The instant feedback of a display is one of the best things about digitals
Yeah, you're right of course. The "No LCD Display" was probably going off the deep-end on my part. But really, people have been making excellent photographs for well over 100 years without instant feedback/LCD screens. Also, manual focus is too often overlooked. Manual focus that lens and you know exactly what your intended subject is.
I was pretty big on digital cameras til I got a Nikon FM-3a. The FM-3a is a fully manual SLR film camera and it completely reversed my view of photography. After I got it I took an intro to photography class at the local community college and was hooked. Now I'd like to get a digital camera to take the place of the FM-3a, but I don't see that happening. Here is my wish list for a digital SLR:
Full 35mm sensor. Let me have a shallow depth of field, please! Smaller sensors give such a huge depth of field, it's difficult to blur the background.
No built in flash. Face it, if you need a flash, you're going to need a REAL flash, not some cheapo flashlight built into the camera.
Analog metering. By this I mean a little needle I can see thru the viewfinder for metering. I can look thru the FM-3a and instantly see how many stops I need to adjust the exposure.
Traditional SLR feel. I need the shutter time on the top right of the camera on a dedicated knob. No multi-purpose jog wheel, a traditional knob with full stops. 60, 125, 250, no fraction-of-a-stop BS.
No LCD display. Yep, you heard me right. Take this thing off and it'll lower the price & form factor. I don't need to review the shots I took, if I'm concerned about the exposure I'll bracket the shots +/- a stop. And I'm not worried about deleting a picture to save disk space when I've got a 1 gig compact flash card.
No bells and whistles. I can pick up any old SLR and know how to use it in 10 seconds. Try this with any modern digital.
ok, those are my main gripes. I've got more minor ones, like screw USB and firewire, I'll just plug the CF card directly into my laptop. Wireless connection? Definetly axe that, what a waste of real estate on a camera.
A dedicated knob for shutter time, one for ISO setting, another for white balance, and a Nikon lens mount (ok, I don't care if it's Nikon, I'll buy a new system if the camera is as above).
When partitioning my Linux drives, I almost always have more than one drive in the machine. HDA1 normally gets the root partition. HDB1 is normally my swap, at the front 512 MB of the drive, followed by home on HDB2. This system makes everything snappy.
Instead of having a single 512 MB swap, you could try setting up two 256 MB swaps, one on each drive. Provided you give them the same priority, Linux is supposed to automagically use them in a RAID-0 type manner. No RAID tools necessary. For example, here's the swap from my fstab:
1) Opera DOES have a non-audio mail notification. I have sound turned off, and when mail comes in, I get a little box in the bottom left hand corner of the screen that says how many messages have arrived. I'm still using Opera 7.23.
Instead of audio notification, perhaps Opera should send you an email to let you know you've got mail? That would be extremely useless.
in the event that you're not trolling, perhaps you haven't seen the emacs mode for tar files? I think the mp3 mode the poster proposed would be pretty cool.
while on the subject of Perl & mp3, I put together a object persistence module I called AudioDBI for audio metadata. It works with PostgreSQL, but with a little work it should play nicely with any database DBI supports (it extends DBI).
I know their are currently about five thousand object persistence modules for Perl, but I wanted one that was designed for audio metadata (artist name, album title, genres, etc etc) and provided for easy searching of metadata.
I'm curious if this may cause in increase in virii and worms for open source platforms. With more users, Linux worms and virii might become more prevalent. And isn't southeast Asia a major source of virii?
Will you be able to boot from these devices? I don't see any mention of it in the article; I'd imagine you'd need support both in the BIOS and possibly the network card..?
1. Without patents, the little guy who invents something new won't be able to compete against the big corporations who copy his idea.
And exactly how many "little guy" inventors have benefitted in the past 10 years? Unless you can make some serious money off of your invention, the effort to patent is greater than the return.
2.... This means rather than keeping useful inventions secret, the inventor benefits for about 17 years after which the general public can benefit too by having details available.
