The best strategy for them to prevent piracy on internet is stay out of it. In some region they've already stopped distributing movies in VCD, so as to make law enforcement's job easier in identifying illegal copies, and on the other hand making the production of illegal copies more costy(in DVD). They could do the same for internet distribution.
They're still distributing contents on internet because they found it profitable! Deal with it, you choose to make profit out of internet, take care of your own problems.
Companies could save billions of dollars in utilizing fully secured digital transmission at lower cost. The benefits of Internet2 to the economy outweight the lost of such small self-interest profit group. MPAA, go away, would ya.
Search for Linux in http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com(within first 20 hits):
Opinion: Why Linux isn't ready for the Desktop
Vulns: Linux Kernel Unspecified Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Vulns: Linux Kernel Floating Point Register Contents Leak Vulnerability
Vulns: Linux VServer Project ProcFS Weak Sharing Permissions Vulnerability
Vulns: Apache mod_userdir Module Information Disclosure Vulnerability
How Microsoft Can Embrace Linux
It's due to bulk license agreement between Microsoft and PC manufacturers. Since the licenses fee has already been paid, the marginal cost of pre-installed XP on each desktop produced is zero. Therefore, in economic sense, the incensive of installing other free alternatives, be it Linux, FREEDOS or *bsd is low. Microsoft doesn't even need to excerise their monopoly power to maintain the market share there.
However, there's no similar license arrangement in servers manufacturing. In most of the cases servers boxes and OS are purchased seperately. Thus the users can choose whichever OS yields the best cost/performance.
If Microsoft does not improve their server product line, we can foresee a continuous trend of them losing server market.
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Thanks bloody slashdotters! You knocked the test engine down!:)
Anyway, slashdot.org is not officially blocked or restricted in China - YET. If your China friends found it difficult to access/. from China it might due to some self-disciplinary measures by individual ISP.
First, I REALLY am not angry with Linus. HONEST. He's not angry with me either. I am not some kind of "sore loser" who feels he has been eclipsed by Linus. MINIX was only a kind of fun hobby for me.
For the rest of you who don't know 'the past' Prof. Tanenbaum with Linus, you may refer to the famous mailing list log "Linux is Obsolete".
Linus seems to be doing excellent work and I wish him much success in the future.
So I guess Prof. Tanenbaum can give higher grade than "F" to Linus now.:)
Both Prof. Tanenbaum and Linus are my favourite persons. I'm so happy to see this happy ending in real life.:~)
Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix. <SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich! <novell>/msg atnt haha. idiot. <novell> whoops. was that out loud? <atnt> rotfl <ibm> lol <SCO> why r u laffin at me? <novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now. <SCO> wtf? <SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now. <red_hat> haha, your linux sucks. <novell> lol <atnt> lol <ibm> lol <SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u! <ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE <SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux f? IBM. <SCO> can we do linux with you? <SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher... <ibm> *cough* <SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen. * SuSE is now SuSE[UL] * SCO is now caldera[UL] <turbolinux> can we play? <conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too. <ibm> sure! * turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL] * conectiva is now conectiva[UL] <ibm> redhat: you should join! <SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich. <red_hat> haha. no. <red_hat> lamers. <ibm> what about you debian? <debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years. <caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux! <turbolinux[UL]> i got owned. <caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame. * caldera[UL] is now known as SCO <SCO> i'm going back to unix. <SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me? <SCO> haha. no. lamer. <novell> lol <ibm> snap! <SGI>:~( <SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm. <ibm> wtf? <SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix. <red_hat> lol <SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen <ibm> lol <SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck. <ibm> go ahead. baby. <SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that? <ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever. <novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that. <SCO> wtf? we bought it from u. <novell> whoops. our bad. <SCO> i own u. haha <SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now! <ibm> whatever. lamer. * ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@* * SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)
We all want to have a Linux cellphone, but have you wondered why business would want it too? They don't seem to see the urge to ssh to their cell phone.:)
Royalty - cellphone manufacturers must pay royalty for each cellphone running either Palm, Symbian or CE. This is a huge revenue for smartphone OS vendors especially when the cellphone is popular. Some company like Sharp develops their smartphone OS inhouse but soon see the benefit of adopting other OS like Symbian and Linux.
