This explanation doesn't quite do it for me. When I saw the moon tonight, it looked like it was 2 or 3 of it's own size above the horizon. If I then pointed my camera at it, it looked about a couple of dozen of its own (tiny) size above the horizon.
Both cases, the relative sizes/locations of the horizon/moon should have been the same, whether it's my eyes or the camera.
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People who expect word processor documents to be to-the-pixel identical on different machines are on crack. What if the recipient of your document uses a different paper size than you (eg letter vs A4)?
I call BS on this. On different papers, yes, the layouts would be different. And that's what a word processor is for, in general, rendering something onto paper. If a Linux and a Windows version of the same word processor (or format) were showing a document for printing on 8.5x11 paper, there's no reason they shouldn't show exactly the same layout of the items on the "virtual paper" before the printing occurs. To have it otherwise is disconcerting.
That's why the page format is stored in the document; this document was intended for letter; this document intended for A4. Put the right stock in the printer, and you should get consistent results.
Having OpenOffice render opened word documents differently from Word, is a problem; it's getting a *lot* better at that, thankfully.
The whole firewall thing always seemed to be a bit sad to me. There really is nothing that a firewall should be able to do, that a properly designed and configurable TCP/IP stack shouldn't be able to do itself. They really do seem to be a band-aid solution to something that should happen at an operating system TCP/IP stack level.
If you're not listening on most ports, but the ones you are listening on are well behaved, throttled, resistant to malformed connections, a firewall should be so unnecessary.
I have a Panasonic SV-AV100 (tapeless, digital, tiny)... I just love it, goes with me everywhere, quality is amazing. (The SV-AV50 that you can find at Radio Shack and such, is a bit of a toy, avoid that oen.)
I truly believe that Panasonic is the best kept secret in the consumer electronics world. They are the only single brand, that I've *never* had a problem with, and whose products I have always been 100% pleased. They have never let me down.
They don't seem to get the hype or advertise as much as Sony and friends, but I've had lemons from pretty much every other brand, and will stick to Panasonic where I can.
I actually talked to an airline pilot who flew in both North America and in Japan, and he indicated that the same model planes are actually configured differently between Japan airlines and North American airlines, to fit more people in, since in general, they do take up less space.
Whether Japanese people are generally genetically more slight in build (sumo wrestlers excluded), or Americans generally have more overweight people, it is interesting nonetheless. (Or maybe the Japanese are just being more efficient at the expense of comfort.)
While it sounds cool, and I'm sure they are good, any group of 11 meals that you eat day after day, is going to become tiresome after an extended period. One would hope they will be able to have variations and other new meals beyond those.
Perhaps one of the reasons that VHS is hanging on for awhile, is that most modern DVD players (which cost less than many DVD's), only have video out; a lot of perfectly good televisions (cheap ones, granted) that still work fine, do not have video in, only coax in. And RF converters can cost the same or up to 2x as much as the DVD unit itself.
Yes, TV's are cheap now, too; but replacing a TV just to watch DVD's is another barrier.
That being said, it's hard to imagine VHS being around for another 5 years. With DVD recorders becoming more prevalent, and undoubtedly soon dropping dramatically in price, the last functional advantage of VHS (cheap, quick, and easy recording) will have been equalled by DVD.
Imagine all the 'hard' work teachers, parents and guidance counselors put into brainwashing every kid that he/she must go to University."
Give me a break. And all the brainwashing our parents to do tell us that attending school is a good idea (even the draconian approach of legally requiring it!!!) And the brainwashing that bathing regularly and dental hygiene are good ideas. Imagine!
Honestly, encouraging kids to gets as much education as they can, can hardly be seen as a mind control technique, by anyone but the tinfoil hat crowd.
While I respect jobs, and certainly different modes of learning work for different people, I think that as a role model, he should be more careful about saying such things.
(It could be argued that occasionally "dropping in" to classes is how I went through University, somewhat successfully, but that's another story.)
Anyhow, dropping out and learning on your own may work for some people, with the right thirst for knowledge, insatiable curiousity, and maybe even some financial means behind them (mom & dad supporting them longer while they find themselves or get a biz off the ground); but for many average people, it's a ticket to a lifetime working the gas pumps.
It always amazes me what a big deal is made of "start up times." Who cares? If you spend more time starting up an application, than sitting there, effectively using it, then you're not a real user of the application, but just toying with it. In many cases, loading more stuff upon startup, will make operation of an application more peppy.
