Personally, I don't want the camera manufacturer telling me what software I can use to read my photographs. Would you accept it if Nikon told you you were only allowed to get prints using Fuji labs?
I also don't want my photo library to depend on some secret file format that may end up being completely unsupported and unreadable in ten years' time. What if Linux takes over the desktop, but Nikon decide not to bother with a file format reader for Linux? What if Nikon go out of business, and Windows 2010 can't run the plugin to read your library of thousands of images?
I absolutely demand that all my photos be in an open, documented file format. And I think you're being foolhardy not to demand likewise.
Sure, you can use the RAW converter on each image as you take them, convert to a sensible format like PNG, and store that--but you're losing information by doing so, making the Nikon a much less appealing and less professional camera.
The really professional companies like Hasselblad understand this, and have committed to Adobe's open DNG raw format. I wouldn't buy any camera that pretended to be "professional" but didn't support DNG or some other open file format.
The early stages of hard drive failure are typically confined to certain areas of the disk. Unless he's installing software every day, he probably never writes executable code to those parts of the disk; the executable code on a Windows machine tends to be pretty static. Whereas if he's constantly shuffling around MP3s, porn, and the like, it's quite likely some multimedia files he downloads will end up across the sectors that are slowly failing.
I say this because (a) it happened to me and (b) I've worked in data recovery and seen it happen to other people.
For all the talk about it, I don't think I've ever actually known anyone to do the classic accidental rm -Rf / as root.
My one-time boss did. He typed rm -rf/tmp/somedir, except his thumb accidentally bumped the space bar after the first slash and he didn't notice until after pressing return.
You cannot honestly tell me that the OSS Community couldn't develop something to support AX and maintain security.
Sure I can. ActiveX controls are native code, and have access to any API in Windows. They run with the full permissions of the user running the browser, which is generally an administrative user because so many applications break if you run them as a non-admin user. Hence ActiveX is inherently insecure--sure, you can have code signing, but once that ActiveX control runs, it can do anything from formatting the hard drive to rewriting the BIOS. The only way to make it "safe" would be to run the entire thing in a virtual machine--basically, have a VMware-like virtual Windows to run your ActiveX controls in. Which would probably ruin the point of most of them, because typically people use ActiveX when they want access to the local hard drive etc.
I have listened to music that sounds pretty good, but after the 10th playing it starts skipping. Or it could be those skips are not very noticable when first played, but once identified, they become annoying.
1. Many of the companies' offerings are substitution goods. Most web developers I know are shelling out for the MM Studio MX upgrades and the Adobe CS upgrades. That works out to about $1000 every year. I doubt one company will be able to squeeze us for as much in a single upgrade cycle.
Ah, but now they'll have absolutely no competition. Don't like paying $1000 a year? Fine, go back to Paint Shop Pro and jEdit...
I found out a collection agency wanted $5k from me. First I knew was when it turned up on my credit report. In two years, they had made no attempt to contact me at the addresses shown to be active on said credit report. I had to waste my time and money writing, printing and mailing documents telling them to go away because the alleged debt was incurred in a city I'd never been to, on behalf of a company who should have known that I was actually a customer of theirs on the other side of the country the whole time.
If you try to contact the collection agency or credit rating agency, they'll try to make you jump through all kinds of hoops. The best thing is to go straight to the FTC and download their template for an affidavit, write one up including all the relevant proof, send it in via certified mail, then just reply to every subsequent letter with "Read the affidavit and stop harassing me" until they get the hint.
If I request a catalog via mail, I still don't have to read it. If I request a newspaper subscription, I still don't have to read the ads. If I request a web page via HTTP, I don't have to read the ads either.
Fine so if I pay for a site I should be able to put what I want on it correct? So if I am paying for it then I have every right to put ads on it!
Yes, and I have every right to ignore them.
Since it is my site and I am paying for it then you really do not have the right to change how it is displayed.
