CISC, RISC can be made to run at higher clock speeds. But if my CISC Celeron ran at the same clock speed as my RISC PowerPC, the Celeron would likely outperform the PowerPC.
Your box analogy is (sort of) right for data parallel (e.g., SIMD) operations, such as the PowerPC's altivec. It's not a RISC vs. CISC issue. As proof, note that Intel's MMX/SSE provides similar functionality.
It's a question of art history, not a question of "just as good".
A mediocre work by, say, Picasso, is interesting because it tells a story about his development as an artist, and therefore will likely have some monetary value to a collector or a museum. A mediocre work by, say, me, is just mediocre.
Museums don't exist just to show "good" pictures. Part of their mission is to preserve and illuminate the history of art.
Think of it this way: an early, buggy version of linux is interesting from a historical perspective, while an early, buggy version of my personal operating system is of little interesting to anybody.
I agree that the media has a corporate bias. But I disagree that the media and entertainment industry are fundamentally "left of center"; on social issues, the American people tend to be fairly progressive.
If anything, the result of corporate-driven media is a bland, mainstream, offend-as-few-people-as-possible product.
Access to abortion (in at least some circumstances) and environmental protection laws are thoroughly mainstream "values", the results of the recent U.S. presidential election notwithstanding.
Indeed, the disconnect between the current administration's avowed legistlative agenda and the "values" of the average American is what makes this last election so... "interesting," to my mind.
In little over a generation, we have witnessed the swiftest advance of freedom in the 2,500-year story of democracy. It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.
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That sure looks familiar -- it's recycled from a year-old speech.
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Keep the Mole Men down there where they belong!
> Why would they waste so much money on creating totally new
> designs, much more complex mechanics and try to animate all this?
Obligatory snark:
Because Michael Bay is a total and utter hack?
> The Inquirer is understandably cautious
Wow, now there's a sentence I never expected to see in print!
Here's a link to images of the stamps themselves.
And to think that some people claim Linux isn't ready for the desktop! ;)
I also beta-tested lightroom. When operating on collections of local photos, it's a total pleasure.
I'd buy it in a second if I stored my photos on my PC/Mac.
However, woe unto you if your photos reside on an external server. For whatever reason, Lightroom
chokes (i.e., consumes huge amounts of RAM and swaps like mad, eventually bringing
the machine to its knees) when "reference-in-place" importing photos from non-local storage.
If you you can manage to import a small number of non-local photos, operating on them results
in similar hangs and hiccups.
(This the result of testing on multiple different systems (Mac, PC) on different
100-BT and 1000-BT networks.)
For comparison, Aperture and Picasa have no such issues with non-local files.
My only guess is that Lightroom's multithreading doesn't play well with the longer
latencies introduced by networked storage. My support queries went unanswered,
so I'm not positive.
Dear Adobe: Please Fix! Love, cmcguffin
While giving to money to help ease the Katrina-related suffering is eminently laudible, please do not do so through the Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army is an rather strident anti-gay evangelical Christian organization. For example, they lobbied the Bush administration to add anti-gay provisions into the faith-based initiative legislation.
Please give by some alternate means, such as the Red Cross.
Oh, what might have been...
The linked-to images are not before and after examples.
They are examples of artifacts that appear and then disappear in the post-restoration material.
The artifacts do look bad, but there are no "before" images to judge how much good, if any, the restoration is doing.
The linked to examples are not before and after examples.
They are examples of the restoration artifacts appearing and then disappearing in post-restoration frames.
It is standard operating procedure to include in SEC filings discussion of any factors that will or reasonably may negatively impact business.
This CYA language is meant to prevent both SEC probing and shareholder lawsuits should something go wrong. This language is often copied verbatim in later filings, so it often is written to be as broad as possible.
Mere inclusion of such language does not mean that these factors have happened or will happen, only that the company thinks there is some non-zero chance of it happening.
Not surprisingly, SCO's language is pretty mushy here, but the wording, "have initiated or in the future may initiate" makes me believe that they're simply being prudent.
