There's another group of people who use imaging, and are perhaps more picky about quality than artists.
Radiologists. And they almost all use LCDs. Even in hospitals, when money is no object (or they have budgets that would make you and I quiver in fear).
Because the PTT feature is what makes it different from a phone. If you had VOX on all the time, the phone would just always transmit every conversation you have, while the PTT allows you to use the phone like a big giant 2 way radio network. VOX tends to be useful only when you are in a quiet place and the only reason to speak is to speak into the radio. Almost nobody in Amateur Radio uses VOX. PTT gives you some control over what is heard.
I like how in Slashdot-speak, zero replys always means "correct". I'm not challenging you (I have no idea), but I found it funny that I saw your post, saw that there were no replys and said, yup, must be right...
I love hacking my machine probably more than the average/.er. I run Linux on my server, and do a fair bit of programming for some of the software it runs. But when it comes time to write an English paper, dammit, I want my computer to just work. I want to launch Word, and use it. I want to press print, and have it print. I want to plug in my USB keyfob thingy and have it pop up as a drive. I want to launch Mathematica, and have it just work. I want Premiere and combustion to do my video work, and not have to worry about codecs.
I love Linux for just screwing around, and it's great fun. I can do things in it that would not be possible under Win32. But it doesn't "just work" for the simple stuff. I can make it work without any problem, but that's the thing. I don't want to have to "make it work".
For those who don't get it, chess computers don't really deal with floating point math, but are dependent upon integer calculations. So their FLOPS scores are very low while their MIPS scores are outstanding.
How many of those who would install spam filtering software would ever, ever buy something based upon spam? So, the moral of the story is that we aren't hurting the spammers unless we would buy from them anyway.
With all this whining about the price of "point" release, Apple should take a page from the Sun playbook and call Panther "Mac OS X 3.0" not "Mac OS X 10.3".
Do you have any idea how much Solaris 2.6 cost to get from 2.5? It didn't feel so bad when they started calling it Solairs 7, 8 and 9. (although it's still just SunOS 2.7, 2.8 and 2.9) They aren't just "point" releases, they're really version upgrades, and Apple is just reserving the major version number "Mac OS 11" for when (or if) there is ever another rewrite of the OS, ala OS X itself.
You might find better hits by searching for the phrase "digital radiography". At least that's what it's called in the states. (Computed Radiography isn't really quite the same thing. It would be more like film than DR, which is like a digital camers)
I am thankful for the fact that you risk your life for the citizenry. I have no problem with the way you do your job. Your job is an integral part of keeping us free.
And my job of being a pain in the ass to any one who wants ID, or to speak to me is also integral to me being free. In a court of law, both sides are brutal in stretching their rights and powers, snapping on every last violation of rights, and in general being a pain in the ass to each other. Defense attorneys scour records for their clients to find every last mistake. Yet, without this constant struggle, there would be no true justice.
Likewise, without the constant struggle between you getting your job done and me protecting my rights like a crazed weasel is what keeps us both protected and free. So, yes, if you want to talk to me about where I was some night, I won't do it. If you want to search my home without a warrant, you won't get past the door. It has nothing to do with "fighting back against the man", it is to keep you in line and honest, just as you have the job of keeping me in line and honest.
No. If your life depends on communication, buy and carry (and I mean EVERYWHERE) a cellular phone.
It is the tool that, if used properly, can be one of the most effective urban survival tools in the world, but it does no good away from you. I carry it even in my own home, only taking it off when it's on the desk next to me. If I somehow became injured and unable to walk to a phone in my own home, I have a cell phone.
A landline can be cut, but with a dual-mode cell phone, really, the only time when it can be unavailable is when it is away from you, or off, two things you can always prevent.
I know you are saying this to be funny, but you bring up a good point. FM Radio only a few songs per band. I don't want to pay 20US$ for one song. I want to pat 20US$ for 12 good songs.
Yeah. Why do Formula 1 cars have traction control? Is Kimi Raikkonen not an above average driver?
And tell me, when you are driving down the road, can you brake just your left right wheel? I didn't think so. The Vehicle Skid Control on my car can, though.
Actually, I have every track off Radiohead's Hail to the Theif on MP3. I downloaded them off KaZaA. I burned them to a CD. I listened to it in the car on the way to buy the CD. So, they're not gonna have to work at McDonald's.
Radiohead and other really, really good bands will get my money, simply because I like them. The crap will not, and perhaps, those who aren't good enough to produce more than a few good tracks shouldn't rely on their craft for their income. Consider it shareware. If I like it, I'm morally obligated to pay for it.
ABS is far from passive. Neither is traction control. Neither are airbags.
