Actually, the red crabs thrive despite the massive number of them that get whacked every year by vehicular traffic. This suggests that there is some natural predator that normally kept them in check which is no longer present or that the number of them killed by traffic isn't an impact with respect to their birth rate.
The viaducts are a great idea when you're dealing with a population of wildlife that's being adversely affected by humanity. In this case at least from the little bit of information I've seen humanity is just acting as a check. For the individual red crab it may suck getting run over by a car, but statistically it might be the better thing unless other predators are introduced.
It's sort of like the anti-hunting people who complain about shooting bambi. I don't hunt, but I respect the right to hunt (according to laws etc). Since we've killed off most of their natural predators (wolves) deer populations run rampant in some places. This means that they often face starvation as food supplies go scarce. Reducing the population of deer (or more accurately, controlling) through hunting is more humane than just letting herds grow to the point where their food supply can't support them. Again, for the deer that is turned into steaks its a raw deal, but for the herd as a whole its a good thing.
DirectTV has been fairly cool in my opinion about how they've handled the loss of their services, at least so far. Tivo was cool enough about hackers that I bought a Tivo even though I have almost no use for it.
DirectTV didn't get all legalistic over people who were hacking their receivers to access channels they didn't pay for, they out-hacked them. They took advantage of their more indepth knowledge v.s. the reverse engineers and disabled hacked units en masse.
In my mind everybody has the right to do anything to hardware they own or lease, even if it does circumvent acceptable use policies or deprive companies of their fees. I also think companies have the right to fight back within the confines of the previous sentence. The services they provide are beamed to you whether you want them or not, they're on your property, so it should not be legal to make viewing the signals, no matter how, illegal. What is valid, and was really cool about DirectTV, is making your work on accessing their services useless, or even detrimental (by frying hacked receivers for instance). Both the loss of services through third parties intercepting their signals and the engineering costs associated with preventing it are business expenses. It's their responsibility as a corporate entity to balance out the two costs in a manner most favourable to their stockholders and employees. It's your responsibility as the head of a household to balance the costs of the service v.s. the risks and costs involved of using hacked units.
I've never seen a SourceForge package that didn't live up to my expectations. Of course I'm a bright boy, I can read and comprehend what I read. For instance, grabbing an apllication at random:
Versal Game Engine.
So... This will be an opensource game engine. A lot of things will be interpreted in it, from 3dengine (opengl) to pathfinding, and so on. And it will be scriptable, so everyone will be able to make games, if he/she wants. It will be cool, I hope!
Development Status: 1 - Planning
Environment: Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Intended Audience: Developers, End Users/Desktop
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Natural Language: English
Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000, Linux
Programming Language: C++
Topic: Games/Entertainment, 3D Rendering, Software Development
Registered: 2001-01-11 12:46
Activity Percentile: 0%
View project activity statistics
So we've got a package registered as in the planning stage which has been active since January 1st 2001. The activity percentile is 0%, which means that after rounding every other package has been more active than this one. If I were to download it I'd only expect to get nothing or some insignificant fraction above that.
Microsoft will spin anything Open Source bad. If RMS was found with kiddy porn they'd happily label the whole community as a bunch of paedophiles.
Note to slashdot coders, your lameness filter is lame. I wasn't able to format this because your filter, no doubt coded in the advanced stages of ether withdrawl, complained. While you may think this prevents troll posts it doesn't, it only annoys users. A much better use of your times would be to collectively enroll in preschool and learn to spell.
Everybody knows that Duke Nukem is a pale immitation of Ash from the Evil Dead series. How about Duke actually admitting it for a change.
Duke says: Hail to the King baby, and by King, I do mean Ash.
RSI exists, but its probably often misdiagnosed. Medicine is part science and part art. Doctors know roughly how the various organs in the body work, they know roughly how medicines work, this is the science part. The artistic part comes in diagnosing people. Many ailments can't be directly tested. For instance, you go to the doctor with a headache. Tests can be run to see if you've got a detectable medical condition. You've still got a headache, so the doctor asks questions. How long do you work? Do you often feel stress? You say you put in long hours and your career and family worry you. The doctor diagnoses it as stress related.
