I have a stack of the annual results a half a foot high on my desk going back to the 70s.
Stack up all the economic pluses generated in companies by the advances that have come out from NASA, divide by what the missions cost, I believe you get a number greater that 1.
Jim Motavalli drove one for the NYT. The article is now a pay item, but this was back in June and he had it for a week in the Fairfield CT area. Ya'd think Danny Hakim also of the NYT would have known this. Note to the Spallinos: DON"T RUN OUT OF FUEL. Motavelli's ran out and had to be trucked to near Albany just to reload it. The local FD probably doesn't know what hoops to jump thru yet. I'll bet there's a gases dealer nearby that could put a simple hydrogen station to shame. I'd worry about the local propane or natural gas tanks based on energy density and sheer amounts long before I'd worry about a hydrogen tank (it's about 2:1 energy per mass hydrogen : natural gas)
At least with any Cingular phone I've run across, get it within a few feet of any powered speakers (the unplugged signal but powered on mini-stereo to my Cambridge PCWorks is the test on my desk, my Sony clock radio suffices at home) and you'll hear a wicked chatter when anything comes across - sms, call, etc., and every so often when the phone's doing "nothing".
If you're going to quote Stewart Brand, please get it right:
"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."
I got the pages from the 1930 census - the first one my father was on - there is a category for whether they had a radio in the house or not. He didn't but the Camarco family next door did. Yes, I teased him about it.
or the next/. poll (the EULA on has ivy growing on it)
Windows drives company to...... drink... jump out window... kinda sorta unix(ish) OSX... beowulf cluster of Timex Sinclairs... go postal... go back to abacuses (abaci?)... OpenBSD
Well, gosh, there's pretty much the same rules in the military, and they do just fine.
Right?
*crickets*
No, really, I kid, I kid. But...
Seeing how you can now buy your way onto an official mission, why not the rest of the crew pony up the money to pay the way for - hmmm - how can I put this - oh, I dunno - let's call them a "companion" - heck, you could even have them in their own isolable / detachable - oh, I dunnno - "shuttle" in case things got too weird. Triple check with the folks in Nevada, but Joss^H^H^H^H NASA may have solved their own problem.
I want a digital that will take pictures with no-lag, "B" shutter, a TTL flash as deep and adaptable as my Series 1 (e-TTL needs a pre-flash), for a price in the neighborhood of the trusty SLR (no, I won't pay extra because I'll never buy film again - that has nothing to do with the equipment cost anymore) Right now that's $1000 for the package. AND processing that can do what my trusty enlarger can do. Right now that's $2100 - G5 iMac 2.1 + Aperture or Photoshop CS
"This reality is not going to change. In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer...."
Hold on - because I'm not willing to subject myself to an intentionally crippled, mee-too operating system with world-class-ly obtuse interface elements, the worst security record on the planet, a loaded-dice browser and a word processor with over 1,100 menu items, I'm an unfit judge of technology?
At least even as a mac user I know you can put the windows task bar on another edge of the screen - something that never ceases to cause ark-of-the-covenant-blinding awe in the vast majority of windows users when I do it.
Which may only be topped by the revelation that you can take the marketing stickers off your laptop case. I've seen them five years old on the palmrest and rubbed raw.
Which is only topped by my taking the features sticker off the DISPLAY of the year-old digital camera I was handed the other day to take photo as a favor...
Please John, take off the tinfoil hat and do some journalism.
...Looks great - the tour is stunning, and the metaphor is a breath of fresh air. A loupe - a light table - the ability to see thumbnails and versions on the table while you work. Heads up displays that give you back your window. They've obviously talked to a lot pf photographers, many of whom are likely sick of the tunnel vision interface of just about every app, PS included - that makes them stop acting like a photographer. I'm in the same boat. I've recently gone back to my professional 35mm SLR outfit that cost me a whopping $600 back in the day, and does what I want, and can make archival 11x14 prints that blow you away.
Most affordable digital cameras a great for taking a picture of something that is rock solid and in no danger of moving and is under optimal lighting conditions. After two weddings as a guest just trying to shoot candids, I realize that there's very little art in using a current digital camera, that it mostly involves holding this small brick between you and something and trusting it to make a series of decisions you might not agree with all while making sure you just heard the right beep, saw the right LED and heard the right little ticky thingy. And I'm a geek.