The same people that go on and on about start up times, don't seem to bitch too much (or maybe they do), about modern day games, where one seems to spend most of their time "Loading..." I find some of the best games today almost unusuable because of the loading delays; it really blows the ambiance for me.
I recently wrote two reporst, in in Word, one in OpenOffice; the main reason I used OpenOffice for the latter, was that I needed semi-visio-like functionaltiy, which Word/PowerPoint did not provide, and OpenOffice's Draw did.
In doing so, I found OpenOffice was the better experience overall. Crashes: Word 2, Open Office 2. Seems to be better functionality in OpenOffice as well, or at least things are more logically structured.
I think OpenOffice's time has come, or at least will be over the next few years.
It almost seems a bit of a pen-and-paper approach, but I use spreadsheets for my TODO lists. I used to use Pocket PC's Tasks to do this, and the equivalent tool on the Palm, but I found the categories and priorities too limiting.
So now I use Pocket Excel on my PDA (which interacts nicely with Office and StarOffice and such). I make up a little spread sheet, have tabs (sheets) for each major category (home, work, etc.), and customized columns as I need them (date due, priority, etc.)
The spreadsheet functionality lets me sort, print, create views, search, and so on. Ordering, inserting, deleting, all much faster than the dedicated applications.
I wish there were the killer app for TODO's (and calendaring), but for now, spreadsheets are the way to get what I want. Nothing else seems flexible enough.
These interactive whiteboards are not just "gee whiz" toys, but once you get used to them, are truly powerful.
For example, editing what you've written, brings a whole new aspect to writing on a board. Being able to "drag" a chunk of what you've written to make room for something you forgot or didn't have room for, is a life saver. Similarly, if you run low on room, you can scale everything you've written down a bit, and continue on without having to break up your work. Very powerful.
Similarly, being able to flip back and forth between "pages" of stuff that wouldn't fit on one board, or after you've moved on, and want to refer back, is very convenient.
Getting hard copies of everything on the board, another major value.
The previous generation with which I'm familiar, took a bit of practice to use, so some folks in our company didn't take to it; but I'm sure the technology (esp the software) has evolved, and kids pick things up more quickly than adults, anyway.
While I heartily support livecd's for both introducing new users, and for diagnostic/rescue missions, I think coming up with a slick Knoppix-like distribution which uses coLinux, would go a long way.
I've started using coLinux for my development environment, running a full Fedora install under Windows, surprisingly efficiently (blows the doors off of VMWare). A CD that you could stick in, run a program which starts coLinux and a Knoppix distribution, would really let people get the flavour of Linux, without even rebooting.
I haven't used Tiger (although I am drooling to do so); but I would believe in this potential death of folders.
I've been using IronSentry's service to archive away all of my email to their service; the handy and immediate web-based search lets me find my old email so conveniently, that I no longer bother sorting my mail into folders. I just read it when it comes in (and even delete it from my local client), knowing I can find anything instantly with a convenient search.
The power of quick searching really will change the people work. It's a bit similar to how people tend to keep booksmarks less than they used to in the old day, since they know they can re-google any site they want, if they forget its particular URL.
I currently use Direcway at home. It's good, fast, but high latency, and the 169mb fair-access-policy (limit for downloads within a few hours, before you get throttled to 56k-ish speeds), are a bit of a pain. Still beats dialup.
Recently, I tired data-over-cell, since it had some impressive numbers. While the throughput over the frequencies might be okay, the error rate is just horrendous, which results in overall *very* sluggish speeds. Okay (sometimes) for MSN, the odd non-graphical page, but otherwise pretty useless.
Direcway is far better; hopefully some day low flying satellites with lower latency, higher bandwidth, will be available. For now, you might look into finding someone within DSL/Cable range, and getting one of those 5ghz band long distance wireless repeater thiniges to relay it to you (probably run you a few grand, but overall would give you high speed, reliability, and low latency).
You may want to check out CoLinux. It takes a bit of fiddling to set up (but it sounds like you're used to that), but it runs Linux surprisingly well under windows. Might be an answer to your needs until there are better drivers natively in Linux for your Laptop.
The list immediately lost credibility with me, when my favorite movie, The Shawshank Redemption was omitted. #2 on IMDB's top 250, but not even on the top 100 of Time's list? Makes some wonder if a media conglomerate like Time Warner might have had some other motivations (DVD sales?) in their choices.
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This explanation doesn't quite do it for me. When I saw the moon tonight, it looked like it was 2 or 3 of it's own size above the horizon. If I then pointed my camera at it, it looked about a couple of dozen of its own (tiny) size above the horizon.