The same thing can easily happen with RSI. You complain your arm is numb and your wrist is sore. The doctor asks you if you use a computer or type and you answer affirmatively. You're diagnosed as having RSI. RSI becomes a catch-all for people with sore joints who use computers.
I meant about 20 albums and I was being generous. Yes, most songs on Napster are 128 kbits, it doesn't mean that I find it satisfactory. Most songs on Napster can also be categorized as top 40, but I'm not about to change my musical tastes to suit the status quo. The Nakamichi CD/CD changer in my car can keep 8 CD's running. The standard CD/MP3 players aren't significantly better than that unless I degrade the signal quality to the point where I get annoyed.
The few I've looked at (20 albums is fine for work) sound like cheap "give away" portable radios, so a better bit rate wouldn't help them anyway. I've ripped most of my CD collection already, somewhere upward of 2000 CD's. I've got a 20 gig drive at work that I swap songs in and out of from my home collection and play through a set of decent headphones. I want to do something similar in my car. I'd like to buy a 20 or 30 gig IBM laptop drive and hook it up. No device currently lets me do this other than a few kits that suffer from a lack of directory structure.
Thats an inane comment. What kind of music do you listen to that you absolutely can't tolerate an eight track tape? Even if I could handle a lesser bitrate in my car, why should I? I've got a huge collection of MP3 that I've recorded from my CD collection. It's been ripped at a bit rate that preserves a good portion of the original sound quality. I don't want to have to create a second archive to justify somebody elses product.
Why is this flamebait? Somebody stated that nobody needs anything more than a glorified CD player and I stated why I want more and what I actually want.
Some of us drive quite a bit and need more music than can fit on a CD. 640 megabytes: thats about 20 songs at decent sounding bit rate. If I've got to flip CD's anyway I'd rather have a CD player, the sound quality is a whole lot better, I don't have to waste time organizing tracks and burning them onto a CD.
The main problem with all of the commercial devices is that they're cheap pieces of crap and don't do what I think they should be able to do. By and large they're the equivalent of CD players you find in deep discount stores.
What I really want, and so far nobody has delivered (at least in one piece of hardware) is this:
Decent electronics, don't salvage the analog backend from a discount electronics maker that filed Chapter 11. I haven't seen any that have passing marks here.
The ability to read CDR. Lots of devices can do this.
Headphone jack. Again, lots of devices have these.
RCA jacks. More rare, but I refuse to hook up a device through the casette deck (I don't even have one in my car anyway).
IDE connecter. Let me hook up a filesystem on an IBM microdrive. 20 or 30 gigs of music from a laptop filesystem would be sweet. I haven't seen a commercial device that does this yet.
Understand a real filesystem. 20 or 30 gigs of MP3 in a flat filesystem is insane. There needs to be some hierarchy to it. Document the Hell out of the filesystem. I want to be able to write it out even if I don't use hardware that you support.
USB or other serial interface. A CD full of MP3 is easy to navigate through with a handful of buttons. Better control is needed for mass quantities of MP3 though. Document the protocol for organizing and browsing the MP3 database as well as the control codes for play, next track, pause etc.
I don't care what operating system it runs. I'd argue that it shouldn't run an operating system and should use MP3 decoder IC's anyway. Sell it for 500 bucks and I'll be the first to buy it. I've got a long drive to Alaska and back this summer. I'd love to be able to take a large cross section of music with me. A large portion of the journey will be through areas without any interesting music (or more likely, Billy Bob's Gospel Hour)
I'm not usually one for boycotts, usually the people scream for them seem like pansies. I still don't exactly recommend a boycott. Our lack of a purchase would be lost in the noise level compared to the number of consumers who do make purchases.
Instead I recommend a buycott. Pick a date, say July 14th because its far enough to spread the word, and purchase a DVD. I'd recommend that everybody purchases the same DVD, perhaps "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", whether you like it or not, whether you have it or not etc. It doesn't matter because you WILL NOT BE KEEPING THE DVD. Purchasing from a brick and mortar store will be better than purchasing online too as you'll be able to converse with sales people and managers.
