My first "real" camera was also a SRT 201. A birthday/Christmas/graduation present from my parents that I lobbied (begged) pathetically for. I shot so many rolls of film through it that the shutter curtain stretched. (I replaced it with a Nikon F2A.) I worked in a series of camera stores for a (long) while and always liked the Minolta products. They were very high quality for the money and less problematic than Cannon. I was disapointed when they merged with Konica and am very sad to hear this news.
I loved film, but I shoot digital now. I loved darkroom work, but I don't miss the dermatitis. Time marches on.
(I sound like my dad - always going on about how he missed his old Studebaker.)
However, the irony of your response is not lost, but why stop with the web? Perhaps the problem is the S/N of the internet iteself. Perhaps ISPs should refuse to carry it.
Yes, but you have to admit that the signal to noise ratio has gotten pretty bad. Not to fall into a "things were better in the old days" mode, it does seem that useful/interesting info is more often found on other forums these days. What good discussion *is* going on, is usally lost in the troll spew and political trashing.
It's like a bank robber who drove a car to the bank. "Motorist Gets 6 Years!" The article only mentions spamming in context of his other crimes.
Francis-Macrae was found guilty of two counts of fraudulent trading, one of concealing criminal property, two of making threats to kill, one charge of threatening to destroy or damage property and one count of blackmail.
The 23-year-old was cleared of two charges of making threats to kill.
Just like the blurb for this review spent more time referencing a previous review on an outsourcing book than it did describing this book (which apparently has nothing to do with outsourcing)? Did it get your attention?
The first four words of the second paragraph explain everything: "As a management consultant..." Management consultants live on panic, FUD, and misdirected attention.
The article and the web site say this stuff is non-toxic. Copper is a well known biocide used in bottom paint to kill marine life that likes to live on boats. How is this any different (except for the lower price - it doesn't say "marine" on the lable).
It looks like the prof let the students know about this during the first class. They knew what was expected and that it would be worth 60% of their grade. This kind of "all the eggs in one basket" assignment should have let all the students that weren't darn sure they could complete it know it was time to get their drop slips in.
It also looks like there was some sort of flexibility for partial credit.
Where's the problem? Oh, I forgot. We're Americans so every time things don't go our way we must be victims. Silly me.
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The article you link to doesn't even mention Canada, Canadian laws, or the Canadian drug market. How exactly does this support your argument?
It's a FUD piece supporting drug patents. I liked this quote... Patent pirates, however, want to steal even more of a drug company's property. Their justification is the need for "humanitarian" aid. They offer the notion that it is unethical for companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Roche and Pfizer to put their patents and profits above the suffering of those in Africa and other needy places who are afflicted with HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other treatable diseases.
I agree that AIDS is destroying Africa. However, I have friends who work there (for aid organizations) and their efforts to educate Africans about AIDS or to get Africans to change their sexual behaviour has been met with charges of "cultural imperialism". The concept that low-cost (or free) drugs will solve everything is a happy fantasy.
When The Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik was interviewed on Slashdot, there was a comment made about how disruptive it would be to implement his (and his party's) ideas. His response, in essense, was that since the only way he would get elected was if hell had frozen over, that it made sense to create a platform for that situation. While that makes for a nice way for people to give the finger to "the man", it hardly provides a real alternative to the current system.
My question is: are you guys ready or able to play on the same stage as the Democrats and Republicans, can you get the attention of the media, and can you sell your message to the average american? Convince me that voting for you would be of more use than voting for the lesser of two evils.
I personally, have never seen anything to convince me that an all powerful, all knowing creature who is at the same time good is even possible in this universe. If you choose to believe that, then that is your business, but the burden of proof is on you, since you are the one claiming such a thing exists. This isn't to say that you have some burden to try and convince me, just that the fact is that you are the one who is proposing something as true, not me.
Actually, this statement would indicate that you are an agnostic, not an atheist. You seem to be saying that if someone were to present you with solid proof of the existence of God that you would accept it and believe in God. An atheist, on the other hand, would hang onto his disbelief in God regardless of any proof.
Politically based literature, I believe is essential. It is absolutely necessary to create a populace that understands issues on both sides and is able to logically analyze those issues and "pick a side" so to speak. Most of our nations most dividing issues (abortion, being the most notable one that comes to mind) have sane, reasonable arguments on both sides of the fence. Fact based education is a great concept, but it assumes that designing the curriculum and those teaching are completly unbiased in their own understanding of the "facts" and have no agenda to put forward other than the "zen" of education. I strongly doubt that such a teacher exists.