Both cases, the relative sizes/locations of the horizon/moon should have been the same, whether it's my eyes or the camera.
People who expect word processor documents to be to-the-pixel identical on different machines are on crack. What if the recipient of your document uses a different paper size than you (eg letter vs A4)?
I call BS on this. On different papers, yes, the layouts would be different. And that's what a word processor is for, in general, rendering something onto paper. If a Linux and a Windows version of the same word processor (or format) were showing a document for printing on 8.5x11 paper, there's no reason they shouldn't show exactly the same layout of the items on the "virtual paper" before the printing occurs. To have it otherwise is disconcerting.
That's why the page format is stored in the document; this document was intended for letter; this document intended for A4. Put the right stock in the printer, and you should get consistent results.
Having OpenOffice render opened word documents differently from Word, is a problem; it's getting a *lot* better at that, thankfully.
The whole firewall thing always seemed to be a bit sad to me. There really is nothing that a firewall should be able to do, that a properly designed and configurable TCP/IP stack shouldn't be able to do itself. They really do seem to be a band-aid solution to something that should happen at an operating system TCP/IP stack level.
If you're not listening on most ports, but the ones you are listening on are well behaved, throttled, resistant to malformed connections, a firewall should be so unnecessary.
I have a Panasonic SV-AV100 (tapeless, digital, tiny)... I just love it, goes with me everywhere, quality is amazing. (The SV-AV50 that you can find at Radio Shack and such, is a bit of a toy, avoid that oen.)
I truly believe that Panasonic is the best kept secret in the consumer electronics world. They are the only single brand, that I've *never* had a problem with, and whose products I have always been 100% pleased. They have never let me down.
They don't seem to get the hype or advertise as much as Sony and friends, but I've had lemons from pretty much every other brand, and will stick to Panasonic where I can.
I actually talked to an airline pilot who flew in both North America and in Japan, and he indicated that the same model planes are actually configured differently between Japan airlines and North American airlines, to fit more people in, since in general, they do take up less space.
Whether Japanese people are generally genetically more slight in build (sumo wrestlers excluded), or Americans generally have more overweight people, it is interesting nonetheless. (Or maybe the Japanese are just being more efficient at the expense of comfort.)
While it sounds cool, and I'm sure they are good, any group of 11 meals that you eat day after day, is going to become tiresome after an extended period. One would hope they will be able to have variations and other new meals beyond those.
RTFA? I barely RTFS.
Perhaps one of the reasons that VHS is hanging on for awhile, is that most modern DVD players (which cost less than many DVD's), only have video out; a lot of perfectly good televisions (cheap ones, granted) that still work fine, do not have video in, only coax in. And RF converters can cost the same or up to 2x as much as the DVD unit itself.
Yes, TV's are cheap now, too; but replacing a TV just to watch DVD's is another barrier.
That being said, it's hard to imagine VHS being around for another 5 years. With DVD recorders becoming more prevalent, and undoubtedly soon dropping dramatically in price, the last functional advantage of VHS (cheap, quick, and easy recording) will have been equalled by DVD.
Exactly. The "Don't Panic" approach is what helped the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy outsell it's competition (that, and being slightly cheaper).
Imagine all the 'hard' work teachers, parents and guidance counselors put into brainwashing every kid that he/she must go to University."
Give me a break. And all the brainwashing our parents to do tell us that attending school is a good idea (even the draconian approach of legally requiring it!!!) And the brainwashing that bathing regularly and dental hygiene are good ideas. Imagine!
Honestly, encouraging kids to gets as much education as they can, can hardly be seen as a mind control technique, by anyone but the tinfoil hat crowd.
While I respect jobs, and certainly different modes of learning work for different people, I think that as a role model, he should be more careful about saying such things.
(It could be argued that occasionally "dropping in" to classes is how I went through University, somewhat successfully, but that's another story.)
Anyhow, dropping out and learning on your own may work for some people, with the right thirst for knowledge, insatiable curiousity, and maybe even some financial means behind them (mom & dad supporting them longer while they find themselves or get a biz off the ground); but for many average people, it's a ticket to a lifetime working the gas pumps.
It always amazes me what a big deal is made of "start up times." Who cares? If you spend more time starting up an application, than sitting there, effectively using it, then you're not a real user of the application, but just toying with it. In many cases, loading more stuff upon startup, will make operation of an application more peppy.