Though I don't know how much royalty they charge, because it's a purely business secret(they may charge differently for different companies). However, you can take the reference of SUN's royalty - they charge $1 for each cellphone sold carrying their java runtime. You get the picture - it'd be no less than $1.:)
Now you may see the business benefit of adopting Linux - royalty free. Of course, some embedded Linux vendors would still charge royalty, but it'd be much less than Symbian, Palm and CE due to its nature.
Security for these places should be like fortx knox, and the second the card was removed there should be of been a notification to the current on-site physical security detail.
Ar....that remind me of my days in a research lab.
Security guards downstair would be 'notified' whenever someone is attempting to reboot those SGI workstations at night. The problem was that SGI hanged up quite often. When this happen, we should either move to another workstation, wait til tomorrow morning. Sometime we had no choice but to trouble those security guards when we ran out of unhanged SGI.:)
Initially those security guards were nice to us as we didn't do reboot very often - until someone decided to replace all those SGI workstations with NT Alpha. You imagine how irritating to have been called 2-4 times every night.
Soon after the SGI were replaced by NT Alpha, those reboot-alarms were removed for obvious reason.
Are you saying that if Sun changed the license on Solaris to GPL it would somehow magically become more buggy?
No. I don't think so, and that's not what I say or imply.
The bug I metioned, more specifically, associates with the failure in release the control of mounted fs when the node took control of infrastructure database of Oracle 9i RAC. The bug exists in Linux's version but not in Solaris version. It doesn't make Solaris superior than Linux, otherwise we wouldn't choose to deploy Linux Cluster. (This is also in response to the retarded Anonymous Coward who replied to your post)
This is hardly the Linux kernel maintainers' problems. They just can't address all unforeseen problems - they're simply human. It must the be those apps developers who build things on Linux fixing their own problem, by making patches to the problem they encountered and submit back to the community such that they could be free of trouble in the future release. That's how community would work with those enterprise players.
That's what I say. I know it's not your intention to put words into my mouth. Thanks for giving me chance to repond to your post with an open question.:)
Please don't flame me for bad-mouthing Linux, I'm a diehard Linux admin myself but I still think Linux has much to catch up in enterprise computing.
We've a Linux cluster which has a critical bug in mounting the share disk which has filesystem. Sometime when one node down the mount point is not released to another node which is supposed to take up the process, thus result in critical failure.
This is all kernel problem(or limitation), and we don't have problem with non-fs type disk(raw disk). Therefore we must use raw disk where possible in cluster, but we don't have choice when some apps require a filesystem(e.g. like infracture database in Oracle's forsaken Real Application Cluster (RAC). Good name huh)
The engineer who diagnosis this problem told me they've no such problem with similar setup with solaris so they THOUGHT it's okay in Linux. Ahem, there goes millions dollars for paying their great product(*cough* Oracle RAC *cough*).
I expect more of such problems could be solved when those companies specialized in enterprise bringing back good stuffs to Linux, and GPL.
Here is my little opinions on the subject. Not surprising I share the same view with the author.(My apology for the length and inaccurate technical details)
Lens
I agree with the author that the lens pays an important part of the overall quality, rather than no. of pixels. Generally speaking, lens with large aperture(F2.8>F4>F5.6>F8, etc.) can create better images. However, to compensate for the distortion near the edge, the larger the aperture, the bigger the lens size. You'd find digital camera with bigger lens(usually implies bigger aperture) cost more, regardless of no. of pixels.
While it's true that camera with exchangeable lens is very desirable for photographers especially when you already has a good lens. However, I do not think the high price of those lens-exhangeable digital camera, especially Nikon D70, is justified(I'm a diehard Nikon film amatuer photographer myself). If you don't like those digital camera exchangeble lens, you may look at those already has good lens equipped, like Lumix DMC-LC1, which equipped with a F2.0 Vario-Summicron Lens, a legendary brand name for most film photograpers. (Mind you, some perfectists critize that the lensare not made in their original factory. Oh well..:)
Color
The article touchs this topic very lightly, in fact most digital camera manufactuers avoid this. You can imagine different wave in light spectrum refract in different angle in each piece of lens. The problem is particular complicated when the lens group has more than one lens. That's why lens with more lens group is more expensive. This problem is called the chromatic abberation.
