Sensor size in that case is not measured in megapixels. APS-C is something like 28mm sensor. A typical point and shoot might have something like an 8mm sensor, and the smaller the sensor, the more likely it seems to be able to pick up noise. I think it stands to reason that if you want RAW, you might want to get a unit that's got a bigger / better sensor and lens anyway.
That's a horrible analogy. I do not see it like you describe it at all. In this case, Verizon would be making money on the services, so it's not just about some other entity using the network for free, unless you're fine with an ISP charging both sides on a single client's connection. Just that they can't pick and choose what devices and apps are allowed to take advantage of the services.
This was a condition of the bidding. Verizon did not have to bid. I would take it as more than a bit of bad faith if Verizon bid with no intention of upholding the conditions of the auction.
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You should keep in mind is that Apple did say that they were going to make Carbon 64 for Leopard, but dropped it and took their sweet time saying anything about it. In short, Apple announced Carbon 64 WWDC '06, and announced there was no Carbon 64 WWDC '07.
You should also keep in mind that Final Cut Pro and much of the ret of Final Cut Studio is also in Carbon. Apple too is taking their sweet time too. Apple had ten years to push their Pro App developers to Cocoa and have yet to actually make good on a transition.
I guess it's interesting that Apple sells an OS with "Server" in the name. OS X uses a BSD system, but the kernel isn't BSD. The intention was to make it all easier with a GUI front end rather than having to deal with command lines and text files. Not having used OS X server, I don't know how well they do that.
The problem is that "unlimited" is kind of like a buffet. Just because you can go back as often as you want doesn't mean it's right for you to give someone else a plate and tell them to eat as much as they want too on your buffet entry fee, unless you pay for their use of the buffet too.
Electricity and water, as far as I know, is usually not put on "unlimited" plans. You pay for every gallon and every kWhr consumed. You don't pay by the MB, GB or anything like that.
Most of the time, Disney takes public domain stories. Kimba and Pooh are the only two that I'm aware of where Disney used someone else's story that was not public domain. And so far, they haven't blocked a lot of new works based on the original story. If someone made a book based on the Disney version of the story, then I can see why Disney would go after it.
I think Pooh was licensed, and as I understand it, Disney did violate the license later on. To me, the Kimba situation looks like they tried to license the story, maybe even had the rights to it while in production. Ultimately, they didn't have that license (either pulled or fell through) by the time they finished it, so they made a few changes and shipped the movie.
For some reason, the multitude of distributions implies that there's just a whole bunch of feuding going on. I don't think it's necessarily the case, but it can mean that, depending on what divisions you look at.
I really don't have an easy answer. Each programmers often has his or her agenda, and without some sort of unifying force, you'll get a lot of different variations, most of which generally aren't an improvement as a whole. In the commercial world, that unifying force is that you're getting paid to do something, and there's usually no choice. You usually can't go and program something the way you want it to be and still get a paycheck. While there are disadvantages there, I think there is some merit too. For one, things move on at a better pace. I can use just about any Windows or OS X machine and know what I'm doing and where to find a file or whatever. Linux is a whole different game in my opinion.
NewEgg has a few color laser printers in the $200 range, so I find your post to be highly suspect.
How again? The GP did NOT say the printers were cheap, nor did the GP say that the supplies were cheap. In fact, the GP hinted at the up-front expense:
"Suck it up and buy yourself a color laserjet and you will greatly reduce the cost per page to print a report. "
Yes, the printer and supplies cost more up-front, but they'll also print a LOT more pages before needing another toner cartridge. A factor of ten is not unheard of. A laser print can be pennies a page, an inkjet print can be dimes per page, over a dollar a page for a fill-page photo print.
Unfortunately there's no comparisons of battery life and speed tests with fragmented files.
Is file fragmentation really that big of a problem?
I know at one time I used to defragment a lot, but the difference has always been negligible for me. I only did it with the thought of keeping it "in tune", but even once a year doesn't make much apparent difference in computer performance.
I meant the fan speed on the ATI 1900. I had to have mine replaced by Apple a few weeks ago. Hopefully it doesn't happen again, but I just can't help but think the fan runs too slow for its cooling needs.
Back that up. Just because it's a PC, doesn't mean automatically it's noisy. So far, there aren't any reviews or measurements made that I've seen so far.
I've owned quiet Xeon workstations, as well as quiet desktop systems too. Heck, my G5s have been noisier than my PC Xeon workstation. Among other things, I think the ATI 1900 that Apple used in their Mac Pros have been excessively turned down in speed, they seem to go flaky after a year. Apple has had similar problems with GFX chips in the aluminum iMacs too. The G5s are pretty quiet at idle, but at 20% load the fans can spin up to make them louder than my other systems.
