yeah - I thought that funny before but my wife carries XX*1K$ worth of camera equipment on back pack round the world. Never lost any so back packs have my wote. Me - no laptops any more, a long story for some other time.
More stories - I'm running Mandrake 9.1, with Win4Lin for win 98SE on 350 Pentium II. Linux runs great even with KDE ( once started ) and Win98 under Linux is very useable. Borland Delphi is fast and Visual C 6 is useable. Amazing, MS Word 2000 is as fast ( and starts faster ) than in my office system 1GHz Pentium with Win2000, Excel runs great, Mathcad is decent, and so on. Of course - 512MB RAM helps even if it is old 133 but the main reason for speed, I think, is that all I/O uses Linux file system ( I use XFS ). Can't compete my main 2x2.4 GHz, 2 GB memory, WinXP developement system in work but at home I don't need that much speed and this 350 with Linux is fast enough for movies, burning CDs, watching TV and programming tasks, etc. Oh - and of course, no need for boot, Linux just keeps running and Win98 can run weeks without reboot under Win4Lin even I'm doing heavy compiles and network programs testing on it, only MS Office seems slowly eating resourses and will require to reboot 98 time to time. Two Win98 crashes in a year - much, much less than when running 98 native.
Almost all advices here are good - depending what kind of photography you want. B/W or color, moving targets or still, etc. For some targets the auto-focus is fast enough, for some the manual is much faster. Some lenses work for color but B/W is a real trouble. Personal experience, yes, Canon Rebel is very good especially for B/W but I prefer Nikon FM2 with fast lens. Now - Canon lenses are much better than Nikon but the problem, they are expensive. Also - FM2 focusing is almost perfect ( for me ). My current cameras Leica M7 with Noctilux ( a little more expensive ), Canon EOS-1v, Hasselbald 202FA, some Contax ( Aria is very nice decent price ) and of course old Rolleiflex and Mamya two lenses plus some Polaroid & Speedgraphics.. And still ( excluding Leica ) I have no favorit - tough or ??
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I tried Kylix 1 to 3, no way. If it would work like Delphi ( and I'm using D4 ) it would be a winner. Why Delphi, the speed of development - and not just on GUIs. Last month I did need a glue between new C# applications and our old C / C++ based systems - no GUI. After some tries to make the interfaces to interact, the memory management, multiple heaps, table locking ( memory databases - this is a fast switch ), etc. the only one to support old DLLs under C# without using any special tricks was Delphi - now the C# appications can use all the native features ( no unmanaged! ) because Delphi takes care of interfaces. Also - the Delphi comm. components are short and clean and can drop to low level when needed - try that on C# ( yet - the support is not yet there ). This is no small system - a wireless system with 5000+ users roaming GPRS / WAN / LAN with FIPs level security. Performance - excellent, no memory leaks ( maybe, only run one week yet.. ), persistent data ( very easy in Delphi ), and so on. All that said - this is a prototype and will be replaced with something else for several reasons, we can't find developers who know Delphi, comm., memory management, safe threading, etc. AND this will run on other platforms later on - so, with great pain this will be changed to C or ??. Can be done ( not even difficult now when we have a prototype ) but the estimated code space will 5-6 times of Delphi so it takes time to code and to test.
Correct. How old is the saying kill the person who brings the bad news ? That way you can always blame somebody else even if the blame is on you. I learned it a long time ago and see it almost every day in business. Life is not fair but then who said it should be ??
Wrongfully convicted or even sued - eat it. The law is clear, if it is govenment or state you can't sue, you may get some compensation ( not required but.. ) like in Illinois - years in death row, yeah, here is $100K for that and have a nice day. Of course nobody will hire you, you can't get a business license, check you credit records ( covicts don't have credit records ), etc. because there is the truth that you were once convicted even innocent ( and no way to take back the records / published articles, all the flags in all the databases, etc ) - weird. But that's life and laws - people have voted so live with that. Or change it - vote for something else / some other politicans ( maybe you are now allowed - you just lost a couple of years voting ). And good luck.
My $0.02 - as long as their decisions have nothing to do with computers or IT - why should they know, what is there to be ashame ? Actually - I'm afraid when one of the business bosses starts talkin of computers, you can hear that they are aping some sales or consultants. It's another thing if your IT / development managers don't know anything - too common today IMHO. But a little consulting will not help them - or even that they did take computer 101 or maybe even wrote a small program 20 years ago. They need therapy, not just a little help.