Aspherical lens(glasses with uneven density) and coating could help solving this problem. You can see the color reflect from the surface of many professional lens are not white - usually redish or slight greenish. The less white light reflects from the lens' surface, the better the coating. (This is in fact one tip you can use in choosing a good digital camera)
Light
As implied in the word 'photographing', it's all about light(photo). The better the lighting condition, the better the images created - this is true for digital and film photographing. You can't control the light, but you can control how light enter the camera. Most digital camera owners would find that regardless of no. of pixels, the images quality drops drastically in low light condition.
Guess what I'd say - yes, bigger(and high quality) lens invite more light thus create better images. What's so difficult to understand. XD
Conclusion
The quality of the lens outweights the no. of pixels. Well, in fact this is a most unwelcome answer, and people stop asking me for opinion on choosing digital camera, and go buy some fancy looking garblish. Luckily we've slashdot where I can find people still listening to me.....hello? HELLO???......
I don't know how many times I've to explain that again and again to my co-workers. I just back from explaining to a manager of such question, only found the same thing in/.:)
For GPL derivative work:
YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO DISTRIBUTE THE SOURCE WHEN YOU AREN'T GOING TO DISTRIBUTE THE BINARY.
For tailor-made projects which the result work are used inhouse you don't need to worry too much about leakage of secret. Nobody force you to release the source of the derivatives.
In this connection, GPL is especially desirable for Government projects, as the binaries of such GPL derivatives can be distributed without source code, when distributed among governmental departments. (see FAQ)
Finally if you HAVE to distribute the result products and don't want to share the sources with your customers. Just TALK to the original author of the GPL sources your project derived from for a seperate license desirable for your distribution. Pay them decently, we need to feed our family and pay mortgage.:)
Without Microsoft, OS/2 would be a joint venture between Apple and IBM. IBM would insist that it should have 3270 terminal session program in it, and Apple'd turn out making an OS/2 which could be able to open one 3270 terminal only, while incorporating multiple 3270 terminal sessions capability in their latest Mac OS release. To fight against it, IBM would release 'OS/2 for Mac' but later got sued by Apple for licenses infringement, which forced IBM making its own version of OS/2 which enable OS/2 having multiple 3270 terminal session, but then the market in general doesn't care.
Years ago my friend who made a freeware called 'GameHack'(sort of, I forgot) was approached by a company for acquiring its source code with good offers. Then the company offers to commercialize his product and pay him royalty after he rejected the first offer. They didn't make the deal in the end.
I think that's how the things go: you make good freeware and someone will support you to commercialize it if you don't do it yourself. We've seen a couple of such cases in OSS community. Developers are simply human who need to feed their kids and pay their mortage.:)
P.S. Oh btw, the reason my friend declined their offers is that he lost the source code in a harddrive failure and he's too embarrass to admit it.:)
Isn't that lip-reading technology we had on that Jupiter mission three years ago good enough?
Blah, don't get me started on those low-tech workaround by Russians.
After the success of anti-gravity pen, NASA proudly announces they beat Russian again with state-of-the-art subauditory, subvocal communication system, which merely costs ten billions and ten years of effort.
Very true. Look at how he intoduced himself and we can see what kind of dude he is.
Most of my time is currently spent on new technologies on several different platforms.
Read: I don't know shit. When someone is foolish enough to consult me I'll give them some buzzwords and get away with it.
Many of my companies and several of our offices have been merged into other companies, moved or sold as part of a technology deal, some even sold during the deepest parts of the downturn.
Read: Companies I worked for usually falling into bankrupcy, disbanding into complete disarray or being bought out as junk stock. I'm proud to tell everybody I'm actively participating in their failures.
I helped build the channels for most of the products that corporate America is currently using and some they will be using soon.
Read: I offers in 'digital channel' teen sex, herbal viagra and penis enlargement, etc. when I'm not hired.
