It's not just a matter of the negatives, (color or b&w) so much as it's a matter of how they were developed. Masters like Ansel Adams & co. not only used better film, but they were also much more exacting in how the processed that film. Improperly stopped or fixed negatives (even when carefully stored) can deteriorate remarkably quickly....just ask a careless Photo 1 student. (not me, I was a careful Photo 1 student)
While it seems like a lot of the oil used by the US should go to powering our quad-processor overclocked boxes that sit under our desks, that's not actually true. I seem to recall that Roughly 50% of our electricity is actually generated by coal-fired plants.
Rather, the majority (somewhere between 60-80%) of the oil used in the US becomes gasoline for our cars, planes, &c &c.
If we're to end our dependence on foreign oil, significant changes to the US transportation infrastructure must occur first: either we go electric or we move to a hydrogen economy...both of which present even greater challenges than replacing old coal plants with new reactors. At the very least we'll need a lot more plants simply to generate the additional electricity or to free the hydrogen. Then you get into distributing said additional volts or H2 to all the cars & trucks that need it...
While we can reduce the US dependence on foreign oil slightly. It all comes down to a chicken-egg problem: no-one will buy a hydrogen or electric car until they can purchace the fuel, and no one will build the infrastructure to distribute the fuel until someone wants it. Likely the only thing that will make such a move economically feasible is when the price of gasoline becomes truly expensive...
you can be wildly successful if you're at the right place at the right time with a product that's just good enough for the mission people have in mind.
My! That sounds rather like another database I know of...which one was that? Ah yes Oracle, that's right!
"Right time, right place, right price" has always been the key. The more pollished features (that only capture a few percent of users at the margin) can be added as time goes on. Heck, Oracle didn't even get LOB deletion right until 9i...but for everything else 8i suits you quite nicely.
The thing that really most matters your experience and/or your domain knowledge. If nothing else "real world" experience implies that you're generally familiar with the tools used by development teams that you wouldn't necessarily have needed while you were in college - thinks like source control, and bug/change request systems that simply weren't important for the projects a lone student (or even a team of students) would have used. These tools and habits aren't necessarily difficult, but they do come with time.
Domain knowledge about general ins & outs, terminology, best practices etc. of an industry is also something that employers look for.
Keep in mind that unless you can prove you have either of these, perspective employers are looking at paying you and receiving limited returns whilst you acquire "on the job training".
PS....and no employers really don't value "keeping abreast of industry trends" (reading/., the Reg, &c)
Because of the nature of the internet being tethered to a computer now revolutionary 'Net uptake won't be happening until "pervasive computing becomes a reality.
Newsprint will be with us much much longer than most think: it's portable, has well established & accepted distribution method, and being a passive medium it's much easier on the eyes.
More importantly, keep in mind that the great majority of the voting electorate is made up by older generations. Early adopters of the internet just don't seem to bother with voting, so any changes will likely be a long time in coming.
Finally and most importantly, you should consider the trust relationship inherent in media. I'll return to my favorite newspapers because I trust their reporters to be truly "fair and ballanced" (and I read the ombudsman to make sure of this). As many many phishing scams have demonstrated, anyone can put up a credible web page including 3rd party candidates, we all still need independent media to verify the claims the candidates lay out regardless of where they lay them out.
No no, the Fed had a fall out with Artisan Entertainment. These pictures are being taken on an entirely different sound stage. Interestingly enough, it's the same one that the Air Force used to film the original moon landings.
I kid.
You wouldn't care to expand on your setup would you? I just got a tiBook, and I've been looking to upgrade my audio kit as I work the tiBook in... Thanks!
While this is an interesting thought, I believe this is constitutionally illegal. That was the basis of shutting down all the websites and lists dedicated to "Nader Trading*" before the 2000 election.
No, the only way the Franchise can be bought and sold in the US is through hiring better defense lawyers in felony cases.
*"Nader Trading" - When Gore supporters in more conservative states traded votes with Nader supporters in swing states, so that Gore could beat Bush in the swing states and Nader (who never had a chance anyway) could have a stronger showing in the percentages.
