Surprisingly high, considering the dictatorship. Part of the problems the US is having now is that the gun culture is pretty pervasive, so hard to disarm people. Even when the soldiers do a sweep of a suspected collaborators house, they leave one gun, for protection.
The thing that scares me the most about this is the current administation's readiness to be flexible about the definition of terrorism. Have a protest on the street? Hmm, that's blocking street traffic, affecting stores. Economic terrorism. (This was a law they were trying to get passed in Oregon). Any organization in your protest take in any money from outside the US? You just became an international terrorist organization, in the eyes of the Bush administration. Very scary, especially since the other Bush administration (Jeb down in Florida) came down hard on peaceful demonstrators in Florida. Guilt by association... the protests had avery small subset people who were anarchists, and had some violent leanings. I don'tapprove of violence, and neither did many of the other protesters, who were in many cases elderly. But everyone was cuffed, and the police superintendent basically said "tough, if one's violent, they're all violent, and they should all be treated hard". Hmm, guilt by association, I wonder if we should bomb Rumsfeld since he was Saddam's friend in the 80's, or bomb Bush Sr., because he helped train Ossama.
I'm usually pretty passive as far as politics go. I vote, but that's about it. But I'm scared of the times we live in. It's time for action. This administration has led us down a scary course, but most americans are too passive. It's our responsibility to show them that their vote matters, that this administartion does thigns that affect their daily life. make people want to vote. start talking about politicians, and more importantly what we can do about them, instead of throwing up our hands and say "well, thats' in washington"
From The Three Amigos (paraphrased, I have bad memory)
*) (reading)... to battle the infamous El Guapo... *) infamous? what does that mean. *) Hmm, inflammable means something's extremely flammable, so I guess it means he's extremely famous!!!
mspaint is shipped as part of Windows XP. For bitmaps, it is the default action for "Edit" in explorer (not sure if it is still for Open - I've had too many things want to take that over). Not so ancient as dosshell.exe.
XP still comes with Program Manager (\WINDOWS\system32\progman.exe)
When they came out, pretty cool. One shop I worked at had one. Made it simple for the non-UNIX people to administer (pretty much everybody but me) but if you poked around at all under the web GUI you broke stuff. And you waited forever for patches, a security hell mitigated only partially by the fact that our Qube was a MIPS (a lot fewer script-kiddie hacks for anything non-x86). Our boss said not to compile stuff for it, void warranty, yadda yadda.
I still wanted a MIPS one for home, once NetBSD got ported to it. Finally, a real, supported OS on it. Then mini-ITX for factor machines coming everywhere. The Qube was a pioneer, never kept it's lead.
Options are good if you have specific needs that are served by the differentiation and you can make a careful analysis and pick the right one. But if you can't do this, you just sit there, try to make an educated guess, realize you have no clue, make a decision anyway, and then wonder whether you made the right decision.
For most users, they don't have any reason to choose one or the other.. They'll ask their friends, who'll tell them about licenses and C++ vs. C and programming models... none of which make any difference to end users. It will just confuse them and distract them from getting their work done.
This is just the desktop, not the apps. I'm sure they'll shit Qt libs. And I'm sure you could install KDE if you wanted too. THis is just the default.
I think you're being a bit harsh. Part of it is a lot of this crap comes from holes in software. Is someone who got rooted (can I say Administrator'ed?) because of an IE hole a moron? And before you say "patch your systems" I can say zero-day exploits and unpatched holes in IE.
But lets say thats just part of the issue, most people are running unpacthed versions of Windows, using IE (unpacthed IE, shudder). They're browsing the web because . . . they bought the computer to browse the web. They're opening email attachments because . . . attachments are made for you to open. They're using the machien for what it's designed for. They're doing what all the nice shiny pretty people in the commercials say they can do.
Closest real world analogy I can think of would be: guy comes home. Guy doesn't lock door. Robber comes in, beats guy up. Guy goes to hospital, but insurance refuses to pay because he was too stupid to lock the dorr, so go bleed somewhere else.
Would never happen. We'd just solve the problem. Even the door angle is too simplistic, for most people it would be closer to "robber comes in through grate at bottom of building that connects through shaft which goes to his room". Non obvious stuff.
The issue is computers are immature. Neither windows nor Unix were originally designed to be in a hostile network environment. UNIX has improved a lot more than Windows has, but there are still flaws. Until we redesign everything to live in a hostile world, we will have issues. Until then, it will be us morons who program the systems, and the marketing morons who sell a bill of goods that can't be delivered.
