Since I don't pay for Firefox, vim, archlinux,
awesome, gimp, latex, gnuplot or gfortran... yes.
However, I do make contributions to some of those
projects, so I'm not all selfish.
This premise only (mostly) works against state actors. As soon as a non-state actor, e.g. a 30-person terrorist cell, decides that it hates you and wants to bomb one of your major cities, they don't give a rats ass about whether you bomb their country back to the stone age afterwards. There goes your deterrence...
Apropos overlay keyboard: am I the only one who remembers the Sony Ericsson P800? That came out TEN years ago and had this? I wonder, what is this "progress" you speak of (besides Moore's law)?
Not only does it seem like vaporware; the app, which is not even a functioning keyboard app, is 19.4 MB large! That is almost as large as my full-fledged GPS navigation app (excluding the maps, obviously). Adding insult to injury, it is "not compatible with my device", which is a pretty common LG Android phone (more than 2 million units sold). I am disappoint, to say the least.
This. This is where Bing fails. It almost sucks as hard as the "Fast" search engine they push for companies and organizations' internal website search tool. My university (which partially spawned Fast, so they probably got a good deal) uses it, and it is utter crap. Going to google and using "$searchterm site:$myuniversity.com" consistently yields better results: more relevant, less duplicates, and often things that the Fast engine does not even find. I cannot believe that they continue to spend money on a crappy product that no-one uses, when the (much better) alternative is free.
According to the Wikipedia article linked, he identifies with its "voice", having used it for over 20 years. I can understand that, I would certainly be uncomfortable with an "upgrade" changing my voice to someone else's. Of course you could replicate the voice in a new machine, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess.
This used to be so, but is now (sadly) less true, and there is one reason for it: the "FULL HD" moniker. It is perhaps the best hardware spec for marketing purposes that you can put on a device - people go "Oooo, HD!". Thus every smartphone mfg puts a backlit CMOS in their camera, because it is fast enough (bus-speed-wise) to produce HD video (although pretty crappy HD video).
Therefore, sadly for you, actual image quality is orders of magnitude worse than e.g. the comparably sized 7 MP CCD sensor in my old Powershot A620. I have a picture hanging in my living room taken with that camera, which is printed at 28 x 21 inches. Can your SII pictures be printed that big? No chance in hell, and you can thank Samsung for that.
This scam is also described in the song "Can't Con an Honest John" by The Streets, where it takes place in a bar using a dog instead of a violin. Don't know if he got it from Gaiman, or if it is older than that, but I'm guessing the latter.
I use Awesome WM. It's a tiling window manager, and it lives up to it's name! I use it both on ArchLinux and OpenSuse, and the stock configuration needs very little configuration to be perfectly useable. The configuration is written in Lua, so it takes a little time to master, but the amount of customization you can do is unbeatable. Screenshots
I used to do that. I got an HTC TouchPro2 for free (because the prev. owner didn't want it), and installed Android on it. It worked alright, but it was sluggish, had a 6h battery life, and I had to quickly activate and then deactivate the loudspeaker everytime I answered a call for the microphone to work. Since it was also the same size and mass as a brick, after around a month I bought a $120 Android phone instead (no contract).
You had me at "projection valued operators". This type of awesome post, where I learn stuff that my (actually quite good) stat mech professor never even mentioned, is the reason I still read/. Mod up please!
If the motion detector scripts work (haven't tried on ancient cameras, but no reason why it should not work) a cool thing is to put the camera on the ground in a forest, turn on motion detection, leave some nuts/food in front of it, and walk away for half an hour. You could have some really cool photos when you come back. (Manual focus recommended BTW)
I don't think that higher energy prices are being used to "screw citizens and control them". Did you know that the average US citizen uses nearly twice as much energy as people here in Europe, but we still have a higher standard of living, lower poverty rates, better health care and education and a higher life expectancy? You are basically wasting a lot of energy on nothing. If you halved your energy usage and doubled the price of energy, your expenses would be unchanged.
Furthermore, if the average US citizen reduced their energy consumption to be on par with Europeans, the US would become a net exporter of energy, and you would not have to go to war in Iraq to ensure you still have gasoline to fuel your cars! Those $1.3 trillon could be used for something more important, say, eliminating the budget deficit or improving the education system. Your argument is, as they say, moot.
Yes, CHDK is very nice, and gets another vote from me. I use it on my current Powershot SX10, and the ability to run scripts (e.g. motion detection) and to extend the range of apertures and shutter speeds available is extremely handy.