First of all, the people who say that you should simply switch to a structured binary protocol, and get at your messages through casting are right. That'll be a lot faster. But if you're stuck with implementing a WebService then you're stuck with XML.
As for using DOM, I'd argue that you should never use it in a performance critical application. I understand that you need to refer to different parts of the message at concurrently so an event-based parser alone won't work. But what you ought to consider is using a lighter weight representation of your messages than DOM. After all DOM gives you access to alot of information that you really don't need. You might look into XML->object mapping API's like Castor or maybe Betwixt. Or you could just roll your own. That way you could use a quick push parser like SAX to parse the XML, but still have the ability to access all of the message. You might also want to look into the parameters available in your parser, to try and strip it down...maybe turn off validation, DTD's etc...
What would be really great would be if it would support graphical layout of Formatting Objects. I've checked out the available tools and they're unbelievably expensive, and not even very capable: little better than writing the formatting yourself. Something geared towards professional layout rather than simple web layout, or one page layout, would really help to advance this standard as well as the use of XML in general.
Seriously, copyrights, patents, etc. basically give the owner a monopoly on whatever they've come up with. It's good in that it encourages investment to develop it, but it's bad when it prevents others from taking the idea and and building-on or extending it. The real question is at what point does society decide to end the monopoly. None at all is probably not enough but 100 years it probably too much.
This could be a great boon to the independent film "industry!" As they mention in the article, the costs of getting your movie out to distributers would be much much lower...no more copying and mailing huge film reels to each theater (but no more spliced-in single frames of porn either:-( ). Of course, this would only be the case if the encoding software were similarly inexpensive, and with MS cuddling up to Hollywood for DRM, I don't see this happening.
Perhaps, this will provide the impetus to upgrade to digital projection equipment on which someone will implement an open codec...
With no PR build-up, and no listing of new features on RedHat's website (can anyone else find any, because I certainly can't!) this release certainly looks like a bad joke, and if it's not an April Fools then it makes Red Hat look like a bad joke.
I'm using 8.0 now, and RH's games with registration and update-systems combined with their ridiculous "BlueCurve" rebranding (I'm sorry, but it just takes RH even farther away from any sort of standard, and forces it's users to go to RH for software updates), combine to make Red Hat look un-professional. Why should I buy any of their software, if they're just going to come out with a new major version months later and leave me in the dust?
I mean really, what warrents this? Is there a brand new Kernel major version that I've somehow missed hearing about? Does RH have the inside on a new blazingly fast XFree86? If this is serious it's a ridiculous marketing game, and if it's a joke it's wholly unprofessional!
As soon as I've time it's back to the source and on to Gentoo for me!
If you need to hit the DB from some type of programming environment I'd recommend using a DB with an implementation of the XML:DB API. I've been looking at Xindice, and Software AG's Tamino, both of which support the Java XML:DB API, which actually seems rather nice.
As for the speed, I can't comment from personal experience, but according to the Software AG folks it's quite fast even for their customers who are indexing terabytes of data. Of course, that's pr bunny speak so it's to be taken with a grain of salt.
I'm not sure exactly how native XML DB's work, but from my research (e.g.)it seems that implementations are based on hierarchical data bases: e.g. Adabas -> Tamino.
This is coming a bit late to the discussion, but it would be great if someone were to tailor a distro or even provide tools to make a distro specifically towards repeatable installs in a lab environment. Something like that would greatly lower the barriers to entry for school labs. Especially if it were easy enough to update/reinstall machines when one of the students inevitablly roots or screws one of them up. After all most computer lab machines have duplicate setups and simply allow users to log in with a drive mapped, and maybe an open temporary directory. If setting this up could be made simple, I'm sure lots of schools would love to switch, especially when you consider the lower specs needed to run a basic linux machine.
Kamen's wheel chair design is excellent and well worth the money for the disabled, since it gives them much greater access to the existing infrastructure by allowing them to climb stairs. And it lets look people in the eye too, which I guess is good.
