OK, so you're saying Russians are guilty because NASA fucked up the Shuttle program. Is it just me or someone else thinks this reasoning is funny?
Let's not forget that the sole reason why ANYONE is still up there is because Russians have more reliable transport spacecraft.
"NASA is going to try, blah blah blah..." Try to fix your shuttle program first, then move on to Mars program. Until then, outsourse the Mars program to Russia. They've already done much of the "isolated ecosystem" work, here on Earth.
For me DVDs are good enough already if we're talking about movies. I'm not gonna buy a HDTV set until it goes below $1K in price for a decent size widescreen TV.
I want 35GB per disk for photo backups. I generate about 10GB of data in a "slow" month (mostly 4000dpi film scans), so my hard drives fill up pretty quickly.
Jesus Christ, they've been talking about this shit for years and yet there's not a single recorder/player available. Do what Apple does - don't talk about shit until it's ready.
That's BS. Everything is covered by COW in Windows. You never load the same DLL twice, and data segments are COW'd for all processes using the same DLL.
Have you heard of page sharing and copy-on-write? Most of these 80MB is shared between two instances of the app. At the same time fore each of the processes it looks like it has 80MB of code and data loaded. In reality both processes have the same thing, except for pages that differ. So code DLLs are mapped to the same areas of physical RAM and data segments are only in physically different locations if they've been written into.
Yet windows task manager shows 80MB anyway, because that's what individual processes see.
Wasn't Linus saying this all along? And now a strong competitor comes in and he gets all whiny about it. What is this? I kind of didn't expect this from the guy in his status.
Yup. There's a difference. If you want stylish you get a Mac. They innovate, they set the standards. If you want trendy, you get a Mac rip-off.
I'm a fairly recent convert, and I'm convinced Apple offers superior product in the upper end of the market, and does it for not that much more than what you'd spend on a comparable PC.
Once they become leads or managers they favor other Indian programmers. If you're under lead who also has a couple Indian reports, in 80% of the cases it's time for you to move on, because your career growth is over.
These things are incredibly hard to put on, especially when you need to do this quickly and/or have a large dick. It would be cool if there was a technology that would allow the condoms to be larger so that they're easier to put on, and then they'd shrink to the size because of body heat, or something.
Tell me where this "unsecured" radioactive materials are in the former USSR. I grew up there, and I can tell you right now - there's not a single warhead lying anywhere unguarded.
I understand the math behind it. But still if you look at it the pricing is way up there, even considering this math. I do agree that they're not a charity, but personally I can't shell out a thousand bucks for matlab with dsp extensions.
You're allowed to run whatever the heck you want as long as there's a business reason to do so. In fact, at one time I had a RedHat box under my desk and ran MySQL on it, and I used MySQL quite extensively on Windows as well, until I figured out the architecture that allowed me to do bulk inserts into MS SQL backend. I know for a fact that lots of folks run unix command line tools, emacs, firefox, etc.
Depth of field (AKA DOF) depends on three things. Focal length, subject distance and aperture. "Pocket" digicams have very short focal lengths, around 7mm on the wide end. This makes DOF very deep at reasonable subject distances.
7mm lenses for 35mm and APS cameras simply don't exist. The widest rectilinear lenses only go to 12mm, and at 12 mm you can observe the same thing as with pocket digicams - very deep DOF.
Now if you put on a 35mm f/2 lens, you get to see the "narrow" DOF, and if you use 70-200mm f/2.8 lens, open it to f/2.8, and position your subject close to the camera your DOF will be paper-thin (i.e. tip of the nose is in focus, eyes aren't).
You simply can't do this with a camera whose lens tops off at 25mm, and has a max aperture of f/8 at this focal length (which is what pocket digicams often have at the long end of their range).
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OK, so you're saying Russians are guilty because NASA fucked up the Shuttle program. Is it just me or someone else thinks this reasoning is funny?
Let's not forget that the sole reason why ANYONE is still up there is because Russians have more reliable transport spacecraft.
"NASA is going to try, blah blah blah..." Try to fix your shuttle program first, then move on to Mars program. Until then, outsourse the Mars program to Russia. They've already done much of the "isolated ecosystem" work, here on Earth.
