I disagree. The last place I worked went though some significant downsizing, such that I was able to scrounge 3 20" CRTs and suitable display cards. (a dual-head Matrox plus some ATI thing.)
Three monitors was absurd, and I ended up using two of them most of the time, and just had logs scrolling by on the third. (sometimes handy, but not worth the effort)
I'm now sitting in front of a pair of 17" 1280x1024 LCDs, and am very happy with the setup. I'm writing this on one screen while pondering the PHP code I'm working on in the vim window on the other screen.
One thought that occurred to me, as I read all the "but there's a bezel in the center" comments:
PA-RISC has been dead for almost as long as Alpha.
As to moving NonStop to Itanium (from MIPS, btw), that is a an interesting, but ultimately unimportant move. Far from the "entire server lineup", NonStop is, like AlphaServers, 9000s, and e3000s, a legacy product line. In fact, from what I can tell, they've merely ported NonStop to the Integrity platform.
The volume business is in ProLiants, more and more of which are available with Opterons.
I'm not sure if it's still online, but there was a wonderful piece of "Portfolio Positioning" that HP put up, explaining how Integrity (and thus Itanium) was The Way, and we're just making these pesky Opteron boxes for those customers that don't know any better....oh, and the customers that don't want to throw away their entire software investment when moving to 64-bit.
Good to know that Inkwell really is Rosetta (I don't have a tablet on my OSX box).
I wonder if Inkwell is still temporal rather than spatial...
Try writing TOASTER, but write the R first, then the O, and so on through ROSETTA.
The 2100 would recognize that as ROSETTA. I totally flummoxed one of the SQA guys on Rosetta by saving that as ink and showing him what the recognizer did with it.
(I think I used a different anagram, but the example serves.)
No joke. My Blaupunkt SR04 runs *hot*. Unless there's a new chipset with drastically lower power consumption, a Sirius iPod is going to require an RTG.
I'm not a real fan of 'giclee' as a term, but those of us who are serious about photography, but have moved to a digital workflow, do have a bit of an issue.
Nobody is going to take "inkjet print" seriously, yet it's evolved to a level where it *is* a serious medium.
The Start menu has both a scroll bar and a text entry field! Neither one of these are rational solutions to trying to cram everything into one @#$&%! menu.
We all make jokes about Microsoft compensating for Moore's law, but they really are doing that with screen real estate. This new UI is the most bloated thing I've ever seen. (Yeah, you can turn Aqua up that far, but it doesn't default to that)
And...please. It's 2005. Why can't Windows calculate folder sizes?
Umm, he has a lot of opinions on the subject. That is NOT the same as knowing a lot about it.
"RAW is NOT a digital negative. Unlike a real negative, it still has restricted resolution and dynamic range..."
Whereas negatives have *un*restricted resolution and dynamic range? Bzzzt.
RAW is a digital negative in that it is as close as possible to what the sensor captured.
Most of his arguments come down to the time spent waiting for the conversion process. If you can't figure out how to use one of the myriad tools out there to do a basic RAW>PSD batch conversion at least as well as the camera, (and then walk away from the computer while it works) then you should stick to wet processes.
Having the raw image is insurance. If something is wrong with a critical shot, you might be able to do a little more with the RAW than you would with a JPG.
Unless you're a sports photographer working on a deadline measured in minutes, shoot raw. Storage is cheaper than a reshoot.
...underlying metaphor of the Humanity of the writer...
Vulcanity
(been listening to the radio shows on the commute all week)
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Or properly adjust the mirrors you already have.
I commute in 5-point harnesses every day (and I've removed the 1st gen. airbag). There are submarining problems with 4-pts, but that's a different discussion.
I had exactly the blind spot problem you discussed until I adjusted my mirrors out a little bit more. Most people set up their mirrors with too much of their own car in view. I don't need a mirror to tell me my rear fenders are still there...I think there would be other cues if those suddenly went missing.
When you open up the mirrors a bit, then your blind spot is only a small area right next to your car, and you can turn your head to see that.
In fact, you should be doing that anyway...there's no reason to move your body out of position when driving, except to look out the back window while in reverse.
But the real issue has nothing to do with the number of points, it has to do with inertia reels. Any "mainstream" 4 or 5pt system would include inertia reels, rather than manual adjustments like a proper race harness. And it's those reels that give you the freedom of movement.
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You have to be kidding.
Microsoft will not walk away from being able to offer Windows for Macs.
Now, the real question is whether VMWare will be able to let you run both at once.
That might actually be the silver lining for someone who doesn't always get to choose their environment.
I disagree. The last place I worked went though some significant downsizing, such that I was able to scrounge 3 20" CRTs and suitable display cards. (a dual-head Matrox plus some ATI thing.)
Three monitors was absurd, and I ended up using two of them most of the time, and just had logs scrolling by on the third. (sometimes handy, but not worth the effort)
I'm now sitting in front of a pair of 17" 1280x1024 LCDs, and am very happy with the setup. I'm writing this on one screen while pondering the PHP code I'm working on in the vim window on the other screen.
One thought that occurred to me, as I read all the "but there's a bezel in the center" comments:
Do you remember "books"?
-Z
Yeah, I had one of the first ones, and was there at the first developer conference.
I don't think the HWX was *ever* as bad as the press made it out to be.
That was an important lesson about expectations, though.
