im sure a real photographer would be much happier with a headline like, Cannon develops new camera which improves color accuracy, or a camera which can take more than 8 pictures per second. these cameras will have worse image quality than 3-4 megapixel cameras on regular sized prints. (in brief the higher the resolution given a constant image area in the camera the smaller the recievers, the less light the reciever gets. noise is constant for a single reciever so the less light the less signal. ie less accurate pixels) about the only thing this is usefull for would be that it allows for very large prints, then again who's ever heard of a professional photographer printing a digital image in large format? the technology's just not there yet. for the time being ill stick to good ole silver nitrates and developer.
This just reinforces my opinion that that case is the best case on earth. I cant understand why everyone's shouting for apple to change it, in my opinion if it aint broke dont fix it.
This is way off topic but Im going to mention it none the less becuase so many of the posts are talking about how expensive macs are so I thought I should at least broach the subject. Just about every major study which comes out points out that macs have about half the cost of ownership to a business than equivalant PCs (usualy compared to windows PCs) this is because 1 tech support costs are dramaticly lower, and 2 macs tend to be used longer opposed to most PCs which companies throw out after three years. This isnt my opinion or a personal anecdote, this is what these same profesionals are saying. so im sure there are many reasons why macs arent used in business (key apps like MS access being one) but if an IT department is looking at cost of ownership its not true that macs are more expensive.
I can think of one good reason why this isnt a good idea. As still digital cameras push the limits of how many megapixles they can fit into an image some profesionals are noticing an interesting problem. at a certain point, adding more resolution to a camera actualy decreases the image quality. THat's because when you decrease the size of the sensor which records the data for a pixel in a camera you decrease the amount of light that will hit that sensor.
This means that the signal to noise ratio for each sensor goes up. At 3 megapixels you wont see any degredation from this but as the resolution increases youre going to see more and more loss of acuracy and less acurate images. now this is for a camera which takes photo's at the equivalent of 50 ISO (1/50th of a second) if you want a camera that takes images at 12000 images per second that means each image has to be captured in about 1/36000th of a second, or 720 times faster, or 1/720 of the light will hit each pixel. inorder to maintain acuracy at that speed youre going to have to drop down the resolution to 4000 pixels per image (100x40?) inorder to maintain image quality.
This is the first intelligent thing ive heard said about the whole issue. the blurb on slashdot makes it sound like everyone involved just got cushy packages and shuffled around to sweep the whole thing under the table that's completely untrue. The fact is that two people's lives were ruined by this and in alot of people's opinion what they did was a mistake NOT a crime. LeMeneger wasnt moved to an undisclosed new position, he was reasigned to the communications office. basicly he was demoted several levels and that's the end of his career in the admissions office. Harganon who has worked his ass off for 40 years to try and get not only the brightest but also the most interesting and able students no matter what their background has been forced out of a job which has basicly been his whole life for a long time. This for TWICE disclosing to yale admissions staff that site was unsecure before any investigation was started. If you read the full report youll realize that when the fact that the site was easy to access was brought up at the meeting NOT ONE PERSON mentioned the impropriety of what LeMeneger did but instead they discussed how security is really important for a site like the one yale threw up.
I know im not impartial but im glad that some people arent going to just jump on this becuase of the it's princeton so therefor the elietist bastards got what they deserve argument.
Great, i fully expect the bush administration to put out new commercials linking diamond sales to terrorism and urging all "true" americans to stay clear of them. I mean they did the same thing with pot without one proven link between marijuana sales and terrorist organizations.
If they had only released this version of the movie the outcry would be..
"WTF such a great movie and it only gets an average DVD, this is another example of the movie industry not putting effort into less mainstream movies while true art like this is overlooked."
If they only released the movie in november...
"What the hell it took them that long to create the DVD? look i could have done that in three weeks from my basement with my computer which i built myself AND Id be making the world a better place by using linux at the same time."
My advice? rent now, buy later. options arent always a bad thing
Call me old fasion and naiive but this is just impossible without even taking into account the fact that many people would just plain prefer books in dead tree format. to quote information from my school librarie's website "The combined collections total more than six million printed works, five million manuscripts and two million nonprint items, and increase at the rate of about 10,000 volumes a month." now lets say half of those are out of print (its probably closer to 90%) thats 3 million books which the publisher sure as hell isnt going to put into ebook format. putting those books in some sort of reasonable digital format (one which allows for illustrations, holds the original layout of the text and allows for searches) would be a staggering project.