The same people that go on and on about start up times, don't seem to bitch too much (or maybe they do), about modern day games, where one seems to spend most of their time "Loading..." I find some of the best games today almost unusuable because of the loading delays; it really blows the ambiance for me.
I recently wrote two reporst, in in Word, one in OpenOffice; the main reason I used OpenOffice for the latter, was that I needed semi-visio-like functionaltiy, which Word/PowerPoint did not provide, and OpenOffice's Draw did.
In doing so, I found OpenOffice was the better experience overall. Crashes: Word 2, Open Office 2. Seems to be better functionality in OpenOffice as well, or at least things are more logically structured.
I think OpenOffice's time has come, or at least will be over the next few years.
It almost seems a bit of a pen-and-paper approach, but I use spreadsheets for my TODO lists. I used to use Pocket PC's Tasks to do this, and the equivalent tool on the Palm, but I found the categories and priorities too limiting.
So now I use Pocket Excel on my PDA (which interacts nicely with Office and StarOffice and such). I make up a little spread sheet, have tabs (sheets) for each major category (home, work, etc.), and customized columns as I need them (date due, priority, etc.)
The spreadsheet functionality lets me sort, print, create views, search, and so on. Ordering, inserting, deleting, all much faster than the dedicated applications.
I wish there were the killer app for TODO's (and calendaring), but for now, spreadsheets are the way to get what I want. Nothing else seems flexible enough.
These interactive whiteboards are not just "gee whiz" toys, but once you get used to them, are truly powerful.
For example, editing what you've written, brings a whole new aspect to writing on a board. Being able to "drag" a chunk of what you've written to make room for something you forgot or didn't have room for, is a life saver. Similarly, if you run low on room, you can scale everything you've written down a bit, and continue on without having to break up your work. Very powerful.
Similarly, being able to flip back and forth between "pages" of stuff that wouldn't fit on one board, or after you've moved on, and want to refer back, is very convenient.
Getting hard copies of everything on the board, another major value.
The previous generation with which I'm familiar, took a bit of practice to use, so some folks in our company didn't take to it; but I'm sure the technology (esp the software) has evolved, and kids pick things up more quickly than adults, anyway.
While I heartily support livecd's for both introducing new users, and for diagnostic/rescue missions, I think coming up with a slick Knoppix-like distribution which uses coLinux, would go a long way.
I've started using coLinux for my development environment, running a full Fedora install under Windows, surprisingly efficiently (blows the doors off of VMWare). A CD that you could stick in, run a program which starts coLinux and a Knoppix distribution, would really let people get the flavour of Linux, without even rebooting.
I've been using IronSentry's service to archive away all of my email to their service; the handy and immediate web-based search lets me find my old email so conveniently, that I no longer bother sorting my mail into folders. I just read it when it comes in (and even delete it from my local client), knowing I can find anything instantly with a convenient search.
The power of quick searching really will change the people work. It's a bit similar to how people tend to keep booksmarks less than they used to in the old day, since they know they can re-google any site they want, if they forget its particular URL.
Recently, I tired data-over-cell, since it had some impressive numbers. While the throughput over the frequencies might be okay, the error rate is just horrendous, which results in overall *very* sluggish speeds. Okay (sometimes) for MSN, the odd non-graphical page, but otherwise pretty useless.
Direcway is far better; hopefully some day low flying satellites with lower latency, higher bandwidth, will be available. For now, you might look into finding someone within DSL/Cable range, and getting one of those 5ghz band long distance wireless repeater thiniges to relay it to you (probably run you a few grand, but overall would give you high speed, reliability, and low latency).
You may want to check out CoLinux. It takes a bit of fiddling to set up (but it sounds like you're used to that), but it runs Linux surprisingly well under windows. Might be an answer to your needs until there are better drivers natively in Linux for your Laptop.
The list immediately lost credibility with me, when my favorite movie, The Shawshank Redemption was omitted. #2 on IMDB's top 250, but not even on the top 100 of Time's list? Makes some wonder if a media conglomerate like Time Warner might have had some other motivations (DVD sales?) in their choices.
...movie theatre goes to you!
Hey! That's my luggage combination!
I give up, no more computers for me.
Even CANADA? GASP!!! (*Slaps face with both hands in amazement...*)
Yes, we occasionally do stop squatting in the ditch stuffing berries up our noses, to surf the net. Sheeeeesh.
But I thought....????
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Self-hypnosis is also very relaxing (and arguably, the same thing, or at least an overlapping thing with meditation, yoga, etc..)