No, your rights end at my front door. You don't have the right to force me to look at ads, even if they're on the web site you pay for--just like the junk mail people don't have the right to make me open and read the mail they pay to send, and the newspaper doesn't have the right to stop me throwing out the advertising supplements they pay to print.
In that case, they should do some estate planning.
Once they're dead, if they haven't planned for the disposal of the estate it's anyone's guess what they wanted, and whining about "Oh, I know he wouldn't have wanted the government to get any" is disingenuous.
The estate tax is, primarily a way to redistribute wealth in an attempt to prevent permanent pseudo-nobility by limiting the number of generations across which nearly-infinite wealth can remain nearly infinite.
You can argue about whether this is a good thing or not (in my opinion, it is not), but you can not argue that this (and not "revenue generation") is the primary purpose of this tax.
I suspect that whether a person thinks preventing a permanent aristocracy is a good idea or not, correlates quite strongly with whether that person is likely to become a member of the permanent aristocracy...
In any event, the silver spoon tax in the USA doesn't seem to have prevented dynasties like the Bush and Gore families, so it apparently isn't severe enough even to achieve its intended purpose, let alone be the kind of onerous burden some make it out to be.
Well, that's where reputation comes in. The best thing to do is to have a reputation for honesty, and to counter libel with fact. (Speaking as someone who's had some crazy woman falsely claim sexual assault...)
Well, LiveJournal's abuse team is totally random in their judgements. I got terminated for posting information about someone which the guy himself published (and continues to publish) on his own personal web site.
The best thing to do is stay away from 'services' like LiveJournal.
If he needs to be pressured into the margins, then let's pressure him by attaching jumper cables Saddam-style to his scrotum.
No, let's do it American style. Think of all the American torturers who need to earn an honest living. They can't all get jobs at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo or Mosul.
But the reason it's better is that it's open source. There were plenty of proprietary Unix clones for x86 around before Linux (as well as real UNIX), and they all sucked in comparison. I know because I was there and I used them...
VIA S3 Savage can boot straight to TV. Use a VIA M10000 or similar Mini-ITX for your HPC and you'll be able to run Linux with open source drivers for everything, and boot to TV.
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Personally, I don't want the camera manufacturer telling me what software I can use to read my photographs. Would you accept it if Nikon told you you were only allowed to get prints using Fuji labs?
I also don't want my photo library to depend on some secret file format that may end up being completely unsupported and unreadable in ten years' time. What if Linux takes over the desktop, but Nikon decide not to bother with a file format reader for Linux? What if Nikon go out of business, and Windows 2010 can't run the plugin to read your library of thousands of images?
I absolutely demand that all my photos be in an open, documented file format. And I think you're being foolhardy not to demand likewise.
Sure, you can use the RAW converter on each image as you take them, convert to a sensible format like PNG, and store that--but you're losing information by doing so, making the Nikon a much less appealing and less professional camera.
The really professional companies like Hasselblad understand this, and have committed to Adobe's open DNG raw format. I wouldn't buy any camera that pretended to be "professional" but didn't support DNG or some other open file format.
I'm not going into anything, I'm sitting at home on the sofa. Try and make your analogies bear at least a slight resemblance to the actual situation.
IE gives users exactly that choice of whether to run ActiveX controls or not. It doesn't solve the problem, as you may have noticed.
The early stages of hard drive failure are typically confined to certain areas of the disk. Unless he's installing software every day, he probably never writes executable code to those parts of the disk; the executable code on a Windows machine tends to be pretty static. Whereas if he's constantly shuffling around MP3s, porn, and the like, it's quite likely some multimedia files he downloads will end up across the sectors that are slowly failing.
I say this because (a) it happened to me and (b) I've worked in data recovery and seen it happen to other people.
My one-time boss did. He typed rm -rf /tmp/somedir, except his thumb accidentally bumped the space bar after the first slash and he didn't notice until after pressing return.