I cant see this being done very well at all unless they have a collection the size of a small public library, and even then it wouldnt be cost effective.
Well I think you seem to have made an error in your assesment of what "Princeton" wants. The arrogant kid who writes those articles is even less representative of the admisions office as they are of the rest of the student body. I dont give a fuck if princeton rejects ten thousand more students, im more interested in having bright interesting people as classmates and id bet 9 out of 10 people here would agree with me. likewise the admissions office's job is to create a intelligent well rounded student body, not to pump up numbers. of course they have some numbers that they are pressured to follow, such as percent of alumni kids accepted and athletic admissions, but their goal isnt to make princeton seem selective. In fact there are studies which show that the selectivness of ivy leauge schools deters minority students from even applying. That is quite obviously not something that princeton wants.
so thanks for your analysis and we all know its fun to misrepresent princeton students because everyones already so biased that you can say whatever you want and theyll believe you. But next time id rather you didnt take a few articles youve read by some idiotic prince staff writer and present them as my point of view.
"[accessing the site] could have provided informational advantage to Princeton beyond just whether a student was accepted or rejected," The editor in chief of The Yale Daily News, Chris Michel said. "As a student, it's especially disturbing to find that a university would exploit information like this. We put a lot of trust in universities."
I cant say that im unbiased but this looks alot like a stupid but completely unmolitious decision which the yale daily is using to get some press.
The facts support the asertion that princeton did gain access to the site only to test the security of hte web page, i mean 18 attempts 11 student accounts accessed? this isnt exactly a massive example of data mining to give princeton a competetive advantage. It makes more sense to me that someone was probably like hmm i wonder how secure yales site is, and after a cursory glance realized that he could access the pages with information on file.
Also from a personal standpoint the people involved really arent the types to try and cheat lie or steal for anything, let alone to gain a slight advantage over a small handful of students. Take that with a grain of salt if you want, like i said im not unbiased.
In related news the university has also been sued by the RIAA. In a writen statment the spokesman for the RIAA said "Of course were sueing What the hell else do you think theyll use that network for besides stealing our intelectual property."
This suit is the first in a series of legal actions that the RIAA hopes will solve the P2P dilema. The longterm goal of the law suits is to return everyone to 9600kbps modems or as the same spokesman was quoted saying "If users cant handel the responsibility that comes with a broadband connection we'll have to limit it to corpate america, the last bastion of trust and integrity in america today."
"Looks like good old Steve is back to his old self:-)"
exactly what thats supposed to mean is beyond me. There are good reasons to sue people you know. one of them being if your company signs an exclusive deal with another company for a product then that company turns around and sells the product to a competitor.
I think this was a decision to use the crypt (that might not be the name) algorithm over the more modern MD5 (again im not sure those are the right algorithms but its not relavent to the argument) while the first is limited to 8 characters ( you can have longer passwords, but you only need the first 8 to log in) it takes significantly more cycles to use therefor brute force attacks on short passwords take longer time, since most users dont have passwords longer than 8 characters anyway it makes sense for a consumer OS to use the former rather than the later seeing as 95% of passwords will be more secure with the more expensive algorithm because they dont take advantage of the extra length the more modern one provides.
at least i remember this being hte official explanation from apple, ill draw my own conclusion after a couple more semesters of algorithm lectures....
if it's true i take my hat off to apple for going for real security over the bigger numbers are better public theory.
well i intended that as a joke to poke fun at the fact that people imply that by using a mac you were automaticly some sort of sensless fanatic. but my apologies if anyone misunderstood
Im sure we can get together a mob of angry macslash users right? i mean mac users are always refered to as zealots and a cult, well what's a cult without a militant arm?
I believe that USB 2.0 will tax the cpu more due to it's master/slave setup. which isnt a big deal but hey why waste the extra cycles if firewire also provides the technical advantages everyone else has already mentioned.
It's interesting to note that intel the company that developed the USB standard infact has a vested intrest in it being a performace hog (more incentive to buy those fast pentium processors) just food for thought.