Of course, the fact that they feel the need to mention regulator investigation says a great deal about the company, regardless.
You have to put it in its proper perspective.
25% Canadian is only 20% American, after all.
And that's before converting from metric to Imperial.
I'm not sure what happened between 2.3.30 and 2.4.14, but apparently that shit is one craptastic penguin-fucking bastard!
RISC vs. CISC describe differences in richness of instruction set.
Given a RISC and CISC machine that runs at the same clock speed, the CISC will provide better performance, becuase it will (in theory) do more with each instruction.
For example, a CISC archicecture might provide a multiply-add instruction, whereas the RISC archictecture might only provide separate multiply and add instructions.
In theory, because RISC is "simpler" than CISC, RISC can be made to run at higher clock speeds. But if my CISC Celeron ran at the same clock speed as my RISC PowerPC, the Celeron would likely outperform the PowerPC.
Your box analogy is (sort of) right for data parallel (e.g., SIMD) operations, such as the PowerPC's altivec. It's not a RISC vs. CISC issue. As proof, note that Intel's MMX/SSE provides similar functionality.
It's a question of art history, not a question of "just as good".
A mediocre work by, say, Picasso, is interesting because it tells a story about his development as an artist, and therefore will likely have some monetary value to a collector or a museum. A mediocre work by, say, me, is just mediocre.
Museums don't exist just to show "good" pictures. Part of their mission is to preserve and illuminate the history of art.
Think of it this way: an early, buggy version of linux is interesting from a historical perspective, while an early, buggy version of my personal operating system is of little interesting to anybody.
I've played countless hours of doom, quake{1,2,3}, doom3, half-life, counter-strike, etc., and never had any symptoms of motion sickness.
HL2, however, makes me want to hurl my cookies. Violently.
I can play for about a half hour at a time, but then feel completely sick for the next 4-6 hours.
This seems to be a relatively common problem.
I *love* what I've seen of HL2 so far, but unfortunately I really can't afford to feel physically ill for the rest of the day after playing it.
You listening, Valve?
I agree that the media has a corporate bias. But I disagree that the media and entertainment industry are fundamentally "left of center"; on social issues, the American people tend to be fairly progressive.
If anything, the result of corporate-driven media is a bland, mainstream, offend-as-few-people-as-possible product.
Access to abortion (in at least some circumstances) and environmental protection laws are thoroughly mainstream "values", the results of the recent U.S. presidential election notwithstanding.
Indeed, the disconnect between the current administration's avowed legistlative agenda and the "values" of the average American is what makes this last election so... "interesting," to my mind.
> User assumes all risk and responsibility for any outcome.
I sure hope that doesn't include responsibility for brining his web server to its knees. I feel so guilty!
We can't accept the fact that Kerry lost... by 3.5 million votes.
Kerry did not lose by 3.5 million votes.
Kerry lost by ~140,000 votes -- Bush's winning margin (at the moment) in Ohio.
The popular vote means nothing. The electoral college is all.
Provisional ballots have not yet been counted in Ohio, to the final figure will differ from the above.
I had no idea Asterix was a linux geek!
How are they gonna get a brand-new, untried vehicle to run for a six-month trip each way, without multiple someones keeping an eye on things?
All they have to do is have some kind of automated assistant to keep an eye on things!
They could call it the Hybernation Assistance Lifeline.
It could do things like keep the radio antenna lined up with Earth, and manage the opening and closing of the pod bay doors.
Ahhh, shades of the Bone Fone!
Remember, kids, it's a "new concept in sound technology that may revolutionize the way we listen to stero music"!
Today's marketing wonks have nothing on their late-70s brethren.
savagely revised
What, did they revise the number with a chainsaw?
President George Bush Responds:
In little over a generation, we have witnessed the swiftest advance of freedom in the 2,500-year story of democracy. It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.
[...]
That sure looks familiar -- it's recycled from a year-old speech.
Not to mention a mostly-repeat answer from here.
And so on...
Way to go, word-processing speechwriter monkeys!
Details can be found in a preprint of the paper here.
("RTFP? I can't be bothered to RTFA!")