In several cases, I am finally finding or developing ways to solve problems I have been working on for the last 20 years.
I finally figure out how to wipe my ass clean without shitting my pants.
The only way I can hide is to work so hard that it becomes close to impossible to track all the companies I have owned, bought, sold, rolled up, or sat on the board of.
Read: Trust me. I'm somebody of importance, only I just can't tell you why.
If you include the ones where I helped entrepreneurs and companies through tough times, or sat on non-profit boards, the list would be even tougher to follow.
Read: Don't you get it? Let me repeat, I've done a lot of great things but I just can't tell you a bit of it.
(Somehow I should have written my resume like that)
This kind of technology seems like a very healthy step toward making computers resistant to electromagnetic waves
Your joke reminded me of an instance when I saw a co-worker sitting on a P-IV box while working on it. I took the chance to play some prank on him.
"It could fire your 'eggs'"
"What?!"
"You know what clock speed this thingy is running?"
"2.4GHz, why?"
"What's the wave frequency of a microwave oven?"
(jumping up)"....OH SHIT"
(It's just a joke. I don't think the CPU has enough strength to fry your 'eggs'. Even so, the wave can't penatrate the metallic case):)
None of these are intuitive, even the GUI's aren't very helpful to any casual or very occasional user, who just wants to create a simple database and forget it until something significant needs to be added, deleted or amended. I obviously don't posses the skills or time to undertake writing such an animal. Does anyone else suffer this frustration?
Regardless of your background you obviously aren't a DBA.:)
A real DBA uses CLI. It's a well known fact that there is no consistant GUI among different vendors, and in many cases in different version of the same product. We don't look for point and click to perform a task, we'll do it by a list of scripts that we prepared for various tasks and customize them - from scratch(creating database, tables, triggers) to maintainance(expand database, add users, check deadlock, etc.)
I don't know how you could forget the usage of SQL so easy, SQL is made to ease the access of RDBMS, and if it complies to standard, same SQL statement can be used in different RDBMS.
I've no recommendation of GUI frontend for you but I recommend you to look at the SQL reference of the RDBMS of your choice. You'd find GUI hinder you when you get used to SQL statements.
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The best strategy for them to prevent piracy on internet is stay out of it. In some region they've already stopped distributing movies in VCD, so as to make law enforcement's job easier in identifying illegal copies, and on the other hand making the production of illegal copies more costy(in DVD). They could do the same for internet distribution.
They're still distributing contents on internet because they found it profitable! Deal with it, you choose to make profit out of internet, take care of your own problems.
Companies could save billions of dollars in utilizing fully secured digital transmission at lower cost. The benefits of Internet2 to the economy outweight the lost of such small self-interest profit group. MPAA, go away, would ya.
Search for Linux in http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com(within first 20 hits):
:)
Opinion: Why Linux isn't ready for the Desktop
Vulns: Linux Kernel Unspecified Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Vulns: Linux Kernel Floating Point Register Contents Leak Vulnerability
Vulns: Linux VServer Project ProcFS Weak Sharing Permissions Vulnerability
Vulns: Apache mod_userdir Module Information Disclosure Vulnerability
How Microsoft Can Embrace Linux
I love biased news source. So here I'm.
It's due to bulk license agreement between Microsoft and PC manufacturers. Since the licenses fee has already been paid, the marginal cost of pre-installed XP on each desktop produced is zero. Therefore, in economic sense, the incensive of installing other free alternatives, be it Linux, FREEDOS or *bsd is low. Microsoft doesn't even need to excerise their monopoly power to maintain the market share there.
However, there's no similar license arrangement in servers manufacturing. In most of the cases servers boxes and OS are purchased seperately. Thus the users can choose whichever OS yields the best cost/performance.
If Microsoft does not improve their server product line, we can foresee a continuous trend of them losing server market.
Thanks bloody slashdotters! You knocked the test engine down! :)
/. from China it might due to some self-disciplinary measures by individual ISP.
Anyway, slashdot.org is not officially blocked or restricted in China - YET. If your China friends found it difficult to access
See it yourself.