However, the manual controls on an Ixus with CHDK take roughly 3-4 times longer to adjust when doing "Shoot image->Check if it worked->Nope->Adjust->Take another image" than the manual controls built into a Powershot. It is often important to be able to adjust these quickly, so I would still recommend a Powershot over an Ixus if you plan to use manual controls more than once a year.
The US has some of the cheapest fuel in the world when compared to average income. The average UK citizen (comparable income level) pays twice as much for a gallon of gasoline as the average US citizen. Here in Norway, we pay 2.6 times as much as in the US. So... surely you jest?
Concerning Superphenix, it turns out that "shut down due to high costs" is not necessarily true. The plant was shut down by Lionel Jospin of the left-green coalition about a month after he became Prime Minister. Thus many argue that "high costs" was just an excuse for the political action of shutting down something nuclear and pleasing his voters/coalition partners.
(This is not to say that you don't have a point, solar and wind are much more expensive per kWh.)
Google doesn't give any details on TIFF exploits, other than for iphone, PS3, and an integer overflow error in Adobe Reader. Care to explain what sort of exploit you mean?
OTOH, my image viewer complains: "Warning, incorrect count for field "MinSampleValue" (1, expecting 3); tag ignored."
Sure, no stock goes up forever. But as you point out, AAPL has been consistently going up for ages. This has resulted in many people considering the stock "overbought". So if you bought stock in 2008, you should take your money now, deposit 95% of it in a savings account and gamble 5%, e.g. on shorting Raiffeisen or Commerzbank. As that will probably be good for your assets, and AAPL probably sees some downward adjustments during the next few months, you can buy even more AAPL for Christmas! (Disclaimer: Don't trust random internet people with your finances.)
As an AAPL stockholder, you should be pissed off, as their stock just tanked. Down 3% during this press conference, and it has been steadily going down for the past few months.
No, the answer is more general: Not Windows. My netbook
With ArchLinux has me reading mail in 25 seconds from cold boot.
Not quite as fast as an ipad, but I catch up if your reply mail is longer than one sentence.
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Since I don't pay for Firefox, vim, archlinux, awesome, gimp, latex, gnuplot or gfortran... yes. However, I do make contributions to some of those projects, so I'm not all selfish.
This premise only (mostly) works against state actors. As soon as a non-state actor, e.g. a 30-person terrorist cell, decides that it hates you and wants to bomb one of your major cities, they don't give a rats ass about whether you bomb their country back to the stone age afterwards. There goes your deterrence...
Apropos overlay keyboard: am I the only one who remembers the Sony Ericsson P800? That came out TEN years ago and had this? I wonder, what is this "progress" you speak of (besides Moore's law)?
Would mod you up if I wasn't the grandparent :)
Not only does it seem like vaporware; the app, which is not even a functioning keyboard app, is 19.4 MB large! That is almost as large as my full-fledged GPS navigation app (excluding the maps, obviously). Adding insult to injury, it is "not compatible with my device", which is a pretty common LG Android phone (more than 2 million units sold). I am disappoint, to say the least.
This. This is where Bing fails. It almost sucks as hard as the "Fast" search engine they push for companies and organizations' internal website search tool. My university (which partially spawned Fast, so they probably got a good deal) uses it, and it is utter crap. Going to google and using "$searchterm site:$myuniversity.com" consistently yields better results: more relevant, less duplicates, and often things that the Fast engine does not even find. I cannot believe that they continue to spend money on a crappy product that no-one uses, when the (much better) alternative is free.
According to the Wikipedia article linked, he identifies with its "voice", having used it for over 20 years. I can understand that, I would certainly be uncomfortable with an "upgrade" changing my voice to someone else's. Of course you could replicate the voice in a new machine, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess.
This used to be so, but is now (sadly) less true, and there is one reason for it: the "FULL HD" moniker. It is perhaps the best hardware spec for marketing purposes that you can put on a device - people go "Oooo, HD!". Thus every smartphone mfg puts a backlit CMOS in their camera, because it is fast enough (bus-speed-wise) to produce HD video (although pretty crappy HD video).
Therefore, sadly for you, actual image quality is orders of magnitude worse than e.g. the comparably sized 7 MP CCD sensor in my old Powershot A620. I have a picture hanging in my living room taken with that camera, which is printed at 28 x 21 inches. Can your SII pictures be printed that big? No chance in hell, and you can thank Samsung for that.