I have visited germany i lived there for a year about 4 years ago and im going back for a couple months in four weeks. Although i dont have specific numbers youre figures arent unreasonable about fatality rate but look at the number of accidents or injuries and the ratio is much lower than in the states. how many broken down tauruses or SUVs or hundayi elantras with horride security do you see. Many germans drive bigger cars that generaly are safer than their american counterparts, so if you get in an accident it's less likely to be fatal. in regards to car to car accidents on highways those arent usualy the ones you have to worry about it's usualy the ones where you lose control of your vehicle and hit something solid like a tree or a bridge or better yet a stationary car that already had an accident in front of you. The energy in those collisions is still 90 miles per hour and unlike hitting another car head on the cement support column in a bridge doesnt give any ground.
Second youre right again that most accidents happen around town i think the percent is in the low 80sbut then again the percent of time spent driving on residential roads is in the mid 90s. 20 percent of road accidents come during five percent of the driving time.
Finaly the poster who responded to you hit mentioned the central piece of my argument when he said taht with this new standard speed limits would either be eliminated or drasticly raised. If it's safe to drive at 150 with poor visibility then lets make it legal to do so. If not then lets figure out what should be legal and not set the speed limit 30 miles below that.
I dont know about any of the other implications of this device but I would be extatic to replace the whole, 5-to-10-miles-over-is-sortof-accepted-by-the-cops- so-long-as-their-in-a-good-mood look at speed limits. If speeds cars were monitored every minute that you were driving the assholes that think they can handle their car going 90 down the turnpike would either stop or be arrested. and the rest of us could travel safely at 70-75 without worrying about getting a ticket for going 4 miles over teh speed limit.
It seems that all this means is that theyre going to shift the athlons into the low end position of their market and use the hammer class chips to fill the high end void. It's just a matter of naming convention and of course getting an extra $5 per low end chip for name value.
This is just a ploy to boost up the airline industry. Im personaly going to buy some US airway stock and watch it skyrocket as millions of people start buying tickets to leave the country.
I dont pretend my experience is typical but since day one when i installed os X (actually a couple weeks prior to day 1... dont worry i then paid for it when it went on sale) I have had a grand total of 0 kernel panics on my beautiful little iMac(400MHz)
that is quite an achievement for apple.
The first beta releases of os x happily coincided with my growing interest in programming. and it was this fortuitous timing that saved me from switching over to linux (which i now use on a server) for me OS X is 100% perfect even with it's little quirks it's the perfect combination of digital media/ office production goodness mixed with an oh so tastey command line interface. i would still be satisfied with this OS if apple froze development and never released another version (well maybe 10.2 would be nice)
So to end this random blabering i say kudo's to apple keep up the good work.
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because i enjoy seeing that vein on your forehead bulge.
im sure a real photographer would be much happier with a headline like, Cannon develops new camera which improves color accuracy, or a camera which can take more than 8 pictures per second. these cameras will have worse image quality than 3-4 megapixel cameras on regular sized prints. (in brief the higher the resolution given a constant image area in the camera the smaller the recievers, the less light the reciever gets. noise is constant for a single reciever so the less light the less signal. ie less accurate pixels) about the only thing this is usefull for would be that it allows for very large prints, then again who's ever heard of a professional photographer printing a digital image in large format? the technology's just not there yet. for the time being ill stick to good ole silver nitrates and developer.
This just reinforces my opinion that that case is the best case on earth. I cant understand why everyone's shouting for apple to change it, in my opinion if it aint broke dont fix it.
This is way off topic but Im going to mention it none the less becuase so many of the posts are talking about how expensive macs are so I thought I should at least broach the subject. Just about every major study which comes out points out that macs have about half the cost of ownership to a business than equivalant PCs (usualy compared to windows PCs) this is because 1 tech support costs are dramaticly lower, and 2 macs tend to be used longer opposed to most PCs which companies throw out after three years. This isnt my opinion or a personal anecdote, this is what these same profesionals are saying. so im sure there are many reasons why macs arent used in business (key apps like MS access being one) but if an IT department is looking at cost of ownership its not true that macs are more expensive.