The point of being a musician, or another kind of artist, is to share the art, not to make a profit. There's nothing wrong with expecting to make some money off of it, but that should not be the focus.
While I enjoy an occasional heavy metal tune, it's not something I really equate with art. As with most music, it's really entertainment more than anything else as far as I'm concerned. And I don't have a problem with that. And I don't begrudge someone trying to make money from their entertainment work, I think that's silly.
But even it's art, art usually needs to be paid for somehow. I don't think Leonardo gave away his paintings to everyone, he usually demanded money. Do people really not call him a real artist for that? It's possible, but not that I've heard anyway.
and even then we're still talking about the butcher judging his own meat
That analogy really doesn't fit. The beauty of a routine to test modules of code is that the test is the same every time it is run unless the test is changed. A butcher might be a under a different set of circumstances every time the "test" is done.
I don't think it's a complete substitute for other kinds of checking, don't get me wrong about that. But I'm just not convinced that it's a waste of time. For example, it's a good way to quickly test code that was changed against a known and stable set of conditions before you waste other people's time doing a code review of a code change that turns out to be faulty, but could have been caught with a simple run of a test.
Call me prejudiced or whatever, but I think it's also likely that Knuth is prejudiced as well. Maybe he's just the perfect programmer that doesn't make any mistakes in assumptions, design or implementation, or that system he uses somehow catches all those problems in a more efficient manner.
I really don't understand why "nothing needs to be mocked up". In just about any engineering and R&D field that I'm aware of, mockups of various kind are a necessary part of the process of developing a project. I just don't see what's special about software that somehow excludes itself from that sort of task.
I do understand that ideally, unit tests should be done by someone else that's not the programmer of what's being tested, though a client would be rarely, at best, in a position to do them. I don't think unit testing really takes a lot of time if you don't get carried away.
I would agree. I was probably doing "unit tests" in programs before it was given a name. As far as I'm concerned, not doing them is a waste of time, I think I learned it the hard way, so I got in the habit of writing code to test code to make sure it was providing all the right results for several different circumstances. If I make changes, the test is re-run to be sure I didn't miss something.
I think it's possible that this person, despite his earlier genius, has ceased to be as useful as his previous self. Genius is very often like that, they make a good body of work at one point in their life, and their previous success seems to alter them to the point that later work is suspect or just wrong. Sometimes it's ego, other times it's just being stuck in a mental rut, or whatever other reason there may be.
Not all GPUs have to support high end games. There's little reason to have a chip that's as powerful as the nV 8000 series in every computer. It's not necessary, because most people don't play that kind of game. A given computer is more likely to be used with Solitaire than with a demanding 3D game.
The reason there isn't anything to replace what the Shuttle can do was because the Shuttle was a bad idea anyway. One of the few significants thing the Shuttle did that really can't be done is return large objects from orbit, but that was only done a very small number of times. It's much better to have heavy lifters and human ferrying be separate vehicle types, rather than try to do do everything and then some in one craft.
The other major thing the Shuttle did that can't be done by other craft yet, is to repair satellites in orbit. That wasn't used much either. There was Hubble, and I think there's another satellite that was repaired, but the weight of the shuttle really limited the range of satellites that it could reach. I think NASA has learned that it's cheaper to put up a special-built telescope dedicated to a specific mission than it is to upgrade Hubble. And they've put up several such telescopes in the past decade, they all served very well. Hubble has been quite useful, and I do support repairing it, but for the forseeable future, new orbiting telescopes will not be serviceable.
Nineteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death being one example
That's eighteen-hundred-and...
That was more bad weather localized to a few years, due to a catastrophic incident on the other side of the world. Climate is a much longer view, of many decades, not just a few years.
As it is, I don't think it's just an environmental issue anymore. There's now more at stake, and other reasons for us to rethink our energy use. It's now more about national and global politics and economics. Disruptions in energy supplies and other issues mean that there should be more impetus to significantly diversify humanity's energy portfolio.
Proving that consumers were harmed is hard. I really don't see how it can be easily proven to any standard that's even somewhat rigorous. I'm not sure it can be truly proven to any standard that's stricter than a Slashdot-esque handwaving argument.
I'm pretty sure that iTunes has the rights to store & distribute music.
But I think this whole thing is pretty silly, I really don't think online storage of music is infringing, so long as the account in question isn't open to other people to use & copy.
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Sensor size in that case is not measured in megapixels. APS-C is something like 28mm sensor. A typical point and shoot might have something like an 8mm sensor, and the smaller the sensor, the more likely it seems to be able to pick up noise. I think it stands to reason that if you want RAW, you might want to get a unit that's got a bigger / better sensor and lens anyway.