-Z
"Written" Morse actually uses dits and dahs, and doesn't have the trailing t on mid-character dits. So the "correct" form is:
di-di-dit dah-dah-dah di-di-dit
dah-dah-di-di-dit di-di-di-dah-dah dah-di-dit dit dah-dit dah-di-di-di-dit dah-dah dah-dah-dah dah-di-dit
Actually, that was an Elan, which is an embedded x86 (roughly 486, IIRC) made by AMD.
PA-RISC has been dead for almost as long as Alpha.
As to moving NonStop to Itanium (from MIPS, btw), that is a an interesting, but ultimately unimportant move. Far from the "entire server lineup", NonStop is, like AlphaServers, 9000s, and e3000s, a legacy product line. In fact, from what I can tell, they've merely ported NonStop to the Integrity platform.
The volume business is in ProLiants, more and more of which are available with Opterons.
I'm not sure if it's still online, but there was a wonderful piece of "Portfolio Positioning" that HP put up, explaining how Integrity (and thus Itanium) was The Way, and we're just making these pesky Opteron boxes for those customers that don't know any better....oh, and the customers that don't want to throw away their entire software investment when moving to 64-bit.
Uhhh, so the above was actually written by me. That's what I get for posting from someone elses machine. :D
Good to know that Inkwell really is Rosetta (I don't have a tablet on my OSX box).
I wonder if Inkwell is still temporal rather than spatial...
Try writing TOASTER, but write the R first, then the O, and so on through ROSETTA.
The 2100 would recognize that as ROSETTA. I totally flummoxed one of the SQA guys on Rosetta by saving that as ink and showing him what the recognizer did with it.
(I think I used a different anagram, but the example serves.)
Written by someone who's never used a Newton.
The Newton (especially the 2100 running Rosetta) can read my handwriting better than most humans.
No joke. My Blaupunkt SR04 runs *hot*. Unless there's a new chipset with drastically lower power consumption, a Sirius iPod is going to require an RTG.
Too right.
I just tried to post and failed utterly.
Now you might just accept that as a normal thing, but from this side of the pond that looks rather like like "brainwashing starting in kindergarten."
As an American atheist, your custom looks pretty much the same from here.
Actually, it goes beyond Art Snobs.
I'm not a real fan of 'giclee' as a term, but those of us who are serious about photography, but have moved to a digital workflow, do have a bit of an issue.
Nobody is going to take "inkjet print" seriously, yet it's evolved to a level where it *is* a serious medium.
Since most of us weren't alive the last time this happened:
Think seriously about whether you want your apt sources list to say "testing" or "sarge"
There's no single answer to that question, if you get it wrong, it might lead to a very long day.
"WTF?" is right.
The Start menu has both a scroll bar and a text entry field! Neither one of these are rational solutions to trying to cram everything into one @#$&%! menu.
We all make jokes about Microsoft compensating for Moore's law, but they really are doing that with screen real estate. This new UI is the most bloated thing I've ever seen. (Yeah, you can turn Aqua up that far, but it doesn't default to that)
And...please. It's 2005. Why can't Windows calculate folder sizes?
Umm, he has a lot of opinions on the subject. That is NOT the same as knowing a lot about it.
"RAW is NOT a digital negative. Unlike a real negative, it still has restricted resolution and dynamic range..."
Whereas negatives have *un*restricted resolution and dynamic range? Bzzzt.
RAW is a digital negative in that it is as close as possible to what the sensor captured.
Most of his arguments come down to the time spent waiting for the conversion process. If you can't figure out how to use one of the myriad tools out there to do a basic RAW>PSD batch conversion at least as well as the camera, (and then walk away from the computer while it works) then you should stick to wet processes.
Having the raw image is insurance. If something is wrong with a critical shot, you might be able to do a little more with the RAW than you would with a JPG.
Unless you're a sports photographer working on a deadline measured in minutes, shoot raw. Storage is cheaper than a reshoot.
Sorry, I obviously need to swtich back to Firesign soon.
You weren't reading the parent too closely then...
Latex Ears?
...underlying metaphor of the Humanity of the writer...
Vulcanity
(been listening to the radio shows on the commute all week)
Or properly adjust the mirrors you already have.
I commute in 5-point harnesses every day (and I've removed the 1st gen. airbag). There are submarining problems with 4-pts, but that's a different discussion.
I had exactly the blind spot problem you discussed until I adjusted my mirrors out a little bit more. Most people set up their mirrors with too much of their own car in view. I don't need a mirror to tell me my rear fenders are still there...I think there would be other cues if those suddenly went missing.
When you open up the mirrors a bit, then your blind spot is only a small area right next to your car, and you can turn your head to see that.
In fact, you should be doing that anyway...there's no reason to move your body out of position when driving, except to look out the back window while in reverse.
But the real issue has nothing to do with the number of points, it has to do with inertia reels. Any "mainstream" 4 or 5pt system would include inertia reels, rather than manual adjustments like a proper race harness. And it's those reels that give you the freedom of movement.
The Empeg Car predated the Nomad by at least a year.
If the iPod infringes this one, there's a mountain of prior art.
And it was Burt's brother Dick who was the pilot.
Oh, this is priceless. What a gem!
Thanks, I needed that today.
-Z
Thanks. I knew it was there, but I never knew what it was for.
Actually, I think there's an eeprom on the DIMM. lmsensors can read it, for instance. Never tried writing it, though.