It isn't really WAP that sucks. WAP's biggest problem is that browser support for WAP sucks. If you don't have compliance - or consistant non-compliance - there's no way to create WAP that will work properly for users of more than one network. (Hell, you can't write content for users of more than one PHONE!) Add to the mix slow, buggy servers and a lack of commitment from the consortium participants and you have the mess that WAP is now.
Neither the FA nor the A referenced by the FA says anything about what version of WAP is being used, or whether the WAP being used is compliant or not, just that GPRS is making it easier to serve it. My guess is that Orange and Sony/Ericson are using their own extended versions and are probably tieing the users to WAP served over their own networks. They control the tagset, the server, and the content. What incentive is there for content creators outside of the wireless companies to get involved?
You should check out JSR 184: Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME. This appears to be a "J2ME-ized" subset of Java3D. Nokia has a reference implementation. AFAIK the first commercial implmentation of JSR 184 is Swerve from Superscape.
This is just a guess, but I wouldn't be at all suprised if VRML/X3D's fully open status a big reason for this new effort. Look at the players. Most of those companies were involved with VRML at one time or another. None are known as being big supporters of open projects. This will be something they can control and license.
Of course the glacially slow nature of the web3d consortium could also be an issue.
A bit of irony is that VRML got a huge push from those same companies back when it was popular, and then slowed down when they gradually withdrew their support. Now they will be able to put that same support behind U3D. How will this affect the X3D effort?
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I'm no tree hugger (or fish hugger in this case), but there may be some legitimate questions here...
How will they keep marine life from growing on it? Most current techniques involve painting things with bio-toxins.
How will this effect the local currents? They already have a lot of problems with erosion in the UK, how will this fit into the mix?
How will marine animals that rely on the currents be affected by this?
How will commercial fishing interact with this?
How often will it need maintainence and how will that maintainence be done? What impact will that have? Also, how much will it cost to maintain?
Let me draw you a picture... A society where people's idea of fun is to spend lots of money to modify their cars so that they will go faster while producing more pollution and using more gas is a society that will always have a "never ending need for more powerlines and more electricity" and will never look "for alternatives with any real conviction." I admit it was a bit of an abstract connection, but I thought most people could... oh... just forget it.
...who has a problem with people modifying their cars to get worse gas mileage and to produce more pollution? How many folks who've responded here go around bitching about global warming and the government's energy and environmental policies?
You seem to be willing to risk a politician's career in exchange for free speech, but not the embarassment of a software company.
Hold on there, that's not what I said! I have no problem with the message or the results - just the forum and the motivation. (And the whining quality of the cry of injustice.) To use your politician example, there's a big difference between a letter to the editor of the Washington Post and an spam of the usenet. There are a lot of "legitimate" technical forums that this info could have been released to. He chose a "look at me" web site and a cracker magazine.
Of course, I could just be cynical.:-)
That is neither in keeping with the original intent of the first amendment, nor is it logically consistent.
Could you imagine how absurd it would be to require similar restrictions upon political speech?
I don't think your comparison is valid.
This is more of a consumer activism issue than a political speach issue. If you know something is wrong with a product that is advertised as safe, how do you deal with it? Do you go to the company and ask them to fix it? Do you go to the responsible government agency and inform them of the problem? Do you go to the national and international news agencies and ask them to warn people? Or do you go the fringe publications and post your info there so you can show yourself as the L33t Haxor you really are?
I don't disagree that getting the word out is the right thing to do, I'm just a little puzzled as to the method, motivation, and response.
I'm sure I'll get burned at the stake for this, but what the heck...
How many sides of this story do we have? Hmm, just this guy's side. Interesting.
Did he make any effort to alert the creators of the software before he published the info? Not that I could tell from the linked info. It sounds like he just posted it on his web page and published it in a crackers magazine and let the chips fall where they may. Not exactly responsible activism.
What exactly *is* the law regarding this in France? Here in the States we have the DMCA. It's a terrible law, but we all know what we're getting into if we break it. That's what civil disobedience is all about, isn't it? I seem to recall that Europe has similar laws on the books.
I'm sorry, but with the info we've been given this sounds a little like "I did something naughty and I got caught and now I might get PUNISHED! Oh poor me!"
All kneejerk reactions aside, maybe there's more to this situation than we've been given.