That's a horrible analogy. I do not see it like you describe it at all. In this case, Verizon would be making money on the services, so it's not just about some other entity using the network for free, unless you're fine with an ISP charging both sides on a single client's connection. Just that they can't pick and choose what devices and apps are allowed to take advantage of the services.
This was a condition of the bidding. Verizon did not have to bid. I would take it as more than a bit of bad faith if Verizon bid with no intention of upholding the conditions of the auction.
You should keep in mind is that Apple did say that they were going to make Carbon 64 for Leopard, but dropped it and took their sweet time saying anything about it. In short, Apple announced Carbon 64 WWDC '06, and announced there was no Carbon 64 WWDC '07.
You should also keep in mind that Final Cut Pro and much of the ret of Final Cut Studio is also in Carbon. Apple too is taking their sweet time too. Apple had ten years to push their Pro App developers to Cocoa and have yet to actually make good on a transition.
I guess it's interesting that Apple sells an OS with "Server" in the name. OS X uses a BSD system, but the kernel isn't BSD. The intention was to make it all easier with a GUI front end rather than having to deal with command lines and text files. Not having used OS X server, I don't know how well they do that.
The problem is that "unlimited" is kind of like a buffet. Just because you can go back as often as you want doesn't mean it's right for you to give someone else a plate and tell them to eat as much as they want too on your buffet entry fee, unless you pay for their use of the buffet too.
Electricity and water, as far as I know, is usually not put on "unlimited" plans. You pay for every gallon and every kWhr consumed. You don't pay by the MB, GB or anything like that.
Most of the time, Disney takes public domain stories. Kimba and Pooh are the only two that I'm aware of where Disney used someone else's story that was not public domain. And so far, they haven't blocked a lot of new works based on the original story. If someone made a book based on the Disney version of the story, then I can see why Disney would go after it.
I think Pooh was licensed, and as I understand it, Disney did violate the license later on. To me, the Kimba situation looks like they tried to license the story, maybe even had the rights to it while in production. Ultimately, they didn't have that license (either pulled or fell through) by the time they finished it, so they made a few changes and shipped the movie.
Maybe someone can make a parody build and name it "gNonSense".
For some reason, the multitude of distributions implies that there's just a whole bunch of feuding going on. I don't think it's necessarily the case, but it can mean that, depending on what divisions you look at.
I really don't have an easy answer. Each programmers often has his or her agenda, and without some sort of unifying force, you'll get a lot of different variations, most of which generally aren't an improvement as a whole. In the commercial world, that unifying force is that you're getting paid to do something, and there's usually no choice. You usually can't go and program something the way you want it to be and still get a paycheck. While there are disadvantages there, I think there is some merit too. For one, things move on at a better pace. I can use just about any Windows or OS X machine and know what I'm doing and where to find a file or whatever. Linux is a whole different game in my opinion.
Oddly, I hear computers are harder to please. You miss a closing parenthesis and they'll spit a few hundred errors at you.
Generally the toner cartridges are about $100 ( 50 UKP here for HP ) and the printer won't function if one of the four CMYK carts runs-dry.
Toner only works when it's dry.
NewEgg has a few color laser printers in the $200 range, so I find your post to be highly suspect.
How again? The GP did NOT say the printers were cheap, nor did the GP say that the supplies were cheap. In fact, the GP hinted at the up-front expense:
"Suck it up and buy yourself a color laserjet and you will greatly reduce the cost per page to print a report. "
Yes, the printer and supplies cost more up-front, but they'll also print a LOT more pages before needing another toner cartridge. A factor of ten is not unheard of. A laser print can be pennies a page, an inkjet print can be dimes per page, over a dollar a page for a fill-page photo print.
SSDs are not even close to maxing out the drive interface anyway, so is it really even a relevant consideration?
Unfortunately there's no comparisons of battery life and speed tests with fragmented files.
Is file fragmentation really that big of a problem?
I know at one time I used to defragment a lot, but the difference has always been negligible for me. I only did it with the thought of keeping it "in tune", but even once a year doesn't make much apparent difference in computer performance.
I meant the fan speed on the ATI 1900. I had to have mine replaced by Apple a few weeks ago. Hopefully it doesn't happen again, but I just can't help but think the fan runs too slow for its cooling needs.
The psystar is a *noisy* pc,
Back that up. Just because it's a PC, doesn't mean automatically it's noisy. So far, there aren't any reviews or measurements made that I've seen so far.
I've owned quiet Xeon workstations, as well as quiet desktop systems too. Heck, my G5s have been noisier than my PC Xeon workstation. Among other things, I think the ATI 1900 that Apple used in their Mac Pros have been excessively turned down in speed, they seem to go flaky after a year. Apple has had similar problems with GFX chips in the aluminum iMacs too. The G5s are pretty quiet at idle, but at 20% load the fans can spin up to make them louder than my other systems.