Unfortunately for most software patents (any many others), after 17 years the technology under patent will be moot. Their are a few exceptions of course such as RSA. Others such as the Fraunhauffer mp3 patent won't matter much.
if I wanted to buy a $1400 laptop at CompUSA and gave them 70 $20 bills, 14 Benjamins, or 1.4 x 10^5 pennies, that's legal according to the US Treasury, right? (They being the ones issuing the legal tender I'm using.)
You can certainly refuse to take 1.4x10^5 pennies. A few years back a city courthouse refused to take approximately $200 when a man attempted to pay his fine with pennies.
So now we have purified water, mineral water, distilled water, rain water, tap water, spring water, and now martian water. It's a Bobby Boucher dream come true.
you don't mean the Little Drummer Boy thing with Bing Crosby? that was pitiful... [quick web search]
David Bowie: Do you eh... do you like modern music? Bing Crosby: Oh, I think it's marvellous! Some of it's really fine. But tell me, have you ever listened to any of the older fellows? DB: Oh yeah, sure. I like ah... John Lennon and the other one with...eh... Harry Nilsson. BC: Mmm... you go back that far, uh? DB: Yeah, I'm not as young as I look.
Speaking as some one who as been unemployed for a while and have used all thier benifts, I'd take the million.
Did you RTFA? They're not giving a single person a million dollars. The first prize is $50k. A million dollars is the total value of all the prizes, including an Unreal Engine license they're giving away -- which doesn't really "cost" Epic anything much (though it's valued at $350,000).
You should be able to infer all that from the slashdot summary.
Additional hands on is nice, but what's really needed is for the students to want to learn. What kept me studying EE was applying it to what I really liked to do at the time: make music & wierd ass sounds.
While we were deep in the theory of opamps and such, I was pulling old ElectroHarmonix schematics off the web and attempting to breadboard some of them. Skip ahead to signal analysis, what's the deal with this transfer function stuff? Take some analog synth components and look at the filters, typically you'll find a four pole low pass. Ok, so that's what a transfer function is...
It really helps if you can identify with what you're studying, and if you can identify with it outside of your academic environment then you're really going to excel.
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Yeah, you're right of course. The "No LCD Display" was probably going off the deep-end on my part. But really, people have been making excellent photographs for well over 100 years without instant feedback/LCD screens. Also, manual focus is too often overlooked. Manual focus that lens and you know exactly what your intended subject is.
- Full 35mm sensor. Let me have a shallow depth of field, please! Smaller sensors give such a huge depth of field, it's difficult to blur the background.
- No built in flash. Face it, if you need a flash, you're going to need a REAL flash, not some cheapo flashlight built into the camera.
- Analog metering. By this I mean a little needle I can see thru the viewfinder for metering. I can look thru the FM-3a and instantly see how many stops I need to adjust the exposure.
- Traditional SLR feel. I need the shutter time on the top right of the camera on a dedicated knob. No multi-purpose jog wheel, a traditional knob with full stops. 60, 125, 250, no fraction-of-a-stop BS.
- No LCD display. Yep, you heard me right. Take this thing off and it'll lower the price & form factor. I don't need to review the shots I took, if I'm concerned about the exposure I'll bracket the shots +/- a stop. And I'm not worried about deleting a picture to save disk space when I've got a 1 gig compact flash card.
- No bells and whistles. I can pick up any old SLR and know how to use it in 10 seconds. Try this with any modern digital.
ok, those are my main gripes. I've got more minor ones, like screw USB and firewire, I'll just plug the CF card directly into my laptop. Wireless connection? Definetly axe that, what a waste of real estate on a camera.A dedicated knob for shutter time, one for ISO setting, another for white balance, and a Nikon lens mount (ok, I don't care if it's Nikon, I'll buy a new system if the camera is as above).