On July 21st return the DVD. Make sure you state your reasons for returning it, but be adults. "Hello, I'd like to return this DVD. I've tried it and it will not work on my hardware." if you get the opportunity explain that you use a software DVD player under Linux, or a region free DVD player.
What does this accomplish? The lack of a sale isn't noticed if overall the sales for a product is doing well. There aren't enough people that care about this to make a difference in sales. We're a few fractions of a percent. A returned sale will register though, its out of the ordinary. It should involve the DVD being sent back to the manufacturer (the seals are broken so putting it back on the shelf is not possible) accompanied by paperwork. The number of returns over a short period of time will actually appear on their radar screens.
Most cities have a number of places where you can purchase DVDs, so you could do this multiple times.
You may not get actual cash back depending on your retailer. Be aware of their rules in advance (but don't let on your intentions, just be aware of their policy on returns). If you have to take store credit and spend it on bubble gum or pop.
The interesting thing about this is that people that purchase DVDs but feel guilty about it can still take part. Remember, you're returning a DVD, not boycotting.
Napster didn't stand up to any regime, it tried to make a business model around peoples ability to circumvent copywrite laws. As soon as Napster realized that it couldn't have survived solely on advertising dollars it would've implemented a subscription fee. Shawn Fanning wasn't out to change the world, he was out to line his pockets. There is no legitimate reason for a middle man in peer to peer file sharing unless its to somehow make a profit.
Real peer to peer filesharing, such as gnutella, is really about making changes. There's no entity in the middle trying to make money off of each copyright violation.
I'm not against file sharing, but I think its bullshit that some corporation thinks they should be able to serve as a middle man and make money off of negating another companies property rights.
Somebody please mod up the parent post. He's right on the money. I want to start doing something similar, but not really, to geocaching. I want to hunt out old ghost towns, abandoned highways and abandoned railways. If do this I already know that posting the information to the internet would be the kiss of death. The sites would be destroyed, or barring that, defaced.
Don't believe me? Go to Moab Utah, home of Arches National park. Find some of the easy hikes to petroglyphs and try them out. They really are easy, some of them are even drive by. Too bad they're all defaced by retards, or in some cases actually chipped away to be put on the market. Spend a few hours chatting with a ranger though, loft out your interest in seeing some petroglyphs and see if he'll point you at some more remote or just plain not well known ones. If you're lucky and the ranger trusts you he'll send you to a few nicely preserved ones. I'm willing to document the Hell out of anything I find in the form of photographs and text, but I won't publish GPS coordinates. Convince me your intentions are good and you're honorable (won't harm the site, won't steal, won't piss off property owners) and I'll share the information on a case by case basis.
I haven't geocached, but from what I've read geocaching is suffering from the same problem. Easy access to the information is allowing the lowest common denominator to muck up the works. Caches disappear, easy ones get way too much traffic prompting local officials to take action etc.
Maybe Gimp will have the feature, maybe not. For most people it doesn't matter that much, but for professionals it does. I don't think it would be that hard to develop but there may be hurdles, a lot of the technology is proprietary and Pantone, Apple, Adobe, Xerox and other companies may not willingly give you a specification.
I don't think its in the pre-release version of Gimp, at least I didn't see it.
Even if you manage to get that all in you've still got to prove to the people who buy the software that you're reliable and accurate. 600 bucks for a piece of software isn't much considering the designer who uses it makes upwards of 100K and might be working on a multimillion dollar project.
Just chalking it up to an existing userbase and an industry standard is very short sighted. In reality GIMP has a lot of shortcomings for production use. Maybe GIMP will eventually pick them up, but in the mean time its not ready for prime time. Most people don't worry about colour other than what they see on their screen, or what they see on their printer. Compare two average persons monitors carefully and see what each displays as a pure cyan, magenta or yellow. Chances are you'll see a huge difference which is why there are devices to calibrate colour for professional use.