I can think of one good reason why this isnt a good idea. As still digital cameras push the limits of how many megapixles they can fit into an image some profesionals are noticing an interesting problem. at a certain point, adding more resolution to a camera actualy decreases the image quality. THat's because when you decrease the size of the sensor which records the data for a pixel in a camera you decrease the amount of light that will hit that sensor.
This means that the signal to noise ratio for each sensor goes up. At 3 megapixels you wont see any degredation from this but as the resolution increases youre going to see more and more loss of acuracy and less acurate images. now this is for a camera which takes photo's at the equivalent of 50 ISO (1/50th of a second) if you want a camera that takes images at 12000 images per second that means each image has to be captured in about 1/36000th of a second, or 720 times faster, or 1/720 of the light will hit each pixel. inorder to maintain acuracy at that speed youre going to have to drop down the resolution to 4000 pixels per image (100x40?) inorder to maintain image quality.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
This is the first intelligent thing ive heard said about the whole issue. the blurb on slashdot makes it sound like everyone involved just got cushy packages and shuffled around to sweep the whole thing under the table that's completely untrue. The fact is that two people's lives were ruined by this and in alot of people's opinion what they did was a mistake NOT a crime. LeMeneger wasnt moved to an undisclosed new position, he was reasigned to the communications office. basicly he was demoted several levels and that's the end of his career in the admissions office. Harganon who has worked his ass off for 40 years to try and get not only the brightest but also the most interesting and able students no matter what their background has been forced out of a job which has basicly been his whole life for a long time. This for TWICE disclosing to yale admissions staff that site was unsecure before any investigation was started. If you read the full report youll realize that when the fact that the site was easy to access was brought up at the meeting NOT ONE PERSON mentioned the impropriety of what LeMeneger did but instead they discussed how security is really important for a site like the one yale threw up.
I know im not impartial but im glad that some people arent going to just jump on this becuase of the it's princeton so therefor the elietist bastards got what they deserve argument.
Great, i fully expect the bush administration to put out new commercials linking diamond sales to terrorism and urging all "true" americans to stay clear of them. I mean they did the same thing with pot without one proven link between marijuana sales and terrorist organizations.
"WTF such a great movie and it only gets an average DVD, this is another example of the movie industry not putting effort into less mainstream movies while true art like this is overlooked."
If they only released the movie in november...
"What the hell it took them that long to create the DVD? look i could have done that in three weeks from my basement with my computer which i built myself AND Id be making the world a better place by using linux at the same time."
My advice? rent now, buy later. options arent always a bad thing
I cant see this being done very well at all unless they have a collection the size of a small public library, and even then it wouldnt be cost effective.
Well I think you seem to have made an error in your assesment of what "Princeton" wants. The arrogant kid who writes those articles is even less representative of the admisions office as they are of the rest of the student body. I dont give a fuck if princeton rejects ten thousand more students, im more interested in having bright interesting people as classmates and id bet 9 out of 10 people here would agree with me. likewise the admissions office's job is to create a intelligent well rounded student body, not to pump up numbers. of course they have some numbers that they are pressured to follow, such as percent of alumni kids accepted and athletic admissions, but their goal isnt to make princeton seem selective. In fact there are studies which show that the selectivness of ivy leauge schools deters minority students from even applying. That is quite obviously not something that princeton wants.
so thanks for your analysis and we all know its fun to misrepresent princeton students because everyones already so biased that you can say whatever you want and theyll believe you. But next time id rather you didnt take a few articles youve read by some idiotic prince staff writer and present them as my point of view.
Let the bullshit grandstanding begin...
"[accessing the site] could have provided informational advantage to Princeton beyond just whether a student was accepted or rejected," The editor in chief of The Yale Daily News, Chris Michel said. "As a student, it's especially disturbing to find that a university would exploit information like this. We put a lot of trust in universities."
I cant say that im unbiased but this looks alot like a stupid but completely unmolitious decision which the yale daily is using to get some press.
The facts support the asertion that princeton did gain access to the site only to test the security of hte web page, i mean 18 attempts 11 student accounts accessed? this isnt exactly a massive example of data mining to give princeton a competetive advantage. It makes more sense to me that someone was probably like hmm i wonder how secure yales site is, and after a cursory glance realized that he could access the pages with information on file.