As long as people want and support this kind of business - what's wrong in that ? Country, pride and life style is totally separated of business, please don't mix them. It is very narrow minded. Instead compete and vote - if your CEO or whatever makes 1000+ times what you do and makes these decisions moving work(force) around, think if she/he is worth of that ( to whom? ) - really ? Amazing - sometimes that's is the case but it's not the rule and they couldn't do that for long without you, Mr. Good Corporate Citizen ! Skilled ( educated,experienced, not trained! ) people will always have it better all over the world and the corporations will find them in free world where ever they are living. Don't want a free world - sorry, you loose!
ref : "Vanu Software Radio is first of its kind to perform all functions of a GSM (a digital cellular standard) base station using only software and a non-specialized computer server." See:
http://www.google.com/search?q=software+radio
The savings come when replacing a lot of the analog radio parts with digital. Digital radio is much cheaper than analog to digital / digital to analog conversions with old ways, etc. One of our HAM friends can explain this much better.
After 30+ years you just must love this or be dead. OOP - so 60's, XML, so SGML, threading - can you say tasking ( multiprocessors, sharing, blah, blah.. ) show something new. The new things are on wireless and not much event there.
An outsider living in US and ( happily ) paying the low taxes here - but don't complain the taxes, it's up to the voters what taxes they want or don't. I have seen the same thing all over the world - you pay what you vote and you voted for taxes in telecomm. services.
"Being a bit more serious, the situation you describe is fine for low level, commodity labor. Try hiring your friends to be your CFO or Director of R&D and see how long your company survives." Actually, it's another way around. All C's are hired by who you know and for a reason - on that level you have to know who you are dealing - not that you always do but that's another story. have a nice day.
Very good advice ! I have three kids who have gone through employment, colleges, unemployment, trying on their own, etc.. COBRA has helped every time. Sometimes I think we underestimate what is available. It just is not well known. Have a nice day.
On data access latency is always a problem. Remember that the data ends to memory and the longer it is held the more latency there is for whole system even using DMA or whatever. Why do you think that mainframes with actually slower channels can deliver the amount of data they do - latencies are kep low.
Nightmare! Happens often too. Besides, answering to other posts, take a look on SCSI error correction, TCP has nothing compared to that, it only adds overhead. And yes, you can implement much more and clever error correction to UDP, that way you control ( mostly ) the optimal message size, out of order, etc. Useful especially in wireless, much less and shorter resends for lost packets. have a nice day.
I write today with Java, Delphi, C++, C#, etc, assumed to be OO, not on level Smalltalk or Python, etc, but anyway. (IMHO) I love Delphi ! Now, when it comes to performance I have just two choises, assembler or Fortran and I take Fortran any day. Why Fortran, first, it is one of the simplest languages and all the compilers know how to optimize, it translates almost straight to machine language in any hw architecture. It also has working libraries for most known tasks today ( a long time! ). have a nice day.
Everybody thinks you are a pirate. The DRM gets tireing - I'm a developer and with all the DRM, IIS filters, firewall rules made by some outsider to our company, e-mail rules, etc.. I'm pissed and wasting more ( our company ) time to fight the environment than developing or listening MY OWN ( ogg from CDs I have bought ) music. At least I got our ( IT!! ) network people to understand that IBM, Intel. MS ( no comments, please ), Oracle, SUN, etc. are NOT for personal fun - we have to have access to development sites. Allmost works now. have a nice day.
(IMHO} a very good law - how the black box would know ( how can you read from the box ) what the situation was? It just records, it doesn't know if it was a good thing to accelerate or to speed up, how the traffic was. Just 40 years driving fast cars all around the world and one accident ( arguably not my fault but you know the insurance companies ). Maybe if it would record like 6 months or so, then you can make a pattern ( not always right but better than last xxx minutes ). I hope they don't put those on F1 cars!
Programming is the phase when you write the functional ideas to code, i.e. engineering ( IMHO ). On design phase I have found it wery useful to have one or more people around but when the desing is done, please, stay away. Programming is art but should not be creative art ( most of time, there are exceptions ), you just make ideas to work and it requires both skill and consentration that is difficult is you have to stop and argue..
Thanks of remeinder - yes, I know. I write framing, compression and crypto routines and you really have to be very careful of that. I personally hate framing, handling 10K users roaming ( i.e. changing the source ) but getting the next frame / window. We had no such problems with HDLC/SDLC - IP is not nice in that sence. Session management is a pain when you have to authenticate / authorize every byte in stream. On other hand, I see a lot of programmers ( and managers ) who have not been educated or experience to even think the issues.
I have a small problem with this type ( any type ) of buffer overflow or what ever bugs. Why would anybody read more than they can ? There are only two types of receiving / reading in computers - either the driver buffer or the application buffer. Application level is easy, you tell how big is the memory you can use and the driver gives you that. The driver level is different - you either have to to take what the hardware delivers or to nack it. How difficult is that ? Sorry but after writing 30+ years code on drivers and applications I just don't get it.. Maybe someone could explain it how this can happen ??
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yeah - I thought that funny before but my wife carries XX*1K$ worth of camera equipment on back pack round the world. Never lost any so back packs have my wote. Me - no laptops any more, a long story for some other time.