After that, I got the job of sysadmin...
Sure I can. ActiveX controls are native code, and have access to any API in Windows. They run with the full permissions of the user running the browser, which is generally an administrative user because so many applications break if you run them as a non-admin user. Hence ActiveX is inherently insecure--sure, you can have code signing, but once that ActiveX control runs, it can do anything from formatting the hard drive to rewriting the BIOS. The only way to make it "safe" would be to run the entire thing in a virtual machine--basically, have a VMware-like virtual Windows to run your ActiveX controls in. Which would probably ruin the point of most of them, because typically people use ActiveX when they want access to the local hard drive etc.
I suspect your hard drive is failing.
Ah, but now they'll have absolutely no competition. Don't like paying $1000 a year? Fine, go back to Paint Shop Pro and jEdit...
Well, I'm sure Ebert and Roeper will like this new interface.
Wow, maybe the troll finally got banned. Small consolation...
I don't gripe, I just skip them. Like the web and TV.
I found out a collection agency wanted $5k from me. First I knew was when it turned up on my credit report. In two years, they had made no attempt to contact me at the addresses shown to be active on said credit report. I had to waste my time and money writing, printing and mailing documents telling them to go away because the alleged debt was incurred in a city I'd never been to, on behalf of a company who should have known that I was actually a customer of theirs on the other side of the country the whole time.
If you try to contact the collection agency or credit rating agency, they'll try to make you jump through all kinds of hoops. The best thing is to go straight to the FTC and download their template for an affidavit, write one up including all the relevant proof, send it in via certified mail, then just reply to every subsequent letter with "Read the affidavit and stop harassing me" until they get the hint.
If I request a catalog via mail, I still don't have to read it. If I request a newspaper subscription, I still don't have to read the ads. If I request a web page via HTTP, I don't have to read the ads either.
The NSA headquarters aren't blurred or 'cleaned'. However, they know who's looking at the image...
Yes, and I have every right to ignore them.
No, your rights end at my front door. You don't have the right to force me to look at ads, even if they're on the web site you pay for--just like the junk mail people don't have the right to make me open and read the mail they pay to send, and the newspaper doesn't have the right to stop me throwing out the advertising supplements they pay to print.
In that case, they should do some estate planning.
Once they're dead, if they haven't planned for the disposal of the estate it's anyone's guess what they wanted, and whining about "Oh, I know he wouldn't have wanted the government to get any" is disingenuous.
The person who owns the money is dead. The way I see it, you can't steal money from a dead person.
I suspect that whether a person thinks preventing a permanent aristocracy is a good idea or not, correlates quite strongly with whether that person is likely to become a member of the permanent aristocracy...
In any event, the silver spoon tax in the USA doesn't seem to have prevented dynasties like the Bush and Gore families, so it apparently isn't severe enough even to achieve its intended purpose, let alone be the kind of onerous burden some make it out to be.
Well, that's where reputation comes in. The best thing to do is to have a reputation for honesty, and to counter libel with fact. (Speaking as someone who's had some crazy woman falsely claim sexual assault...)
Well, LiveJournal's abuse team is totally random in their judgements. I got terminated for posting information about someone which the guy himself published (and continues to publish) on his own personal web site.
The best thing to do is stay away from 'services' like LiveJournal.
No, let's do it American style. Think of all the American torturers who need to earn an honest living. They can't all get jobs at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo or Mosul.
Really? What if they've already published the information themselves on their own web site?
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But the reason it's better is that it's open source. There were plenty of proprietary Unix clones for x86 around before Linux (as well as real UNIX), and they all sucked in comparison. I know because I was there and I used them...
I cordially propose that the default prompt of your new shell be changed to
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for reasons which should be obvious.
VIA S3 Savage can boot straight to TV. Use a VIA M10000 or similar Mini-ITX for your HPC and you'll be able to run Linux with open source drivers for everything, and boot to TV.