Great, now you've got your monitor calibrated so that cyan is approximately cyan and so on. You do your design work for your customer and produce something you feel present to them. Now you print it to your local printer. There is a transfer function between your computer and the monitor and between the computer and the printer. The result of this is that what prints out on the printer doesn't look all that much like what you see on the screen. This isn't acceptable since you can't present your vision to your client. PhotoShop can manage this transfer function and neutralize it but GIMP can't. If GIMP could do this you'd display the proof to your customer and hopefully he'd approve it and give you a large bag of cash so that you can go to the printing bureau.
You're faced with yet another different transfer function between your computer and the service bureau at this point, again GIMP has to be able to translate between the different colour maps, but unfortunately it can't. The result is that you get strange looking graphics coming back from the bureaus printers and your customer probably objects.
Not completely, the claim of U.S. imports being overpriced is B.S., but a Swedish import would be pricey. NAFTA - north american free trade agreement. There's no similar agreement between Canada and Sweden.
Stupid 2 minute wait between submissions. I forgot to add that this problem is preventing us from rolling out linux to our circuit designers and system electrical people. If Matrox would resolve the problem it'd mean a few hundred linux seats in a pretty high profile part of the company as well as a few hundred Matrox boards.
All I want is the ability to run 8 bit applications that require a pseudo-color display without resorting to booting in 8 bit mode. Some of my applications don't do 24 bit colour and won't run unless they can find an 8 bit or 8 bit pseudo-color display.
Matrox seems to have this, so I bought a G450 but it doesn't really work. It works for a little while then scrambles the screen with psychedelics.
Sorry about that, I hit submit instead of preview.
Government funds closed-source work too, Balmer doesn't seem to have a problem with that however. Yet in the case of closed source work only the copywrite holder has any access to it, unless they agree on a fee.
This is really an exact parallel with the Open Source movement. Nobody has access to it unless they agree to the fee. The fee in this case isn't monetary, its an agreement to abide by the licensing terms. All companies have access to open source software. The cost of making use of it may be deemed too high by some companies, i.e., they can't agree to the licensing terms.
Contrast this to Microsoft however, only companies with very deep pockets have access to the software. There is a financial step function which must be overcome in order to get the Windows source code. On TOP of that there are licensing restrictions as well.
Q: Do you view Linux and the open-source movement as a threat to Microsoft?
A: Yeah. It's good competition. It will force us to be innovative. It will force us to justify
the prices and value that we deliver. And that's only healthy. The only thing we have a
problem with is when the government funds open-source work. Government funding
should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to
commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source
software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government
wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain.
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it
touches. That's the way that the license works
True, civilizations were destroyed by barbarians, but there are other ways of doing it. Russia, while not exactly destroyed, was crippled through economic means. The chief idiot in the White House competed against the chief idiot in the Kremlin to see who could make more bombs. The Kremlin burned through more money than it had and weakened the USSR financially to the point of collapse. There were other factors but the above is a pretty popular gloss of the situation.
Don't think the U.S. can be financially crippled? I wouldn't bet on it, but there are other ways. The current retard in office wants a missle defense system. This is all but useless against the most likely form of attacks against the United States. If I wanted to destroy the country I wouldn't bother with a war. War is expensive especially if you have thoughts of fighting on foreign (i.e. U.S.A.) soil. Biological or chemical attacks launched from within the U.S. borders would be far more effective. Densely populated areas, such as Los Angeles or New York City would make excellent starting targets.
One of the big problems with nuclear disposal isn't just disposing of it, its making sure that future generations know that they really shouldn't be digging it up. The long term success rate of human civilizations aren't terribly high. There's no guarantee that the U.S. will be around multiple millenia from now. There's no guarantee that English will still be the predominant language in the U.S.
A structure that people would notice and preserve (or at least not destroy) like the Sphynx, Eifel tower or the Statue of Liberty might help a bit. You also need warnings that can be interpreted by future civilizations and need to assume that your native tongue is a lost language.
Air conditioner repairmen are "engineers". Yes there are many engineering
fields which do require extensive education. civil engineers and electrical engineers are not things you just pickup. I
never said otherwise. There are many engineers which require little education. Every hear of ITT? Most of their 2 year
programs will qualify a person as an engineer in some field.