This coming from a company that used the term Internet Explorer, even though it was trademarked. Their defense: Internet Explorer is too generic a term. Yet Windows, with "window" being a term not invented by Microsoft, isn't generic.
Trademarks get strengthened by use and defending. They get weakened legally if you don't defend them. Part of Microsoft going after LinidowsOS is that they can't allow even partial weakening in this case because it may affect future products.
Ask Apple to name it. When Carl Sagan told them to rename the code name to a PowerPC mac (I think the 7100) they did, and re code-named it to BHA - Butt-Headed Astronomer.
I love my Sigma 15-30, one of my favorite lenses, and very well rated by many photography magazines, including getting Lens of the Year awards from a few. Much cheaper than any Canon equivs.
Plastic mount won't restrict anything, just make you more cautious on changing lenses often, which low end users are unlikely to do much. Very low end Canons have plastic mounts. Anything above the (discontinued) Rebel 2000 has metal mount, just like the Nikons do. I agree with "what feels natural". If you don't like the cmaera, you won't use it, no matter Nikon, Canon, Mamiya, Leica...
300 - Rebel 2000 300V - Rebel Ti 300D - Digital Rebel
Every Canon camera made in the last 10 years or so (so worth buying used) has the EF all electronic mount. This means lenses will work as long as the back of the lens doesn't extend too far. Some lenses go so far back in they interfere with some mechanics. There are some third party compatibility issues for companies who reverse engineer the mount instead of licensing it. Sigma lenses tend to have issues with new camera models.
I've found Canon lenses tend to be cheaper than Nikons, especially for high tech things like USM focussing (Ultrasonic Wave for Nikon folks). Depends on where you go I guess. Saying "I got two lenses for the price of one" is like saying "I got two cars for the price of one" without mentioning the two cars were Hyundais and the 1 car was a Bentley. The N80 is more equivalent to an EOS 30 (Elan 7) rather than an EOS 300 (Rebel 2000, much cheaper than Elan).
Canon Rebel 2000 has a plastic ring, Rebel Ti and Rebel K2 (if it ever gets released) have metal. The new bodies have vastly improved ergonomics and give the N65 a run for it's money.
Best thing to do is hold the camera and feel it. My choice of E7 over N80 was basically about how it felt in my hand. I have to be comfortable holding it if I want to take pics.
RedHat? What about Ford? Silly them to EOL supporting the Model T. Now where the hell am I going to get a pistons for a 177CU 22 HP motor? Now how the hell can I top out at 30MPH?
Most cameras are competitive with each other. The big boys always introduce cameras that more or less compete directly with cameras from the other companies. Witness the Elan 7 and N80 coming out at right about the same time. And also, with SLRs, you buy into a system. Remember that lenses and accessories are not compatible across marques.
This leads me to: if you have a close friend or family member with an SLR, get one in the same family. The ability to share lenses and gear with them will generally override any small differences between cameras.
If you don't have anyone, then I'd say pick up a cheap Nikon or Canon. My opinion (flame wars begone) is that the greater ability to rent and borrow matching equipment negates any differences in bodies. Every 3rd party lens has Nikon and Canon EF mounts available.
Don't think of the body. The body is just a lens holder. You may go through multiple, or want a backup body. Get a 50mm lens, preferably as your first lens. Good for low light, good cheap lens so spend more money on film. Lack of zoom makes you move around instead of cheating with the zoom. You'll get different pictures as you learn to move and change angles.
Right now, I'd probably pick the N65 or N55 if you like Nikon, or the Rebel Ti or the Rebel K2 (don't hink the K2 is generally available yet) if you';re a canon guy. A Rebel GII with 50MM lens should cost you around $200, fairly low technology, but about as much as you'd pay for a low end point and shoot.
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Surprisingly high, considering the dictatorship. Part of the problems the US is having now is that the gun culture is pretty pervasive, so hard to disarm people. Even when the soldiers do a sweep of a suspected collaborators house, they leave one gun, for protection.