Screenshot of Skeleton+ for Atari 2600. :)
First, I REALLY am not angry with Linus. HONEST. He's not angry with me either. I am not some kind of "sore loser" who feels he has been eclipsed by Linus. MINIX was only a kind of fun hobby for me.
:)
:~)
For the rest of you who don't know 'the past' Prof. Tanenbaum with Linus, you may refer to the famous mailing list log "Linux is Obsolete".
Linus seems to be doing excellent work and I wish him much success in the future.
So I guess Prof. Tanenbaum can give higher grade than "F" to Linus now.
Both Prof. Tanenbaum and Linus are my favourite persons. I'm so happy to see this happy ending in real life.
Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix. /msg atnt haha. idiot. :~(
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell>
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux f? IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI>
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)
We all want to have a Linux cellphone, but have you wondered why business would want it too? They don't seem to see the urge to ssh to their cell phone. :)
:)
Royalty - cellphone manufacturers must pay royalty for each cellphone running either Palm, Symbian or CE. This is a huge revenue for smartphone OS vendors especially when the cellphone is popular. Some company like Sharp develops their smartphone OS inhouse but soon see the benefit of adopting other OS like Symbian and Linux.
Though I don't know how much royalty they charge, because it's a purely business secret(they may charge differently for different companies). However, you can take the reference of SUN's royalty - they charge $1 for each cellphone sold carrying their java runtime. You get the picture - it'd be no less than $1.
Now you may see the business benefit of adopting Linux - royalty free. Of course, some embedded Linux vendors would still charge royalty, but it'd be much less than Symbian, Palm and CE due to its nature.
Security for these places should be like fortx knox, and the second the card was removed there should be of been a notification to the current on-site physical security detail.
:)
Ar....that remind me of my days in a research lab.
Security guards downstair would be 'notified' whenever someone is attempting to reboot those SGI workstations at night. The problem was that SGI hanged up quite often. When this happen, we should either move to another workstation, wait til tomorrow morning. Sometime we had no choice but to trouble those security guards when we ran out of unhanged SGI.
Initially those security guards were nice to us as we didn't do reboot very often - until someone decided to replace all those SGI workstations with NT Alpha. You imagine how irritating to have been called 2-4 times every night.
Soon after the SGI were replaced by NT Alpha, those reboot-alarms were removed for obvious reason.
this isn't news
But that doesn't stop slashdot from posting it.
News for nerds isn't news; stuff that matters doesn't matter.
Are you saying that if Sun changed the license on Solaris to GPL it would somehow magically become more buggy?
:)
No. I don't think so, and that's not what I say or imply.
The bug I metioned, more specifically, associates with the failure in release the control of mounted fs when the node took control of infrastructure database of Oracle 9i RAC. The bug exists in Linux's version but not in Solaris version. It doesn't make Solaris superior than Linux, otherwise we wouldn't choose to deploy Linux Cluster. (This is also in response to the retarded Anonymous Coward who replied to your post)
This is hardly the Linux kernel maintainers' problems. They just can't address all unforeseen problems - they're simply human. It must the be those apps developers who build things on Linux fixing their own problem, by making patches to the problem they encountered and submit back to the community such that they could be free of trouble in the future release. That's how community would work with those enterprise players.
That's what I say. I know it's not your intention to put words into my mouth. Thanks for giving me chance to repond to your post with an open question.
I do think this move is benefitial to all.
Please don't flame me for bad-mouthing Linux, I'm a diehard Linux admin myself but I still think Linux has much to catch up in enterprise computing.
We've a Linux cluster which has a critical bug in mounting the share disk which has filesystem. Sometime when one node down the mount point is not released to another node which is supposed to take up the process, thus result in critical failure.
This is all kernel problem(or limitation), and we don't have problem with non-fs type disk(raw disk). Therefore we must use raw disk where possible in cluster, but we don't have choice when some apps require a filesystem(e.g. like infracture database in Oracle's forsaken Real Application Cluster (RAC). Good name huh)
The engineer who diagnosis this problem told me they've no such problem with similar setup with solaris so they THOUGHT it's okay in Linux. Ahem, there goes millions dollars for paying their great product(*cough* Oracle RAC *cough*).