Also from a personal standpoint the people involved really arent the types to try and cheat lie or steal for anything, let alone to gain a slight advantage over a small handful of students. Take that with a grain of salt if you want, like i said im not unbiased.
oops, chalk that one up to lack of sleep.
In related news the university has also been sued by the RIAA. In a writen statment the spokesman for the RIAA said "Of course were sueing What the hell else do you think theyll use that network for besides stealing our intelectual property."
This suit is the first in a series of legal actions that the RIAA hopes will solve the P2P dilema. The longterm goal of the law suits is to return everyone to 9600kbps modems or as the same spokesman was quoted saying "If users cant handel the responsibility that comes with a broadband connection we'll have to limit it to corpate america, the last bastion of trust and integrity in america today."
"Looks like good old Steve is back to his old self :-)"
exactly what thats supposed to mean is beyond me. There are good reasons to sue people you know. one of them being if your company signs an exclusive deal with another company for a product then that company turns around and sells the product to a competitor.
oh wait! thats what happened in this case.
wow this is a new low, slashdotters not only dont read the linked material they also refuse to read the three sentences that are describing the story.
I think this was a decision to use the crypt (that might not be the name) algorithm over the more modern MD5 (again im not sure those are the right algorithms but its not relavent to the argument) while the first is limited to 8 characters ( you can have longer passwords, but you only need the first 8 to log in) it takes significantly more cycles to use therefor brute force attacks on short passwords take longer time, since most users dont have passwords longer than 8 characters anyway it makes sense for a consumer OS to use the former rather than the later seeing as 95% of passwords will be more secure with the more expensive algorithm because they dont take advantage of the extra length the more modern one provides.
at least i remember this being hte official explanation from apple, ill draw my own conclusion after a couple more semesters of algorithm lectures....
if it's true i take my hat off to apple for going for real security over the bigger numbers are better public theory.
well i intended that as a joke to poke fun at the fact that people imply that by using a mac you were automaticly some sort of sensless fanatic. but my apologies if anyone misunderstood
Im sure we can get together a mob of angry macslash users right? i mean mac users are always refered to as zealots and a cult, well what's a cult without a militant arm?
there just aint no justice like mob justice.
I believe that USB 2.0 will tax the cpu more due to it's master/slave setup. which isnt a big deal but hey why waste the extra cycles if firewire also provides the technical advantages everyone else has already mentioned.
It's interesting to note that intel the company that developed the USB standard infact has a vested intrest in it being a performace hog (more incentive to buy those fast pentium processors) just food for thought.
Isnt this the third sign of the apocolyps?
Second youre right again that most accidents happen around town i think the percent is in the low 80sbut then again the percent of time spent driving on residential roads is in the mid 90s. 20 percent of road accidents come during five percent of the driving time.
Finaly the poster who responded to you hit mentioned the central piece of my argument when he said taht with this new standard speed limits would either be eliminated or drasticly raised. If it's safe to drive at 150 with poor visibility then lets make it legal to do so. If not then lets figure out what should be legal and not set the speed limit 30 miles below that.
I dont know about any of the other implications of this device but I would be extatic to replace the whole, 5-to-10-miles-over-is-sortof-accepted-by-the-cops- so-long-as-their-in-a-good-mood look at speed limits. If speeds cars were monitored every minute that you were driving the assholes that think they can handle their car going 90 down the turnpike would either stop or be arrested. and the rest of us could travel safely at 70-75 without worrying about getting a ticket for going 4 miles over teh speed limit.
It seems that all this means is that theyre going to shift the athlons into the low end position of their market and use the hammer class chips to fill the high end void. It's just a matter of naming convention and of course getting an extra $5 per low end chip for name value.
This is just a ploy to boost up the airline industry. Im personaly going to buy some US airway stock and watch it skyrocket as millions of people start buying tickets to leave the country.
that is quite an achievement for apple.
The first beta releases of os x happily coincided with my growing interest in programming. and it was this fortuitous timing that saved me from switching over to linux (which i now use on a server) for me OS X is 100% perfect even with it's little quirks it's the perfect combination of digital media/ office production goodness mixed with an oh so tastey command line interface. i would still be satisfied with this OS if apple froze development and never released another version (well maybe 10.2 would be nice)
So to end this random blabering i say kudo's to apple keep up the good work.