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My first "real" camera was also a SRT 201. A birthday/Christmas/graduation present from my parents that I lobbied (begged) pathetically for. I shot so many rolls of film through it that the shutter curtain stretched. (I replaced it with a Nikon F2A.) I worked in a series of camera stores for a (long) while and always liked the Minolta products. They were very high quality for the money and less problematic than Cannon. I was disapointed when they merged with Konica and am very sad to hear this news.
I loved film, but I shoot digital now. I loved darkroom work, but I don't miss the dermatitis. Time marches on.
(I sound like my dad - always going on about how he missed his old Studebaker.)
Ahhh, but MY post is part of the signal!
However, the irony of your response is not lost, but why stop with the web? Perhaps the problem is the S/N of the internet iteself. Perhaps ISPs should refuse to carry it.
Yes, but you have to admit that the signal to noise ratio has gotten pretty bad. Not to fall into a "things were better in the old days" mode, it does seem that useful/interesting info is more often found on other forums these days. What good discussion *is* going on, is usally lost in the troll spew and political trashing.
It's like a bank robber who drove a car to the bank. "Motorist Gets 6 Years!" The article only mentions spamming in context of his other crimes.
Francis-Macrae was found guilty of two counts of fraudulent trading, one of concealing criminal property, two of making threats to kill, one charge of threatening to destroy or damage property and one count of blackmail.
The 23-year-old was cleared of two charges of making threats to kill.
Just like the blurb for this review spent more time referencing a previous review on an outsourcing book than it did describing this book (which apparently has nothing to do with outsourcing)? Did it get your attention?
The first four words of the second paragraph explain everything: "As a management consultant..." Management consultants live on panic, FUD, and misdirected attention.
The article and the web site say this stuff is non-toxic. Copper is a well known biocide used in bottom paint to kill marine life that likes to live on boats. How is this any different (except for the lower price - it doesn't say "marine" on the lable).
It looks like the prof let the students know about this during the first class. They knew what was expected and that it would be worth 60% of their grade. This kind of "all the eggs in one basket" assignment should have let all the students that weren't darn sure they could complete it know it was time to get their drop slips in.
It also looks like there was some sort of flexibility for partial credit.
Where's the problem? Oh, I forgot. We're Americans so every time things don't go our way we must be victims. Silly me.
The article you link to doesn't even mention Canada, Canadian laws, or the Canadian drug market. How exactly does this support your argument?
It's a FUD piece supporting drug patents. I liked this quote...
Patent pirates, however, want to steal even more of a drug company's property. Their justification is the need for "humanitarian" aid. They offer the notion that it is unethical for companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Roche and Pfizer to put their patents and profits above the suffering of those in Africa and other needy places who are afflicted with HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other treatable diseases.
I agree that AIDS is destroying Africa. However, I have friends who work there (for aid organizations) and their efforts to educate Africans about AIDS or to get Africans to change their sexual behaviour has been met with charges of "cultural imperialism". The concept that low-cost (or free) drugs will solve everything is a happy fantasy.
When The Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik was interviewed on Slashdot, there was a comment made about how disruptive it would be to implement his (and his party's) ideas. His response, in essense, was that since the only way he would get elected was if hell had frozen over, that it made sense to create a platform for that situation. While that makes for a nice way for people to give the finger to "the man", it hardly provides a real alternative to the current system.
My question is: are you guys ready or able to play on the same stage as the Democrats and Republicans, can you get the attention of the media, and can you sell your message to the average american? Convince me that voting for you would be of more use than voting for the lesser of two evils.
I personally, have never seen anything to convince me that an all powerful, all knowing creature who is at the same time good is even possible in this universe. If you choose to believe that, then that is your business, but the burden of proof is on you, since you are the one claiming such a thing exists. This isn't to say that you have some burden to try and convince me, just that the fact is that you are the one who is proposing something as true, not me.
Actually, this statement would indicate that you are an agnostic, not an atheist. You seem to be saying that if someone were to present you with solid proof of the existence of God that you would accept it and believe in God. An atheist, on the other hand, would hang onto his disbelief in God regardless of any proof.
There are very few true atheists.
Politically based literature, I believe is essential. It is absolutely necessary to create a populace that understands issues on both sides and is able to logically analyze those issues and "pick a side" so to speak. Most of our nations most dividing issues (abortion, being the most notable one that comes to mind) have sane, reasonable arguments on both sides of the fence.