The thing that scares me the most about this is the current administation's readiness to be flexible about the definition of terrorism. Have a protest on the street? Hmm, that's blocking street traffic, affecting stores. Economic terrorism. (This was a law they were trying to get passed in Oregon). Any organization in your protest take in any money from outside the US? You just became an international terrorist organization, in the eyes of the Bush administration. Very scary, especially since the other Bush administration (Jeb down in Florida) came down hard on peaceful demonstrators in Florida. Guilt by association... the protests had avery small subset people who were anarchists, and had some violent leanings. I don'tapprove of violence, and neither did many of the other protesters, who were in many cases elderly. But everyone was cuffed, and the police superintendent basically said "tough, if one's violent, they're all violent, and they should all be treated hard". Hmm, guilt by association, I wonder if we should bomb Rumsfeld since he was Saddam's friend in the 80's, or bomb Bush Sr., because he helped train Ossama.
I'm usually pretty passive as far as politics go. I vote, but that's about it. But I'm scared of the times we live in. It's time for action. This administration has led us down a scary course, but most americans are too passive. It's our responsibility to show them that their vote matters, that this administartion does thigns that affect their daily life. make people want to vote. start talking about politicians, and more importantly what we can do about them, instead of throwing up our hands and say "well, thats' in washington"
From The Three Amigos (paraphrased, I have bad memory)
... to battle the infamous El Guapo...
*) (reading)
*) infamous? what does that mean.
*) Hmm, inflammable means something's extremely flammable, so I guess it means he's extremely famous!!!
Could be true. Not sure if many slashdot geeks can understand "being in shape" and "physical labor"
***ducks***
Not only that, it used tthe 640LC040, which didn't have a FPU. Not sure how many problems which require clustering don't require an FPU
but a grid of a hundred EMacs was a pretty good start to a mini-supercomputer I was told.
emacs created a super-computer? I thought emacs required a supercomputer... or was that xemacs...?
Thank you, I'll be here all week...
I knew this was the wrong day to stop breathing
-- (bad Airplane! joke)
mspaint is shipped as part of Windows XP. For bitmaps, it is the default action for "Edit" in explorer (not sure if it is still for Open - I've had too many things want to take that over). Not so ancient as dosshell.exe.
XP still comes with Program Manager (\WINDOWS\system32\progman.exe)
When they came out, pretty cool. One shop I worked at had one. Made it simple for the non-UNIX people to administer (pretty much everybody but me) but if you poked around at all under the web GUI you broke stuff. And you waited forever for patches, a security hell mitigated only partially by the fact that our Qube was a MIPS (a lot fewer script-kiddie hacks for anything non-x86). Our boss said not to compile stuff for it, void warranty, yadda yadda.
I still wanted a MIPS one for home, once NetBSD got ported to it. Finally, a real, supported OS on it. Then mini-ITX for factor machines coming everywhere. The Qube was a pioneer, never kept it's lead.
"There is no problem in computer science that cannot be solved by adding another layer of indirection..."
". . . except for too many layers of indirection."
-- addendum (possibly by a Java or C# programmer).
Perl, not the HURD
Options are good if you have specific needs that are served by the differentiation and you can make a careful analysis and pick the right one. But if you can't do this, you just sit there, try to make an educated guess, realize you have no clue, make a decision anyway, and then wonder whether you made the right decision.
For most users, they don't have any reason to choose one or the other.. They'll ask their friends, who'll tell them about licenses and C++ vs. C and programming models... none of which make any difference to end users. It will just confuse them and distract them from getting their work done.
This is just the desktop, not the apps. I'm sure they'll shit Qt libs. And I'm sure you could install KDE if you wanted too. THis is just the default.
I think you're being a bit harsh. Part of it is a lot of this crap comes from holes in software. Is someone who got rooted (can I say Administrator'ed?) because of an IE hole a moron? And before you say "patch your systems" I can say zero-day exploits and unpatched holes in IE.
But lets say thats just part of the issue, most people are running unpacthed versions of Windows, using IE (unpacthed IE, shudder). They're browsing the web because . . . they bought the computer to browse the web. They're opening email attachments because . . . attachments are made for you to open. They're using the machien for what it's designed for. They're doing what all the nice shiny pretty people in the commercials say they can do.
Closest real world analogy I can think of would be:
guy comes home. Guy doesn't lock door. Robber comes in, beats guy up. Guy goes to hospital, but insurance refuses to pay because he was too stupid to lock the dorr, so go bleed somewhere else.
Would never happen. We'd just solve the problem. Even the door angle is too simplistic, for most people it would be closer to "robber comes in through grate at bottom of building that connects through shaft which goes to his room". Non obvious stuff.