I've decided to retire my series of cameras (3, 4, 5 MP - they were all supposed to be so much better than the last one...) or donate them or something, and hunker down until something on the order of the EOS and this level of image handling gets reasonable. By hunker down I mean shoot with real film and a flash that goes more than 10 feet and something like decent response time. All of which I have in a 20 year old Pentax outfit. yes, I know it's ten times the volume and weight when outfitted with a TTL flash and zoom and winder. Yes, I know that if I pay thru the nose now for the EOS and a G5 and Aperture I'll save all that money on film - but film is a dribbling expense. And yes I know the COLA on a $600 camera from the 1980s is probably on the order of an EOS today, but I can still get a comparable new 35mm setup for the same $600 today.
And honest to god - as with cell phones - it's not like I was wasting away and spent every hour before digital cameras wanting to take a picture and every five minutes wishing I could be making a phone call back in the era "BC" (before cellphones). (Ooooh! Then there's taking pictures with my phone! Or should I be calling people on my camera?! Wait, wait - if I could only email from my toaster...!)
For many instances, digital cameras are quick, cheap, and OK. Honestly, 99% of them should be compared to compact point and click cameras for actual performance - but the hype of their early days has failed to solidify
(a) no surprises yet - you can't stop migrating birds - especially during migration season; (b) if/. is the place you're finally hearing about this - we need to talk.
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Bush's original draft read "that whole deal used to transmogrify data over teh Interweb"
I have a stack of the annual results a half a foot high on my desk going back to the 70s.
Stack up all the economic pluses generated in companies by the advances that have come out from NASA, divide by what the missions cost, I believe you get a number greater that 1.
And yes, include the golf clubs.
My neighbors can get a $20 pair of binoculars at WalMart and watch what's on my unsecured TV set through the living room window.
Lock me up.
This is like telling muggers to knock themselves out trying, then arretsing the victims.
... the whole is a massive waste of time and money.
Except there's spinoff - literally and figuratively.
Yo, peep dis: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/
That'll slow'em down.
I guess this also means the tollbooth trick didn't work the way it did in Rock Ridge...
Jim Motavalli drove one for the NYT. The article is now a pay item, but this was back in June and he had it for a week in the Fairfield CT area. Ya'd think Danny Hakim also of the NYT would have known this. Note to the Spallinos: DON"T RUN OUT OF FUEL. Motavelli's ran out and had to be trucked to near Albany just to reload it. The local FD probably doesn't know what hoops to jump thru yet. I'll bet there's a gases dealer nearby that could put a simple hydrogen station to shame. I'd worry about the local propane or natural gas tanks based on energy density and sheer amounts long before I'd worry about a hydrogen tank (it's about 2:1 energy per mass hydrogen : natural gas)
At least with any Cingular phone I've run across, get it within a few feet of any powered speakers (the unplugged signal but powered on mini-stereo to my Cambridge PCWorks is the test on my desk, my Sony clock radio suffices at home) and you'll hear a wicked chatter when anything comes across - sms, call, etc., and every so often when the phone's doing "nothing".
Not that it's a good bet, but when lawyers agree to a cap on complex litigation, there's usually a 1/3 award fee at the other end...
... are we supposed to put in our bird cages? Huh? HUH!?
See, nobody thinks of these things before they haul off and invent something like teh interweb.
What are we supposed to do with all this bird poop?
Oh, wait - there's plenty of blogs to fill. Never mind.
If you're going to quote Stewart Brand, please get it right:
"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."
Anything else is a self-serving edit.
Have you TRIED the settings on any toaster you care pull off a shelf?
I have yet to find a toaster that *doesn't* have a mind of its own.
I got the pages from the 1930 census - the first one my father was on - there is a category for whether they had a radio in the house or not. He didn't but the Camarco family next door did. Yes, I teased him about it.
We're just that much closer to the complete works of shakespeare being spit out any time now...
... finally - a problem to go with his zero-button mouse solution!
...to come up with a frickin' shark that can keep up wih these new lasers.
or the next /. poll (the EULA on has ivy growing on it)
... drink ... jump out window ... kinda sorta unix(ish) OSX ... beowulf cluster of Timex Sinclairs ... go postal ... go back to abacuses (abaci?) ... OpenBSD
Windows drives company to...