More stories - I'm running Mandrake 9.1, with Win4Lin for win 98SE on 350 Pentium II. Linux runs great even with KDE ( once started ) and Win98 under Linux is very useable. Borland Delphi is fast and Visual C 6 is useable. Amazing, MS Word 2000 is as fast ( and starts faster ) than in my office system 1GHz Pentium with Win2000, Excel runs great, Mathcad is decent, and so on. Of course - 512MB RAM helps even if it is old 133 but the main reason for speed, I think, is that all I/O uses Linux file system ( I use XFS ). Can't compete my main 2x2.4 GHz, 2 GB memory, WinXP developement system in work but at home I don't need that much speed and this 350 with Linux is fast enough for movies, burning CDs, watching TV and programming tasks, etc. Oh - and of course, no need for boot, Linux just keeps running and Win98 can run weeks without reboot under Win4Lin even I'm doing heavy compiles and network programs testing on it, only MS Office seems slowly eating resourses and will require to reboot 98 time to time. Two Win98 crashes in a year - much, much less than when running 98 native.
Almost all advices here are good - depending what kind of photography you want. B/W or color, moving targets or still, etc. For some targets the auto-focus is fast enough, for some the manual is much faster. Some lenses work for color but B/W is a real trouble. Personal experience, yes, Canon Rebel is very good especially for B/W but I prefer Nikon FM2 with fast lens. Now - Canon lenses are much better than Nikon but the problem, they are expensive. Also - FM2 focusing is almost perfect ( for me ). My current cameras Leica M7 with Noctilux ( a little more expensive ), Canon EOS-1v, Hasselbald 202FA, some Contax ( Aria is very nice decent price ) and of course old Rolleiflex and Mamya two lenses plus some Polaroid & Speedgraphics.. And still ( excluding Leica ) I have no favorit - tough or ??
I tried Kylix 1 to 3, no way. If it would work like Delphi ( and I'm using D4 ) it would be a winner. Why Delphi, the speed of development - and not just on GUIs. Last month I did need a glue between new C# applications and our old C / C++ based systems - no GUI. After some tries to make the interfaces to interact, the memory management, multiple heaps, table locking ( memory databases - this is a fast switch ), etc. the only one to support old DLLs under C# without using any special tricks was Delphi - now the C# appications can use all the native features ( no unmanaged! ) because Delphi takes care of interfaces. Also - the Delphi comm. components are short and clean and can drop to low level when needed - try that on C# ( yet - the support is not yet there ). This is no small system - a wireless system with 5000+ users roaming GPRS / WAN / LAN with FIPs level security. Performance - excellent, no memory leaks ( maybe, only run one week yet.. ), persistent data ( very easy in Delphi ), and so on. All that said - this is a prototype and will be replaced with something else for several reasons, we can't find developers who know Delphi, comm., memory management, safe threading, etc. AND this will run on other platforms later on - so, with great pain this will be changed to C or ??. Can be done ( not even difficult now when we have a prototype ) but the estimated code space will 5-6 times of Delphi so it takes time to code and to test.
Correct. How old is the saying kill the person who brings the bad news ? That way you can always blame somebody else even if the blame is on you. I learned it a long time ago and see it almost every day in business. Life is not fair but then who said it should be ??
Wrongfully convicted or even sued - eat it. The law is clear, if it is govenment or state you can't sue, you may get some compensation ( not required but.. ) like in Illinois - years in death row, yeah, here is $100K for that and have a nice day. Of course nobody will hire you, you can't get a business license, check you credit records ( covicts don't have credit records ), etc. because there is the truth that you were once convicted even innocent ( and no way to take back the records / published articles, all the flags in all the databases, etc ) - weird. But that's life and laws - people have voted so live with that. Or change it - vote for something else / some other politicans ( maybe you are now allowed - you just lost a couple of years voting ). And good luck.
My $0.02 - as long as their decisions have nothing to do with computers or IT - why should they know, what is there to be ashame ? Actually - I'm afraid when one of the business bosses starts talkin of computers, you can hear that they are aping some sales or consultants. It's another thing if your IT / development managers don't know anything - too common today IMHO. But a little consulting will not help them - or even that they did take computer 101 or maybe even wrote a small program 20 years ago. They need therapy, not just a little help.
They would wait and after that to negotiate a better deal.
As long as people want and support this kind of business - what's wrong in that ? Country, pride and life style is totally separated of business, please don't mix them. It is very narrow minded. Instead compete and vote - if your CEO or whatever makes 1000+ times what you do and makes these decisions moving work(force) around, think if she/he is worth of that ( to whom? ) - really ? Amazing - sometimes that's is the case but it's not the rule and they couldn't do that for long without you, Mr. Good Corporate Citizen ! Skilled ( educated,experienced, not trained! ) people will always have it better all over the world and the corporations will find them in free world where ever they are living. Don't want a free world - sorry, you loose!
ref : "Vanu Software Radio is first of its kind to perform all functions of a GSM (a digital cellular standard) base station using only software and a non-specialized computer server." See :
http://www.google.com/search?q=software+radio
The savings come when replacing a lot of the analog radio parts with digital. Digital radio is much cheaper than analog to digital / digital to analog conversions with old ways, etc. One of our HAM friends can explain this much better.