The issue is computers are immature. Neither windows nor Unix were originally designed to be in a hostile network environment. UNIX has improved a lot more than Windows has, but there are still flaws. Until we redesign everything to live in a hostile world, we will have issues. Until then, it will be us morons who program the systems, and the marketing morons who sell a bill of goods that can't be delivered.
RMS would like to personally thank you for using CVS instead of BitKeeper(TM) Pharmacy down the street.
This coming from a company that used the term Internet Explorer, even though it was trademarked. Their defense: Internet Explorer is too generic a term. Yet Windows, with "window" being a term not invented by Microsoft, isn't generic.
Trademarks get strengthened by use and defending. They get weakened legally if you don't defend them. Part of Microsoft going after LinidowsOS is that they can't allow even partial weakening in this case because it may affect future products.
Ask Apple to name it. When Carl Sagan told them to rename the code name to a PowerPC mac (I think the 7100) they did, and re code-named it to BHA - Butt-Headed Astronomer.
... so shouldn't it be a DR-DOS attack?
Hello, is this mike on.. hello....
I love my Sigma 15-30, one of my favorite lenses, and very well rated by many photography magazines, including getting Lens of the Year awards from a few. Much cheaper than any Canon equivs.
Plastic mount won't restrict anything, just make you more cautious on changing lenses often, which low end users are unlikely to do much. Very low end Canons have plastic mounts. Anything above the (discontinued) Rebel 2000 has metal mount, just like the Nikons do. I agree with "what feels natural". If you don't like the cmaera, you won't use it, no matter Nikon, Canon, Mamiya, Leica...
300 - Rebel 2000
300V - Rebel Ti
300D - Digital Rebel
Every Canon camera made in the last 10 years or so (so worth buying used) has the EF all electronic mount. This means lenses will work as long as the back of the lens doesn't extend too far. Some lenses go so far back in they interfere with some mechanics. There are some third party compatibility issues for companies who reverse engineer the mount instead of licensing it. Sigma lenses tend to have issues with new camera models.
I've found Canon lenses tend to be cheaper than Nikons, especially for high tech things like USM focussing (Ultrasonic Wave for Nikon folks). Depends on where you go I guess. Saying "I got two lenses for the price of one" is like saying "I got two cars for the price of one" without mentioning the two cars were Hyundais and the 1 car was a Bentley. The N80 is more equivalent to an EOS 30 (Elan 7) rather than an EOS 300 (Rebel 2000, much cheaper than Elan).
Canon Rebel 2000 has a plastic ring, Rebel Ti and Rebel K2 (if it ever gets released) have metal. The new bodies have vastly improved ergonomics and give the N65 a run for it's money.
Best thing to do is hold the camera and feel it. My choice of E7 over N80 was basically about how it felt in my hand. I have to be comfortable holding it if I want to take pics.
Canon 1D has a full frame which some people feel is very close to film though definitely not in his price range.
RedHat? What about Ford? Silly them to EOL supporting the Model T. Now where the hell am I going to get a pistons for a 177CU 22 HP motor? Now how the hell can I top out at 30MPH?
Though this probably should be asked elsewhere...
Most cameras are competitive with each other. The big boys always introduce cameras that more or less compete directly with cameras from the other companies. Witness the Elan 7 and N80 coming out at right about the same time.
And also, with SLRs, you buy into a system. Remember that lenses and accessories are not compatible across marques.
This leads me to: if you have a close friend or family member with an SLR, get one in the same family. The ability to share lenses and gear with them will generally override any small differences between cameras.
If you don't have anyone, then I'd say pick up a cheap Nikon or Canon. My opinion (flame wars begone) is that the greater ability to rent and borrow matching equipment negates any differences in bodies. Every 3rd party lens has Nikon and Canon EF mounts available.
Don't think of the body. The body is just a lens holder. You may go through multiple, or want a backup body. Get a 50mm lens, preferably as your first lens. Good for low light, good cheap lens so spend more money on film. Lack of zoom makes you move around instead of cheating with the zoom. You'll get different pictures as you learn to move and change angles.
Right now, I'd probably pick the N65 or N55 if you like Nikon, or the Rebel Ti or the Rebel K2 (don't hink the K2 is generally available yet) if you';re a canon guy. A Rebel GII with 50MM lens should cost you around $200, fairly low technology, but about as much as you'd pay for a low end point and shoot.
Why is an unrelated slashback entry in the Apache section, yet this didn't make it? Editors, anyone?