No, they aren't engineers, they're repairmen. I've never had an airconditioner repairman refer to themselves as an engineer. If they did I'd correct them pretty quickly.
I realize its a bit different in the US, but in Canada being an engineer is like being a doctor or lawyers, they are professions and there are governing bodies that say whether you can call yourself one or not. Other than sanitation engineer I've still not heard the term misused in the U.S.
I've gone beyond a BASc. The MASc was within the "college of graduate studies" within the university and very closely affiliated with the electrical engineering department. When I'm done with my current work project I'll start seriously pursuing a PhD. It'll be within the college of Information and Technology within a university.
A friend of mine is going to medical school, not pre-med, its within a university and more or less operated as a college. So far all of your points have been wrong.
Yes I do work in the tech industry. I've never met a techie who was taught by someone other than himself. If you
can't pick a book or browse the web and teach your self something you should try an easier field. Sorry but
knowledge is something any one get without help
I think this explains a Hell of a lot about the poor quality of the products of the tech industry. Operating systems and e-commerce solutions hackable by infants; defective electronic merchandise, new in box (but its NEW).
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The viaducts are a great idea when you're dealing with a population of wildlife that's being adversely affected by humanity. In this case at least from the little bit of information I've seen humanity is just acting as a check. For the individual red crab it may suck getting run over by a car, but statistically it might be the better thing unless other predators are introduced.
It's sort of like the anti-hunting people who complain about shooting bambi. I don't hunt, but I respect the right to hunt (according to laws etc). Since we've killed off most of their natural predators (wolves) deer populations run rampant in some places. This means that they often face starvation as food supplies go scarce. Reducing the population of deer (or more accurately, controlling) through hunting is more humane than just letting herds grow to the point where their food supply can't support them. Again, for the deer that is turned into steaks its a raw deal, but for the herd as a whole its a good thing.
DirectTV didn't get all legalistic over people who were hacking their receivers to access channels they didn't pay for, they out-hacked them. They took advantage of their more indepth knowledge v.s. the reverse engineers and disabled hacked units en masse.
In my mind everybody has the right to do anything to hardware they own or lease, even if it does circumvent acceptable use policies or deprive companies of their fees. I also think companies have the right to fight back within the confines of the previous sentence. The services they provide are beamed to you whether you want them or not, they're on your property, so it should not be legal to make viewing the signals, no matter how, illegal. What is valid, and was really cool about DirectTV, is making your work on accessing their services useless, or even detrimental (by frying hacked receivers for instance). Both the loss of services through third parties intercepting their signals and the engineering costs associated with preventing it are business expenses. It's their responsibility as a corporate entity to balance out the two costs in a manner most favourable to their stockholders and employees. It's your responsibility as the head of a household to balance the costs of the service v.s. the risks and costs involved of using hacked units.
If you want a God worship me. At least I exist.
Versal Game Engine.
So... This will be an opensource game engine. A lot of things will be interpreted in it, from 3dengine (opengl) to pathfinding, and so on. And it will be scriptable, so everyone will be able to make games, if he/she wants. It will be cool, I hope!
Development Status: 1 - Planning
Environment: Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Intended Audience: Developers, End Users/Desktop
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Natural Language: English
Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000, Linux
Programming Language: C++
Topic: Games/Entertainment, 3D Rendering, Software Development
Registered: 2001-01-11 12:46
Activity Percentile: 0%
View project activity statistics
So we've got a package registered as in the planning stage which has been active since January 1st 2001. The activity percentile is 0%, which means that after rounding every other package has been more active than this one. If I were to download it I'd only expect to get nothing or some insignificant fraction above that.
Microsoft will spin anything Open Source bad. If RMS was found with kiddy porn they'd happily label the whole community as a bunch of paedophiles.
Note to slashdot coders, your lameness filter is lame. I wasn't able to format this because your filter, no doubt coded in the advanced stages of ether withdrawl, complained. While you may think this prevents troll posts it doesn't, it only annoys users. A much better use of your times would be to collectively enroll in preschool and learn to spell.