However, they all allow the car to do things that the driver cannot. Even the best driver cannot react to things as fast as ABS and traction control can. Don't think you can. Some things these devices (like Traction Control) do, like brake single wheels, are things you couldn't do, even if you were a perfect, superhuman driver.
Don't condemn things that are automated. They might just be better than you, no matter how good you are.
SCO sucks too. Surely they're involved with this whole USB thing. Yup. It's SCO and Microsoft. Typing an E-Mail with Outlook Express on a machine running Windows Me. Sent with exchange server. Netware was somehow involved.
For most OSS hackers things that would fall under "development costs" are considered personal expenses. i.e. New computers, caffeine, pizza, beer, etc.
Everything you need for OSS dev (for the most part) is just a large collection of things we consider "toys", and as a result, sort of personal expenses.
Yeah. This actually has made a really big impact on my spending habits, in a recent large purchase.
mbusa.com (I was looking at a C-class) wouldn't let in Opera. bmwusa.com wouldn't let in Opera (didn't look at 330Ci that day) lexus.com would (I fell in love with, and later bought the IS300)
Had I been able to get to the mbusa.com site, I might have fallen in love with the C320 first. But I didn't, so I couldn't have that car up when doing research. Sure, I did more research, but MB's first impression on me was a bad one, so that hurt them in the long run. Car companies just can't afford to piss off a single possible customer (especially one who could become a repeat customer).
There is a pressure sensor. If you step on it within, like within 20 seconds or so of it being in power assist mode, it'll come on. Otherwise, it'll go off and lock to save battery (and be secure) and you're just stepping on a pivoting platform.
The sensors only turn the thing into balance mode, not on from a full power down. That has to be done with the key.
Stepping onto the Segway with it off is no difficult feat. It has two modes, only one of which will balance you. If you want to give it to somebody, you put it into the non-balance mode (Power Assist Mode). If you put your foot on the platform and push it upright, it'll come on, and you step on it, and off you go.
However, if you wait too long, it'll shut off, and when you step up, it won't turn on and you fall on your face. That's almost certainly what happened. (It's happened to me)
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Feh. I stripped the wires of my network drop and tap them on a car battery and recieve by sticking the wires in my mouth.
You people and your "workstations".
There's another group of people who use imaging, and are perhaps more picky about quality than artists.
Radiologists. And they almost all use LCDs. Even in hospitals, when money is no object (or they have budgets that would make you and I quiver in fear).
1. Because it's cool.
2. Beucase it's something we aren't supposed to do.
Because the PTT feature is what makes it different from a phone. If you had VOX on all the time, the phone would just always transmit every conversation you have, while the PTT allows you to use the phone like a big giant 2 way radio network. VOX tends to be useful only when you are in a quiet place and the only reason to speak is to speak into the radio. Almost nobody in Amateur Radio uses VOX. PTT gives you some control over what is heard.
Or stop letting transients use your machine.
I like how in Slashdot-speak, zero replys always means "correct". I'm not challenging you (I have no idea), but I found it funny that I saw your post, saw that there were no replys and said, yup, must be right...
Right on.
/.er. I run Linux on my server, and do a fair bit of programming for some of the software it runs. But when it comes time to write an English paper, dammit, I want my computer to just work. I want to launch Word, and use it. I want to press print, and have it print. I want to plug in my USB keyfob thingy and have it pop up as a drive. I want to launch Mathematica, and have it just work. I want Premiere and combustion to do my video work, and not have to worry about codecs.
I love hacking my machine probably more than the average
I love Linux for just screwing around, and it's great fun. I can do things in it that would not be possible under Win32. But it doesn't "just work" for the simple stuff. I can make it work without any problem, but that's the thing. I don't want to have to "make it work".
For those who don't get it, chess computers don't really deal with floating point math, but are dependent upon integer calculations. So their FLOPS scores are very low while their MIPS scores are outstanding.
Bullshit.
How many of those who would install spam filtering software would ever, ever buy something based upon spam? So, the moral of the story is that we aren't hurting the spammers unless we would buy from them anyway.
With all this whining about the price of "point" release, Apple should take a page from the Sun playbook and call Panther "Mac OS X 3.0" not "Mac OS X 10.3".
Do you have any idea how much Solaris 2.6 cost to get from 2.5? It didn't feel so bad when they started calling it Solairs 7, 8 and 9. (although it's still just SunOS 2.7, 2.8 and 2.9) They aren't just "point" releases, they're really version upgrades, and Apple is just reserving the major version number "Mac OS 11" for when (or if) there is ever another rewrite of the OS, ala OS X itself.
You might find better hits by searching for the phrase "digital radiography". At least that's what it's called in the states. (Computed Radiography isn't really quite the same thing. It would be more like film than DR, which is like a digital camers)
We all know that calling everything terrorism is stupid and a horrible thing for civil liberties.