I expect more of such problems could be solved when those companies specialized in enterprise bringing back good stuffs to Linux, and GPL.
Here is my little opinions on the subject. Not surprising I share the same view with the author.(My apology for the length and inaccurate technical details)
:)
Lens
I agree with the author that the lens pays an important part of the overall quality, rather than no. of pixels. Generally speaking, lens with large aperture(F2.8>F4>F5.6>F8, etc.) can create better images. However, to compensate for the distortion near the edge, the larger the aperture, the bigger the lens size. You'd find digital camera with bigger lens(usually implies bigger aperture) cost more, regardless of no. of pixels.
While it's true that camera with exchangeable lens is very desirable for photographers especially when you already has a good lens. However, I do not think the high price of those lens-exhangeable digital camera, especially Nikon D70, is justified(I'm a diehard Nikon film amatuer photographer myself). If you don't like those digital camera exchangeble lens, you may look at those already has good lens equipped, like Lumix DMC-LC1, which equipped with a F2.0 Vario-Summicron Lens, a legendary brand name for most film photograpers. (Mind you, some perfectists critize that the lensare not made in their original factory. Oh well..
Color
The article touchs this topic very lightly, in fact most digital camera manufactuers avoid this. You can imagine different wave in light spectrum refract in different angle in each piece of lens. The problem is particular complicated when the lens group has more than one lens. That's why lens with more lens group is more expensive. This problem is called the chromatic abberation.
Aspherical lens(glasses with uneven density) and coating could help solving this problem. You can see the color reflect from the surface of many professional lens are not white - usually redish or slight greenish. The less white light reflects from the lens' surface, the better the coating. (This is in fact one tip you can use in choosing a good digital camera)
Light
As implied in the word 'photographing', it's all about light(photo). The better the lighting condition, the better the images created - this is true for digital and film photographing. You can't control the light, but you can control how light enter the camera. Most digital camera owners would find that regardless of no. of pixels, the images quality drops drastically in low light condition.
Guess what I'd say - yes, bigger(and high quality) lens invite more light thus create better images. What's so difficult to understand. XD
Conclusion
The quality of the lens outweights the no. of pixels. Well, in fact this is a most unwelcome answer, and people stop asking me for opinion on choosing digital camera, and go buy some fancy looking garblish. Luckily we've slashdot where I can find people still listening to me.....hello? HELLO???......
Mod this AC up, the link http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/Download/EBR-10 00EP.html is real link to source code.
I don't know how many times I've to explain that again and again to my co-workers. I just back from explaining to a manager of such question, only found the same thing in /. :)
:)
For GPL derivative work:
YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO DISTRIBUTE THE SOURCE WHEN YOU AREN'T GOING TO DISTRIBUTE THE BINARY.
For tailor-made projects which the result work are used inhouse you don't need to worry too much about leakage of secret. Nobody force you to release the source of the derivatives.
In this connection, GPL is especially desirable for Government projects, as the binaries of such GPL derivatives can be distributed without source code, when distributed among governmental departments. (see FAQ)
Finally if you HAVE to distribute the result products and don't want to share the sources with your customers. Just TALK to the original author of the GPL sources your project derived from for a seperate license desirable for your distribution. Pay them decently, we need to feed our family and pay mortgage.
OS/2 was a joint venture between MS and IBM.
Without Microsoft, OS/2 would be a joint venture between Apple and IBM. IBM would insist that it should have 3270 terminal session program in it, and Apple'd turn out making an OS/2 which could be able to open one 3270 terminal only, while incorporating multiple 3270 terminal sessions capability in their latest Mac OS release. To fight against it, IBM would release 'OS/2 for Mac' but later got sued by Apple for licenses infringement, which forced IBM making its own version of OS/2 which enable OS/2 having multiple 3270 terminal session, but then the market in general doesn't care.
in IE, for those visiting relatives who dare use my computer.
It was my relatives who told me the goatse guy is wearing a wedding ring. Interesting, but I don't bother to verify.
I use Opera anyway.