Instead of having a single 512 MB swap, you could try setting up two 256 MB swaps, one on each drive. Provided you give them the same priority, Linux is supposed to automagically use them in a RAID-0 type manner. No RAID tools necessary. For example, here's the swap from my fstab:
I suggesting never getting in a fight with a blind person while it's raining, or near fire sprinklers. Or near Ben Affleck.
you ought to beef up your cover letter if you're truely interested in finding work. As it stands your cover letter is too minimal.
Instead of audio notification, perhaps Opera should send you an email to let you know you've got mail? That would be extremely useless.
And even longer til the home console can recreate the smell of urine that's constantly wafting from the ball pit...
I still don't see how this is going to help my shell prompt.
in the event that you're not trolling, perhaps you haven't seen the emacs mode for tar files? I think the mp3 mode the poster proposed would be pretty cool.
I know their are currently about five thousand object persistence modules for Perl, but I wanted one that was designed for audio metadata (artist name, album title, genres, etc etc) and provided for easy searching of metadata.
no, I'm not trolling. It should be obvious that a platform with more users will have more virii.
I'm curious if this may cause in increase in virii and worms for open source platforms. With more users, Linux worms and virii might become more prevalent. And isn't southeast Asia a major source of virii?
Will you be able to boot from these devices? I don't see any mention of it in the article; I'd imagine you'd need support both in the BIOS and possibly the network card..?
And exactly how many "little guy" inventors have benefitted in the past 10 years? Unless you can make some serious money off of your invention, the effort to patent is greater than the return.
2. ... This means rather than keeping useful inventions secret, the inventor benefits for about 17 years after which the general public can benefit too by having details available.
Unfortunately for most software patents (any many others), after 17 years the technology under patent will be moot. Their are a few exceptions of course such as RSA. Others such as the Fraunhauffer mp3 patent won't matter much.
i knew it! that's the story I was thinking of.
this wasn't in Issaquah, WA, was it? sounds kind of familiar.
You can certainly refuse to take 1.4x10^5 pennies. A few years back a city courthouse refused to take approximately $200 when a man attempted to pay his fine with pennies.
So now we have purified water, mineral water, distilled water, rain water, tap water, spring water, and now martian water. It's a Bobby Boucher dream come true.
Base 11 is fairly easy to use for men that leave their zippers down.
you don't mean the Little Drummer Boy thing with Bing Crosby? that was pitiful... [quick web search]
...eh... Harry Nilsson.
David Bowie: Do you eh... do you like modern music?
Bing Crosby: Oh, I think it's marvellous! Some of it's really fine. But tell me, have you ever listened to any of the older fellows?
DB: Oh yeah, sure. I like ah... John Lennon and the other one with
BC: Mmm... you go back that far, uh?
DB: Yeah, I'm not as young as I look.
that's wierd, the Iraqi Minister of Information was sending the same thing...
Did you RTFA? They're not giving a single person a million dollars. The first prize is $50k. A million dollars is the total value of all the prizes, including an Unreal Engine license they're giving away -- which doesn't really "cost" Epic anything much (though it's valued at $350,000).
You should be able to infer all that from the slashdot summary.
I suggest combining the UT engine with existing software:
UT2003 Word: you're weapons are literally A-Z
UT2003 Outlook: shoot the incoming virii and worms, penile erection mails act as a quad-damage
UT2003 Nethack: their's potential here...
UT2003 Emacs: M-x frag
UT2003 SCO: to consider this would be a thought crime
I suggest everyone Give Up The Funk to Parliament. Your code would rest easier with George Clinton anyway.
Free Your Code and Your Ass Will Follow!
Additional hands on is nice, but what's really needed is for the students to want to learn. What kept me studying EE was applying it to what I really liked to do at the time: make music & wierd ass sounds.
While we were deep in the theory of opamps and such, I was pulling old ElectroHarmonix schematics off the web and attempting to breadboard some of them. Skip ahead to signal analysis, what's the deal with this transfer function stuff? Take some analog synth components and look at the filters, typically you'll find a four pole low pass. Ok, so that's what a transfer function is...
It really helps if you can identify with what you're studying, and if you can identify with it outside of your academic environment then you're really going to excel.