Unfortunately with all they hype, the statements that Ginger aka IT would "change the way future cities are designed," good ideas like the wheelchair were lost in the typical dot-com boom of investors trying to join the revolution. Unfortunately revolutions in urban design don't happen, cities are big and people don't like to redesign them very often. (I'd argue that this is why fuel cell/electric/gas/etc. cars will be a long time in coming.)
The amazing thing is that people "in the know" about what "IT" were willing to join the hype. Oh, well just call this natural evolution in business...
And, as a quite note; someone needs to remind IDE users that trying to do striping on the same IDE channel is stupid and if you need to have it explained why - then you are too stupid to have decided to use it in the first place.
That's a really rude attitude towards other users. I'm glad that you realize that, and I'm sure your friends would be impressed by your vast knowledge of IDE RAID...if you hadn't driven them away by beating them about the head with it in the first place.
The attitude of answering all questions with "You don't want to do that: it's stupid, and you're stupid for thinking about it" is utterly counter-productive to the business of an open forum like Slashdot. If that's your opinion, then you're welcome to it, but you don't impress the rest of us by airing it (poorly, I might add). Without any facts to back your opinion up, you leave the rest of us wondering if the performance problems you've encountered were due to your own inability (stupidity you might say) to configure software RAID efficiently.
You've mentioned a lot of good suggestions for names for Bands in your columns. What would you say are bad potential (existing?) band names? And what differentiates them?
you want multiple people to be able to use the same cable connection
everyone in your house wants a PVR but you don't want to duplicate it in every room
you need to record multiple shows on at a given time for analysis (Comm doctoral students do this all the time)
you own a TV store and want to stream programming to multiple show pieces
you just want to be that damn 1337
Really folks, when someone asks a question they don't want to be told why they don't need to know the answer. So, come on, don't send off-topic replys about how pathetic or dumb a question is post a constructive answer!
I may be wrong, but last time I checked, I thought that video4linux cards didn't necessarily support the level of hardware compression available on some cards.
There's a question in and of itself: Which TV output/recording cards work well and quickly? With the low cost of various cards, would it be advisable (possible?) to reserve one for recording and another for playback
Hmmm...This sounds a lot like X-Windows when you set your desktop to be bigger than your monitor's resolution, or when you use virtual screens. Not a particularly revolutionary idea, but could be useful if intuitively applied...
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It's not just a matter of the negatives, (color or b&w) so much as it's a matter of how they were developed. Masters like Ansel Adams & co. not only used better film, but they were also much more exacting in how the processed that film. Improperly stopped or fixed negatives (even when carefully stored) can deteriorate remarkably quickly....just ask a careless Photo 1 student. (not me, I was a careful Photo 1 student)
While it seems like a lot of the oil used by the US should go to powering our quad-processor overclocked boxes that sit under our desks, that's not actually true. I seem to recall that Roughly 50% of our electricity is actually generated by coal-fired plants.
Rather, the majority (somewhere between 60-80%) of the oil used in the US becomes gasoline for our cars, planes, &c &c.
If we're to end our dependence on foreign oil, significant changes to the US transportation infrastructure must occur first: either we go electric or we move to a hydrogen economy...both of which present even greater challenges than replacing old coal plants with new reactors. At the very least we'll need a lot more plants simply to generate the additional electricity or to free the hydrogen. Then you get into distributing said additional volts or H2 to all the cars & trucks that need it...
While we can reduce the US dependence on foreign oil slightly. It all comes down to a chicken-egg problem: no-one will buy a hydrogen or electric car until they can purchace the fuel, and no one will build the infrastructure to distribute the fuel until someone wants it. Likely the only thing that will make such a move economically feasible is when the price of gasoline becomes truly expensive...
I'd also be very curious to see an independent mark of BEA's JRocket JVM, which is supposed to blow Sun and IBM away on X86.
But what's Eddie doing in the accretion disk? I thought he was in the space-time continuum?
So, I'm still wondering: if the "song" is really an "advertisement" for the purposes of regulation, why does it count towards a billboard rating?