This scam is also described in the song "Can't Con an Honest John" by The Streets, where it takes place in a bar using a dog instead of a violin. Don't know if he got it from Gaiman, or if it is older than that, but I'm guessing the latter.
For me, it was the fact that the only Chrome plugin that enables Vim-like keybindings sucked, so I went back to Firefox with Pentadactyl.
I use Awesome WM. It's a tiling window manager, and it lives up to it's name! I use it both on ArchLinux and OpenSuse, and the stock configuration needs very little configuration to be perfectly useable. The configuration is written in Lua, so it takes a little time to master, but the amount of customization you can do is unbeatable. Screenshots
I used to do that. I got an HTC TouchPro2 for free (because the prev. owner didn't want it), and installed Android on it. It worked alright, but it was sluggish, had a 6h battery life, and I had to quickly activate and then deactivate the loudspeaker everytime I answered a call for the microphone to work. Since it was also the same size and mass as a brick, after around a month I bought a $120 Android phone instead (no contract).
You had me at "projection valued operators". This type of awesome post, where I learn stuff that my (actually quite good) stat mech professor never even mentioned, is the reason I still read /. Mod up please!
Comment to undo erroneous moderation. Please ignore.
If the motion detector scripts work (haven't tried on ancient cameras, but no reason why it should not work) a cool thing is to put the camera on the ground in a forest, turn on motion detection, leave some nuts/food in front of it, and walk away for half an hour. You could have some really cool photos when you come back. (Manual focus recommended BTW)
I don't think that higher energy prices are being used to "screw citizens and control them". Did you know that the average US citizen uses nearly twice as much energy as people here in Europe, but we still have a higher standard of living, lower poverty rates, better health care and education and a higher life expectancy? You are basically wasting a lot of energy on nothing. If you halved your energy usage and doubled the price of energy, your expenses would be unchanged.
Furthermore, if the average US citizen reduced their energy consumption to be on par with Europeans, the US would become a net exporter of energy, and you would not have to go to war in Iraq to ensure you still have gasoline to fuel your cars! Those $1.3 trillon could be used for something more important, say, eliminating the budget deficit or improving the education system. Your argument is, as they say, moot.
Yes, CHDK is very nice, and gets another vote from me. I use it on my current Powershot SX10, and the ability to run scripts (e.g. motion detection) and to extend the range of apertures and shutter speeds available is extremely handy.
However, the manual controls on an Ixus with CHDK take roughly 3-4 times longer to adjust when doing "Shoot image->Check if it worked->Nope->Adjust->Take another image" than the manual controls built into a Powershot. It is often important to be able to adjust these quickly, so I would still recommend a Powershot over an Ixus if you plan to use manual controls more than once a year.
Actually, you want the PowerShot line, which gives you the option of using manual controls. This is essential for learning and improving your skills.
The US has some of the cheapest fuel in the world when compared to average income. The average UK citizen (comparable income level) pays twice as much for a gallon of gasoline as the average US citizen. Here in Norway, we pay 2.6 times as much as in the US. So... surely you jest?
Concerning Superphenix, it turns out that "shut down due to high costs" is not necessarily true. The plant was shut down by Lionel Jospin of the left-green coalition about a month after he became Prime Minister. Thus many argue that "high costs" was just an excuse for the political action of shutting down something nuclear and pleasing his voters/coalition partners.
(This is not to say that you don't have a point, solar and wind are much more expensive per kWh.)
Here, try Portable Quest.
Google doesn't give any details on TIFF exploits, other than for iphone, PS3, and an integer overflow error in Adobe Reader. Care to explain what sort of exploit you mean?
OTOH, my image viewer complains: "Warning, incorrect count for field "MinSampleValue" (1, expecting 3); tag ignored."
Sure, no stock goes up forever. But as you point out, AAPL has been consistently going up for ages. This has resulted in many people considering the stock "overbought". So if you bought stock in 2008, you should take your money now, deposit 95% of it in a savings account and gamble 5%, e.g. on shorting Raiffeisen or Commerzbank. As that will probably be good for your assets, and AAPL probably sees some downward adjustments during the next few months, you can buy even more AAPL for Christmas! (Disclaimer: Don't trust random internet people with your finances.)
As an AAPL stockholder, you should be pissed off, as their stock just tanked. Down 3% during this press conference, and it has been steadily going down for the past few months.
No, the answer is more general: Not Windows. My netbook With ArchLinux has me reading mail in 25 seconds from cold boot. Not quite as fast as an ipad, but I catch up if your reply mail is longer than one sentence.