For me DVDs are good enough already if we're talking about movies. I'm not gonna buy a HDTV set until it goes below $1K in price for a decent size widescreen TV.
I want 35GB per disk for photo backups. I generate about 10GB of data in a "slow" month (mostly 4000dpi film scans), so my hard drives fill up pretty quickly.
Next thing you know - they'll start using the "internets"!
Jesus Christ, they've been talking about this shit for years and yet there's not a single recorder/player available. Do what Apple does - don't talk about shit until it's ready.
I see it in my head - green faced alien on stereo-TV is talking about GWB, an evil tyrant and merciless baby killer.
No, they won't be copied.
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Shared DLLs are covered by COW. Google for more info.
So no, they won't be "liberated".
But NT supported COW since its inception.
That's BS. Everything is covered by COW in Windows. You never load the same DLL twice, and data segments are COW'd for all processes using the same DLL.
Have you heard of page sharing and copy-on-write? Most of these 80MB is shared between two instances of the app. At the same time fore each of the processes it looks like it has 80MB of code and data loaded. In reality both processes have the same thing, except for pages that differ. So code DLLs are mapped to the same areas of physical RAM and data segments are only in physically different locations if they've been written into.
Yet windows task manager shows 80MB anyway, because that's what individual processes see.
I mean, seriously. I doubt anyone here would even notice if they were all fired.
So this guy is no Milton
the health of the rest of the system is monitored, and what are you gonna do if it comes to wrong conclusions?
Wasn't Linus saying this all along? And now a strong competitor comes in and he gets all whiny about it. What is this? I kind of didn't expect this from the guy in his status.
Yup. There's a difference. If you want stylish you get a Mac. They innovate, they set the standards. If you want trendy, you get a Mac rip-off.
I'm a fairly recent convert, and I'm convinced Apple offers superior product in the upper end of the market, and does it for not that much more than what you'd spend on a comparable PC.
iMac G5 20" - that's stylish. But that's not a PC.
Once they become leads or managers they favor other Indian programmers. If you're under lead who also has a couple Indian reports, in 80% of the cases it's time for you to move on, because your career growth is over.
It's cultural, and it's unfortunate.
These things are incredibly hard to put on, especially when you need to do this quickly and/or have a large dick. It would be cool if there was a technology that would allow the condoms to be larger so that they're easier to put on, and then they'd shrink to the size because of body heat, or something.
A _scientist_ buried _plutonium_ in his own back yard. Man, they put all kinds of bullshit in papers these days.
Tell me where this "unsecured" radioactive materials are in the former USSR. I grew up there, and I can tell you right now - there's not a single warhead lying anywhere unguarded.
Nuff said.
I understand the math behind it. But still if you look at it the pricing is way up there, even considering this math. I do agree that they're not a charity, but personally I can't shell out a thousand bucks for matlab with dsp extensions.
You're allowed to run whatever the heck you want as long as there's a business reason to do so. In fact, at one time I had a RedHat box under my desk and ran MySQL on it, and I used MySQL quite extensively on Windows as well, until I figured out the architecture that allowed me to do bulk inserts into MS SQL backend. I know for a fact that lots of folks run unix command line tools, emacs, firefox, etc.
Have you checked out the pricing on math products lately? I have. It's freakin' stratospheric, and then they nickel and dime you for extensions.
My main issue with this pricing structure is that a hobbyist like myself simply can't justify the expense. And that's very unfortunate.
Depth of field (AKA DOF) depends on three things. Focal length, subject distance and aperture. "Pocket" digicams have very short focal lengths, around 7mm on the wide end. This makes DOF very deep at reasonable subject distances.
7mm lenses for 35mm and APS cameras simply don't exist. The widest rectilinear lenses only go to 12mm, and at 12 mm you can observe the same thing as with pocket digicams - very deep DOF.
Now if you put on a 35mm f/2 lens, you get to see the "narrow" DOF, and if you use 70-200mm f/2.8 lens, open it to f/2.8, and position your subject close to the camera your DOF will be paper-thin (i.e. tip of the nose is in focus, eyes aren't).
You simply can't do this with a camera whose lens tops off at 25mm, and has a max aperture of f/8 at this focal length (which is what pocket digicams often have at the long end of their range).