Even if they use the same commodity chips, there's still the engineering behind the boards, power supplies, case and so on.
The point of being a musician, or another kind of artist, is to share the art, not to make a profit. There's nothing wrong with expecting to make some money off of it, but that should not be the focus.
While I enjoy an occasional heavy metal tune, it's not something I really equate with art. As with most music, it's really entertainment more than anything else as far as I'm concerned. And I don't have a problem with that. And I don't begrudge someone trying to make money from their entertainment work, I think that's silly.
But even it's art, art usually needs to be paid for somehow. I don't think Leonardo gave away his paintings to everyone, he usually demanded money. Do people really not call him a real artist for that? It's possible, but not that I've heard anyway.
and even then we're still talking about the butcher judging his own meat
That analogy really doesn't fit. The beauty of a routine to test modules of code is that the test is the same every time it is run unless the test is changed. A butcher might be a under a different set of circumstances every time the "test" is done.
I don't think it's a complete substitute for other kinds of checking, don't get me wrong about that. But I'm just not convinced that it's a waste of time. For example, it's a good way to quickly test code that was changed against a known and stable set of conditions before you waste other people's time doing a code review of a code change that turns out to be faulty, but could have been caught with a simple run of a test.
Call me prejudiced or whatever, but I think it's also likely that Knuth is prejudiced as well. Maybe he's just the perfect programmer that doesn't make any mistakes in assumptions, design or implementation, or that system he uses somehow catches all those problems in a more efficient manner.
I really don't understand why "nothing needs to be mocked up". In just about any engineering and R&D field that I'm aware of, mockups of various kind are a necessary part of the process of developing a project. I just don't see what's special about software that somehow excludes itself from that sort of task.
I do understand that ideally, unit tests should be done by someone else that's not the programmer of what's being tested, though a client would be rarely, at best, in a position to do them. I don't think unit testing really takes a lot of time if you don't get carried away.
I would agree. I was probably doing "unit tests" in programs before it was given a name. As far as I'm concerned, not doing them is a waste of time, I think I learned it the hard way, so I got in the habit of writing code to test code to make sure it was providing all the right results for several different circumstances. If I make changes, the test is re-run to be sure I didn't miss something.
I think it's possible that this person, despite his earlier genius, has ceased to be as useful as his previous self. Genius is very often like that, they make a good body of work at one point in their life, and their previous success seems to alter them to the point that later work is suspect or just wrong. Sometimes it's ego, other times it's just being stuck in a mental rut, or whatever other reason there may be.
Not all GPUs have to support high end games. There's little reason to have a chip that's as powerful as the nV 8000 series in every computer. It's not necessary, because most people don't play that kind of game. A given computer is more likely to be used with Solitaire than with a demanding 3D game.
The reason there isn't anything to replace what the Shuttle can do was because the Shuttle was a bad idea anyway. One of the few significants thing the Shuttle did that really can't be done is return large objects from orbit, but that was only done a very small number of times. It's much better to have heavy lifters and human ferrying be separate vehicle types, rather than try to do do everything and then some in one craft.
The other major thing the Shuttle did that can't be done by other craft yet, is to repair satellites in orbit. That wasn't used much either. There was Hubble, and I think there's another satellite that was repaired, but the weight of the shuttle really limited the range of satellites that it could reach. I think NASA has learned that it's cheaper to put up a special-built telescope dedicated to a specific mission than it is to upgrade Hubble. And they've put up several such telescopes in the past decade, they all served very well. Hubble has been quite useful, and I do support repairing it, but for the forseeable future, new orbiting telescopes will not be serviceable.
Your other examples seem about right, but...
Nineteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death being one example
That's eighteen-hundred-and...
That was more bad weather localized to a few years, due to a catastrophic incident on the other side of the world. Climate is a much longer view, of many decades, not just a few years.
As it is, I don't think it's just an environmental issue anymore. There's now more at stake, and other reasons for us to rethink our energy use. It's now more about national and global politics and economics. Disruptions in energy supplies and other issues mean that there should be more impetus to significantly diversify humanity's energy portfolio.
Proving that consumers were harmed is hard. I really don't see how it can be easily proven to any standard that's even somewhat rigorous. I'm not sure it can be truly proven to any standard that's stricter than a Slashdot-esque handwaving argument.
I'm pretty sure that iTunes has the rights to store & distribute music.
But I think this whole thing is pretty silly, I really don't think online storage of music is infringing, so long as the account in question isn't open to other people to use & copy.