... on /. on Sept 20, Sept 15 ...
Apple's # 64, in 1987.
Microsoft as usual played catch up in 1991, according to WHOIS records...
Well, gosh, there's pretty much the same rules in the military, and they do just fine.
Right?
*crickets*
No, really, I kid, I kid. But...
Seeing how you can now buy your way onto an official mission, why not the rest of the crew pony up the money to pay the way for - hmmm - how can I put this - oh, I dunno - let's call them a "companion" - heck, you could even have them in their own isolable / detachable - oh, I dunnno - "shuttle" in case things got too weird. Triple check with the folks in Nevada, but Joss^H^H^H^H NASA may have solved their own problem.
I want a digital that will take pictures with no-lag, "B" shutter, a TTL flash as deep and adaptable as my Series 1 (e-TTL needs a pre-flash), for a price in the neighborhood of the trusty SLR (no, I won't pay extra because I'll never buy film again - that has nothing to do with the equipment cost anymore)
Right now that's $1000 for the package.
AND
processing that can do what my trusty enlarger can do.
Right now that's $2100 - G5 iMac 2.1 + Aperture or Photoshop CS
"This reality is not going to change. In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer...."
Hold on - because I'm not willing to subject myself to an intentionally crippled, mee-too operating system with world-class-ly obtuse interface elements, the worst security record on the planet, a loaded-dice browser and a word processor with over 1,100 menu items, I'm an unfit judge of technology?
At least even as a mac user I know you can put the windows task bar on another edge of the screen - something that never ceases to cause ark-of-the-covenant-blinding awe in the vast majority of windows users when I do it.
Which may only be topped by the revelation that you can take the marketing stickers off your laptop case. I've seen them five years old on the palmrest and rubbed raw.
Which is only topped by my taking the features sticker off the DISPLAY of the year-old digital camera I was handed the other day to take photo as a favor...
Please John, take off the tinfoil hat and do some journalism.
...Looks great - the tour is stunning, and the metaphor is a breath of fresh air. A loupe - a light table - the ability to see thumbnails and versions on the table while you work. Heads up displays that give you back your window. They've obviously talked to a lot pf photographers, many of whom are likely sick of the tunnel vision interface of just about every app, PS included - that makes them stop acting like a photographer. I'm in the same boat. I've recently gone back to my professional 35mm SLR outfit that cost me a whopping $600 back in the day, and does what I want, and can make archival 11x14 prints that blow you away.
Most affordable digital cameras a great for taking a picture of something that is rock solid and in no danger of moving and is under optimal lighting conditions. After two weddings as a guest just trying to shoot candids, I realize that there's very little art in using a current digital camera, that it mostly involves holding this small brick between you and something and trusting it to make a series of decisions you might not agree with all while making sure you just heard the right beep, saw the right LED and heard the right little ticky thingy. And I'm a geek.
I've decided to retire my series of cameras (3, 4, 5 MP - they were all supposed to be so much better than the last one...) or donate them or something, and hunker down until something on the order of the EOS and this level of image handling gets reasonable. By hunker down I mean shoot with real film and a flash that goes more than 10 feet and something like decent response time. All of which I have in a 20 year old Pentax outfit. yes, I know it's ten times the volume and weight when outfitted with a TTL flash and zoom and winder. Yes, I know that if I pay thru the nose now for the EOS and a G5 and Aperture I'll save all that money on film - but film is a dribbling expense. And yes I know the COLA on a $600 camera from the 1980s is probably on the order of an EOS today, but I can still get a comparable new 35mm setup for the same $600 today.
And honest to god - as with cell phones - it's not like I was wasting away and spent every hour before digital cameras wanting to take a picture and every five minutes wishing I could be making a phone call back in the era "BC" (before cellphones). (Ooooh! Then there's taking pictures with my phone! Or should I be calling people on my camera?! Wait, wait - if I could only email from my toaster...!)
For many instances, digital cameras are quick, cheap, and OK. Honestly, 99% of them should be compared to compact point and click cameras for actual performance - but the hype of their early days has failed to solidify
... that they've been picked up and moved to Pougkeepsie. (That's where Dutchess County is.)
(a) no surprises yet - you can't stop migrating birds - especially during migration season; /. is the place you're finally hearing about this - we need to talk.
(b) if
-er *no carrier*