Fact based education is a great concept, but it assumes that designing the curriculum and those teaching are completly unbiased in their own understanding of the "facts" and have no agenda to put forward other than the "zen" of education. I strongly doubt that such a teacher exists.
Please mod the parent up.
It isn't really WAP that sucks. WAP's biggest problem is that browser support for WAP sucks. If you don't have compliance - or consistant non-compliance - there's no way to create WAP that will work properly for users of more than one network. (Hell, you can't write content for users of more than one PHONE!) Add to the mix slow, buggy servers and a lack of commitment from the consortium participants and you have the mess that WAP is now.
Neither the FA nor the A referenced by the FA says anything about what version of WAP is being used, or whether the WAP being used is compliant or not, just that GPRS is making it easier to serve it. My guess is that Orange and Sony/Ericson are using their own extended versions and are probably tieing the users to WAP served over their own networks. They control the tagset, the server, and the content. What incentive is there for content creators outside of the wireless companies to get involved?
You should check out JSR 184: Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME. This appears to be a "J2ME-ized" subset of Java3D. Nokia has a reference implementation. AFAIK the first commercial implmentation of JSR 184 is Swerve from Superscape.
Imagine Clippy come to life and able to follow you around commenting on everything you do.
Lifespan: 2 hours
Cause of failure: smashed against bulkhead by astronaut
Ummmm...
What part of Adobe, Boeing, Canon, EDS/Unigraphics PLM, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft, and ECMA don't you understand?
This is just a guess, but I wouldn't be at all suprised if VRML/X3D's fully open status a big reason for this new effort. Look at the players. Most of those companies were involved with VRML at one time or another. None are known as being big supporters of open projects. This will be something they can control and license.
Of course the glacially slow nature of the web3d consortium could also be an issue.
A bit of irony is that VRML got a huge push from those same companies back when it was popular, and then slowed down when they gradually withdrew their support. Now they will be able to put that same support behind U3D. How will this affect the X3D effort?
Chimps rarely kill each other out of the blue, and don't conduct wars.
Bzzzzzt! Wrong Answer!
Let me draw you a picture...
A society where people's idea of fun is to spend lots of money to modify their cars so that they will go faster while producing more pollution and using more gas is a society that will always have a "never ending need for more powerlines and more electricity" and will never look "for alternatives with any real conviction."
I admit it was a bit of an abstract connection, but I thought most people could... oh... just forget it.
This may give you a hint...
...who has a problem with people modifying their cars to get worse gas mileage and to produce more pollution? How many folks who've responded here go around bitching about global warming and the government's energy and environmental policies?
You seem to be willing to risk a politician's career in exchange for free speech, but not the embarassment of a software company.
:-)
Hold on there, that's not what I said! I have no problem with the message or the results - just the forum and the motivation. (And the whining quality of the cry of injustice.) To use your politician example, there's a big difference between a letter to the editor of the Washington Post and an spam of the usenet. There are a lot of "legitimate" technical forums that this info could have been released to. He chose a "look at me" web site and a cracker magazine.
Of course, I could just be cynical.
That is neither in keeping with the original intent of the first amendment, nor is it logically consistent.
I couldn't agree more.
Could you imagine how absurd it would be to require similar restrictions upon political speech?
I don't think your comparison is valid.
This is more of a consumer activism issue than a political speach issue. If you know something is wrong with a product that is advertised as safe, how do you deal with it? Do you go to the company and ask them to fix it? Do you go to the responsible government agency and inform them of the problem? Do you go to the national and international news agencies and ask them to warn people? Or do you go the fringe publications and post your info there so you can show yourself as the L33t Haxor you really are?
I don't disagree that getting the word out is the right thing to do, I'm just a little puzzled as to the method, motivation, and response.
I'm sure I'll get burned at the stake for this, but what the heck...
How many sides of this story do we have? Hmm, just this guy's side. Interesting.
Did he make any effort to alert the creators of the software before he published the info? Not that I could tell from the linked info. It sounds like he just posted it on his web page and published it in a crackers magazine and let the chips fall where they may. Not exactly responsible activism.
What exactly *is* the law regarding this in France? Here in the States we have the DMCA. It's a terrible law, but we all know what we're getting into if we break it. That's what civil disobedience is all about, isn't it? I seem to recall that Europe has similar laws on the books.
I'm sorry, but with the info we've been given this sounds a little like "I did something naughty and I got caught and now I might get PUNISHED! Oh poor me!"
All kneejerk reactions aside, maybe there's more to this situation than we've been given.