Years ago my friend who made a freeware called 'GameHack'(sort of, I forgot) was approached by a company for acquiring its source code with good offers. Then the company offers to commercialize his product and pay him royalty after he rejected the first offer. They didn't make the deal in the end.
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I think that's how the things go: you make good freeware and someone will support you to commercialize it if you don't do it yourself. We've seen a couple of such cases in OSS community. Developers are simply human who need to feed their kids and pay their mortage.
P.S. Oh btw, the reason my friend declined their offers is that he lost the source code in a harddrive failure and he's too embarrass to admit it.
Isn't that lip-reading technology we had on that Jupiter mission three years ago good enough?
Blah, don't get me started on those low-tech workaround by Russians.
After the success of anti-gravity pen, NASA proudly announces they beat Russian again with state-of-the-art subauditory, subvocal communication system, which merely costs ten billions and ten years of effort.
Very true. Look at how he intoduced himself and we can see what kind of dude he is.
Most of my time is currently spent on new technologies on several different platforms.
Read: I don't know shit. When someone is foolish enough to consult me I'll give them some buzzwords and get away with it.
Many of my companies and several of our offices have been merged into other companies, moved or sold as part of a technology deal, some even sold during the deepest parts of the downturn.
Read: Companies I worked for usually falling into bankrupcy, disbanding into complete disarray or being bought out as junk stock. I'm proud to tell everybody I'm actively participating in their failures.
I helped build the channels for most of the products that corporate America is currently using and some they will be using soon.
Read: I offers in 'digital channel' teen sex, herbal viagra and penis enlargement, etc. when I'm not hired.
In several cases, I am finally finding or developing ways to solve problems I have been working on for the last 20 years.
I finally figure out how to wipe my ass clean without shitting my pants.
The only way I can hide is to work so hard that it becomes close to impossible to track all the companies I have owned, bought, sold, rolled up, or sat on the board of.
Read: Trust me. I'm somebody of importance, only I just can't tell you why.
If you include the ones where I helped entrepreneurs and companies through tough times, or sat on non-profit boards, the list would be even tougher to follow.
Read: Don't you get it? Let me repeat, I've done a lot of great things but I just can't tell you a bit of it.
(Somehow I should have written my resume like that)
This kind of technology seems like a very healthy step toward making computers resistant to electromagnetic waves
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Your joke reminded me of an instance when I saw a co-worker sitting on a P-IV box while working on it. I took the chance to play some prank on him.
"It could fire your 'eggs'"
"What?!"
"You know what clock speed this thingy is running?"
"2.4GHz, why?"
"What's the wave frequency of a microwave oven?"
(jumping up)"....OH SHIT"
(It's just a joke. I don't think the CPU has enough strength to fry your 'eggs'. Even so, the wave can't penatrate the metallic case)
Yes, I did RTFA, and it said nothing about what would be different between the "light" version and the normal version.
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Becase they're not going to take out any more functionalities, they'd just block them.
Do you realize that XP Home is just a couple of DLL away from XP pro? A complete guide to convert XP pro from XP home is out there.
It's more economical to block them rather than taking them away.
None of these are intuitive, even the GUI's aren't very helpful to any casual or very occasional user, who just wants to create a simple database and forget it until something significant needs to be added, deleted or amended. I obviously don't posses the skills or time to undertake writing such an animal. Does anyone else suffer this frustration?
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Regardless of your background you obviously aren't a DBA.
A real DBA uses CLI. It's a well known fact that there is no consistant GUI among different vendors, and in many cases in different version of the same product. We don't look for point and click to perform a task, we'll do it by a list of scripts that we prepared for various tasks and customize them - from scratch(creating database, tables, triggers) to maintainance(expand database, add users, check deadlock, etc.)
I don't know how you could forget the usage of SQL so easy, SQL is made to ease the access of RDBMS, and if it complies to standard, same SQL statement can be used in different RDBMS.
I've no recommendation of GUI frontend for you but I recommend you to look at the SQL reference of the RDBMS of your choice. You'd find GUI hinder you when you get used to SQL statements.
"If you're a humorous guy and you want to uber frustrate law enforcement, use a Linux."