After 30+ years you just must love this or be dead. OOP - so 60's, XML, so SGML, threading - can you say tasking ( multiprocessors, sharing, blah, blah.. ) show something new. The new things are on wireless and not much event there.
An outsider living in US and ( happily ) paying the low taxes here - but don't complain the taxes, it's up to the voters what taxes they want or don't. I have seen the same thing all over the world - you pay what you vote and you voted for taxes in telecomm. services.
Forgetting the origin of the product.. remember these ?
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http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/tomato_frui
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tomato - fruit or vegetable ? no problem, tax people know, ask them.
They may be just people who don't understand technology ( IMHO ), have a nice day
"Being a bit more serious, the situation you describe is fine for low level, commodity labor. Try hiring your friends to be your CFO or Director of R&D and see how long your company survives."
Actually, it's another way around. All C's are hired by who you know and for a reason - on that level you have to know who you are dealing - not that you always do but that's another story. have a nice day.
Very good advice ! I have three kids who have gone through employment, colleges, unemployment, trying on their own, etc.. COBRA has helped every time. Sometimes I think we underestimate what is available. It just is not well known. Have a nice day.
On data access latency is always a problem. Remember that the data ends to memory and the longer it is held the more latency there is for whole system even using DMA or whatever. Why do you think that mainframes with actually slower channels can deliver the amount of data they do - latencies are kep low.
Nightmare! Happens often too. Besides, answering to other posts, take a look on SCSI error correction, TCP has nothing compared to that, it only adds overhead. And yes, you can implement much more and clever error correction to UDP, that way you control ( mostly ) the optimal message size, out of order, etc. Useful especially in wireless, much less and shorter resends for lost packets. have a nice day.
I write today with Java, Delphi, C++, C#, etc, assumed to be OO, not on level Smalltalk or Python, etc, but anyway. (IMHO) I love Delphi ! Now, when it comes to performance I have just two choises, assembler or Fortran and I take Fortran any day. Why Fortran, first, it is one of the simplest languages and all the compilers know how to optimize, it translates almost straight to machine language in any hw architecture. It also has working libraries for most known tasks today ( a long time! ). have a nice day.
Everybody thinks you are a pirate. The DRM gets tireing - I'm a developer and with all the DRM, IIS filters, firewall rules made by some outsider to our company, e-mail rules, etc.. I'm pissed and wasting more ( our company ) time to fight the environment than developing or listening MY OWN ( ogg from CDs I have bought ) music. At least I got our ( IT!! ) network people to understand that IBM, Intel. MS ( no comments, please ), Oracle, SUN, etc. are NOT for personal fun - we have to have access to development sites. Allmost works now. have a nice day.
Correct ! Been there, done that.. ( different industry but it's alwasy same ). have a nice day.
(IMHO} a very good law - how the black box would know ( how can you read from the box ) what the situation was? It just records, it doesn't know if it was a good thing to accelerate or to speed up, how the traffic was. Just 40 years driving fast cars all around the world and one accident ( arguably not my fault but you know the insurance companies ). Maybe if it would record like 6 months or so, then you can make a pattern ( not always right but better than last xxx minutes ). I hope they don't put those on F1 cars!
Programming is the phase when you write the functional ideas to code, i.e. engineering ( IMHO ). On design phase I have found it wery useful to have one or more people around but when the desing is done, please, stay away. Programming is art but should not be creative art ( most of time, there are exceptions ), you just make ideas to work and it requires both skill and consentration that is difficult is you have to stop and argue..
Thanks of remeinder - yes, I know. I write framing, compression and crypto routines and you really have to be very careful of that. I personally hate framing, handling 10K users roaming ( i.e. changing the source ) but getting the next frame / window. We had no such problems with HDLC/SDLC - IP is not nice in that sence. Session management is a pain when you have to authenticate / authorize every byte in stream. On other hand, I see a lot of programmers ( and managers ) who have not been educated or experience to even think the issues.
I have a small problem with this type ( any type ) of buffer overflow or what ever bugs. Why would anybody read more than they can ? There are only two types of receiving / reading in computers - either the driver buffer or the application buffer. Application level is easy, you tell how big is the memory you can use and the driver gives you that. The driver level is different - you either have to to take what the hardware delivers or to nack it. How difficult is that ? Sorry but after writing 30+ years code on drivers and applications I just don't get it.. Maybe someone could explain it how this can happen ??