And if adds do count, why isn't Moby the top rated artist of all time (by virtue of his popularity on Madison Ave.)?
My! That sounds rather like another database I know of...which one was that? Ah yes Oracle, that's right!
"Right time, right place, right price" has always been the key. The more pollished features (that only capture a few percent of users at the margin) can be added as time goes on. Heck, Oracle didn't even get LOB deletion right until 9i...but for everything else 8i suits you quite nicely.
The thing that really most matters your experience and/or your domain knowledge. If nothing else "real world" experience implies that you're generally familiar with the tools used by development teams that you wouldn't necessarily have needed while you were in college - thinks like source control, and bug/change request systems that simply weren't important for the projects a lone student (or even a team of students) would have used. These tools and habits aren't necessarily difficult, but they do come with time.
Domain knowledge about general ins & outs, terminology, best practices etc. of an industry is also something that employers look for.
Keep in mind that unless you can prove you have either of these, perspective employers are looking at paying you and receiving limited returns whilst you acquire "on the job training".
PS. ...and no employers really don't value "keeping abreast of industry trends" (reading /., the Reg, &c)
Several things to keep in mind:
No no, the Fed had a fall out with Artisan Entertainment. These pictures are being taken on an entirely different sound stage. Interestingly enough, it's the same one that the Air Force used to film the original moon landings. I kid.
You wouldn't care to expand on your setup would you? I just got a tiBook, and I've been looking to upgrade my audio kit as I work the tiBook in... Thanks!
While this is an interesting thought, I believe this is constitutionally illegal. That was the basis of shutting down all the websites and lists dedicated to "Nader Trading*" before the 2000 election.
No, the only way the Franchise can be bought and sold in the US is through hiring better defense lawyers in felony cases.
*"Nader Trading" - When Gore supporters in more conservative states traded votes with Nader supporters in swing states, so that Gore could beat Bush in the swing states and Nader (who never had a chance anyway) could have a stronger showing in the percentages.
"A foolish consistency, is the hobgoblin of little minds."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
First of all, the people who say that you should simply switch to a structured binary protocol, and get at your messages through casting are right. That'll be a lot faster. But if you're stuck with implementing a WebService then you're stuck with XML.
As for using DOM, I'd argue that you should never use it in a performance critical application. I understand that you need to refer to different parts of the message at concurrently so an event-based parser alone won't work. But what you ought to consider is using a lighter weight representation of your messages than DOM. After all DOM gives you access to alot of information that you really don't need. You might look into XML->object mapping API's like Castor or maybe Betwixt. Or you could just roll your own. That way you could use a quick push parser like SAX to parse the XML, but still have the ability to access all of the message. You might also want to look into the parameters available in your parser, to try and strip it down...maybe turn off validation, DTD's etc...
What would be really great would be if it would support graphical layout of Formatting Objects. I've checked out the available tools and they're unbelievably expensive, and not even very capable: little better than writing the formatting yourself. Something geared towards professional layout rather than simple web layout, or one page layout, would really help to advance this standard as well as the use of XML in general.
Two better words:
"Unregulated Monopoly".
Seriously, copyrights, patents, etc. basically give the owner a monopoly on whatever they've come up with. It's good in that it encourages investment to develop it, but it's bad when it prevents others from taking the idea and and building-on or extending it. The real question is at what point does society decide to end the monopoly. None at all is probably not enough but 100 years it probably too much.
This could be a great boon to the independent film "industry!" As they mention in the article, the costs of getting your movie out to distributers would be much much lower...no more copying and mailing huge film reels to each theater (but no more spliced-in single frames of porn either :-( ). Of course, this would only be the case if the encoding software were similarly inexpensive, and with MS cuddling up to Hollywood for DRM, I don't see this happening.
Perhaps, this will provide the impetus to upgrade to digital projection equipment on which someone will implement an open codec...
With no PR build-up, and no listing of new features on RedHat's website (can anyone else find any, because I certainly can't!) this release certainly looks like a bad joke, and if it's not an April Fools then it makes Red Hat look like a bad joke.