So, if you go to the Dept. of Homeland Security, you are only telling them that you really believe that this is "terrorism". Don't do it.
I am thankful for the fact that you risk your life for the citizenry. I have no problem with the way you do your job. Your job is an integral part of keeping us free.
And my job of being a pain in the ass to any one who wants ID, or to speak to me is also integral to me being free. In a court of law, both sides are brutal in stretching their rights and powers, snapping on every last violation of rights, and in general being a pain in the ass to each other. Defense attorneys scour records for their clients to find every last mistake. Yet, without this constant struggle, there would be no true justice.
Likewise, without the constant struggle between you getting your job done and me protecting my rights like a crazed weasel is what keeps us both protected and free. So, yes, if you want to talk to me about where I was some night, I won't do it. If you want to search my home without a warrant, you won't get past the door. It has nothing to do with "fighting back against the man", it is to keep you in line and honest, just as you have the job of keeping me in line and honest.
No. If your life depends on communication, buy and carry (and I mean EVERYWHERE) a cellular phone.
It is the tool that, if used properly, can be one of the most effective urban survival tools in the world, but it does no good away from you. I carry it even in my own home, only taking it off when it's on the desk next to me. If I somehow became injured and unable to walk to a phone in my own home, I have a cell phone.
A landline can be cut, but with a dual-mode cell phone, really, the only time when it can be unavailable is when it is away from you, or off, two things you can always prevent.
I know you are saying this to be funny, but you bring up a good point. FM Radio only a few songs per band. I don't want to pay 20US$ for one song. I want to pat 20US$ for 12 good songs.
Yeah. Why do Formula 1 cars have traction control? Is Kimi Raikkonen not an above average driver?
And tell me, when you are driving down the road, can you brake just your left right wheel? I didn't think so. The Vehicle Skid Control on my car can, though.
Actually, I have every track off Radiohead's Hail to the Theif on MP3. I downloaded them off KaZaA. I burned them to a CD. I listened to it in the car on the way to buy the CD. So, they're not gonna have to work at McDonald's.
Radiohead and other really, really good bands will get my money, simply because I like them. The crap will not, and perhaps, those who aren't good enough to produce more than a few good tracks shouldn't rely on their craft for their income. Consider it shareware. If I like it, I'm morally obligated to pay for it.
ABS is far from passive. Neither is traction control. Neither are airbags.
However, they all allow the car to do things that the driver cannot. Even the best driver cannot react to things as fast as ABS and traction control can. Don't think you can. Some things these devices (like Traction Control) do, like brake single wheels, are things you couldn't do, even if you were a perfect, superhuman driver.
Don't condemn things that are automated. They might just be better than you, no matter how good you are.
SCO sucks too. Surely they're involved with this whole USB thing.
...In Soviet Russia.
Yup. It's SCO and Microsoft. Typing an E-Mail with Outlook Express on a machine running Windows Me. Sent with exchange server. Netware was somehow involved.
Development costs?
For most OSS hackers things that would fall under "development costs" are considered personal expenses. i.e. New computers, caffeine, pizza, beer, etc.
Everything you need for OSS dev (for the most part) is just a large collection of things we consider "toys", and as a result, sort of personal expenses.
Yeah. This actually has made a really big impact on my spending habits, in a recent large purchase.
mbusa.com (I was looking at a C-class) wouldn't let in Opera.
bmwusa.com wouldn't let in Opera (didn't look at 330Ci that day)
lexus.com would (I fell in love with, and later bought the IS300)
Had I been able to get to the mbusa.com site, I might have fallen in love with the C320 first. But I didn't, so I couldn't have that car up when doing research. Sure, I did more research, but MB's first impression on me was a bad one, so that hurt them in the long run. Car companies just can't afford to piss off a single possible customer (especially one who could become a repeat customer).
There is a pressure sensor. If you step on it within, like within 20 seconds or so of it being in power assist mode, it'll come on. Otherwise, it'll go off and lock to save battery (and be secure) and you're just stepping on a pivoting platform.
The sensors only turn the thing into balance mode, not on from a full power down. That has to be done with the key.
Stepping onto the Segway with it off is no difficult feat. It has two modes, only one of which will balance you. If you want to give it to somebody, you put it into the non-balance mode (Power Assist Mode). If you put your foot on the platform and push it upright, it'll come on, and you step on it, and off you go.
However, if you wait too long, it'll shut off, and when you step up, it won't turn on and you fall on your face. That's almost certainly what happened. (It's happened to me)
Would a mechanical hack be possible? Could one simply turn parts (the head assembly) of your DVD-R around to get this to work? Hrmmm...
No. There's no comparison. One was the head of an evil empire, the other is the head of the Evil Empire.