I'm using 8.0 now, and RH's games with registration and update-systems combined with their ridiculous "BlueCurve" rebranding (I'm sorry, but it just takes RH even farther away from any sort of standard, and forces it's users to go to RH for software updates), combine to make Red Hat look un-professional. Why should I buy any of their software, if they're just going to come out with a new major version months later and leave me in the dust?
I mean really, what warrents this? Is there a brand new Kernel major version that I've somehow missed hearing about? Does RH have the inside on a new blazingly fast XFree86? If this is serious it's a ridiculous marketing game, and if it's a joke it's wholly unprofessional!
As soon as I've time it's back to the source and on to Gentoo for me!
If you need to hit the DB from some type of programming environment I'd recommend using a DB with an implementation of the XML:DB API. I've been looking at Xindice, and Software AG's Tamino, both of which support the Java XML:DB API, which actually seems rather nice.
As for the speed, I can't comment from personal experience, but according to the Software AG folks it's quite fast even for their customers who are indexing terabytes of data. Of course, that's pr bunny speak so it's to be taken with a grain of salt.
I'm not sure exactly how native XML DB's work, but from my research (e.g.)it seems that implementations are based on hierarchical data bases: e.g. Adabas -> Tamino.
This is coming a bit late to the discussion, but it would be great if someone were to tailor a distro or even provide tools to make a distro specifically towards repeatable installs in a lab environment. Something like that would greatly lower the barriers to entry for school labs. Especially if it were easy enough to update/reinstall machines when one of the students inevitablly roots or screws one of them up. After all most computer lab machines have duplicate setups and simply allow users to log in with a drive mapped, and maybe an open temporary directory. If setting this up could be made simple, I'm sure lots of schools would love to switch, especially when you consider the lower specs needed to run a basic linux machine.
Kamen's wheel chair design is excellent and well worth the money for the disabled, since it gives them much greater access to the existing infrastructure by allowing them to climb stairs. And it lets look people in the eye too, which I guess is good.
Unfortunately with all they hype, the statements that Ginger aka IT would "change the way future cities are designed," good ideas like the wheelchair were lost in the typical dot-com boom of investors trying to join the revolution. Unfortunately revolutions in urban design don't happen, cities are big and people don't like to redesign them very often. (I'd argue that this is why fuel cell/electric/gas/etc. cars will be a long time in coming.)
The amazing thing is that people "in the know" about what "IT" were willing to join the hype. Oh, well just call this natural evolution in business...
Pardon my flame but:
That's a really rude attitude towards other users. I'm glad that you realize that, and I'm sure your friends would be impressed by your vast knowledge of IDE RAID...if you hadn't driven them away by beating them about the head with it in the first place.
The attitude of answering all questions with "You don't want to do that: it's stupid, and you're stupid for thinking about it" is utterly counter-productive to the business of an open forum like Slashdot. If that's your opinion, then you're welcome to it, but you don't impress the rest of us by airing it (poorly, I might add). Without any facts to back your opinion up, you leave the rest of us wondering if the performance problems you've encountered were due to your own inability (stupidity you might say) to configure software RAID efficiently.
You've mentioned a lot of good suggestions for names for Bands in your columns. What would you say are bad potential (existing?) band names? And what differentiates them?
A couple thoughts off the top of my head:
Really folks, when someone asks a question they don't want to be told why they don't need to know the answer. So, come on, don't send off-topic replys about how pathetic or dumb a question is post a constructive answer!
I may be wrong, but last time I checked, I thought that video4linux cards didn't necessarily support the level of hardware compression available on some cards.
There's a question in and of itself: Which TV output/recording cards work well and quickly? With the low cost of various cards, would it be advisable (possible?) to reserve one for recording and another for playback
Hmmm...This sounds a lot like X-Windows when you set your desktop to be bigger than your monitor's resolution, or when you use virtual screens. Not a particularly revolutionary idea, but could be useful if intuitively applied...