Everybody knows that Duke Nukem is a pale immitation of Ash from the Evil Dead series. How about Duke actually admitting it for a change. Duke says: Hail to the King baby, and by King, I do mean Ash.
It's the generic explanation for UFO sightings, at least on an old TV show "Project Bluebook".
The same thing can easily happen with RSI. You complain your arm is numb and your wrist is sore. The doctor asks you if you use a computer or type and you answer affirmatively. You're diagnosed as having RSI. RSI becomes a catch-all for people with sore joints who use computers.
The few I've looked at (20 albums is fine for work) sound like cheap "give away" portable radios, so a better bit rate wouldn't help them anyway. I've ripped most of my CD collection already, somewhere upward of 2000 CD's. I've got a 20 gig drive at work that I swap songs in and out of from my home collection and play through a set of decent headphones. I want to do something similar in my car. I'd like to buy a 20 or 30 gig IBM laptop drive and hook it up. No device currently lets me do this other than a few kits that suffer from a lack of directory structure.
Thats an inane comment. What kind of music do you listen to that you absolutely can't tolerate an eight track tape? Even if I could handle a lesser bitrate in my car, why should I? I've got a huge collection of MP3 that I've recorded from my CD collection. It's been ripped at a bit rate that preserves a good portion of the original sound quality. I don't want to have to create a second archive to justify somebody elses product.
Why is this flamebait? Somebody stated that nobody needs anything more than a glorified CD player and I stated why I want more and what I actually want.
The main problem with all of the commercial devices is that they're cheap pieces of crap and don't do what I think they should be able to do. By and large they're the equivalent of CD players you find in deep discount stores.
What I really want, and so far nobody has delivered (at least in one piece of hardware) is this:
- Decent electronics, don't salvage the analog backend from a discount electronics maker that filed Chapter 11. I haven't seen any that have passing marks here.
- The ability to read CDR. Lots of devices can do this.
- Headphone jack. Again, lots of devices have these.
- RCA jacks. More rare, but I refuse to hook up a device through the casette deck (I don't even have one in my car anyway).
- IDE connecter. Let me hook up a filesystem on an IBM microdrive. 20 or 30 gigs of music from a laptop filesystem would be sweet. I haven't seen a commercial device that does this yet.
- Understand a real filesystem. 20 or 30 gigs of MP3 in a flat filesystem is insane. There needs to be some hierarchy to it. Document the Hell out of the filesystem. I want to be able to write it out even if I don't use hardware that you support.
- USB or other serial interface. A CD full of MP3 is easy to navigate through with a handful of buttons. Better control is needed for mass quantities of MP3 though. Document the protocol for organizing and browsing the MP3 database as well as the control codes for play, next track, pause etc.
I don't care what operating system it runs. I'd argue that it shouldn't run an operating system and should use MP3 decoder IC's anyway. Sell it for 500 bucks and I'll be the first to buy it. I've got a long drive to Alaska and back this summer. I'd love to be able to take a large cross section of music with me. A large portion of the journey will be through areas without any interesting music (or more likely, Billy Bob's Gospel Hour)Instead I recommend a buycott. Pick a date, say July 14th because its far enough to spread the word, and purchase a DVD. I'd recommend that everybody purchases the same DVD, perhaps "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", whether you like it or not, whether you have it or not etc. It doesn't matter because you WILL NOT BE KEEPING THE DVD. Purchasing from a brick and mortar store will be better than purchasing online too as you'll be able to converse with sales people and managers.
On July 21st return the DVD. Make sure you state your reasons for returning it, but be adults. "Hello, I'd like to return this DVD. I've tried it and it will not work on my hardware." if you get the opportunity explain that you use a software DVD player under Linux, or a region free DVD player.
What does this accomplish? The lack of a sale isn't noticed if overall the sales for a product is doing well. There aren't enough people that care about this to make a difference in sales. We're a few fractions of a percent. A returned sale will register though, its out of the ordinary. It should involve the DVD being sent back to the manufacturer (the seals are broken so putting it back on the shelf is not possible) accompanied by paperwork. The number of returns over a short period of time will actually appear on their radar screens.
Most cities have a number of places where you can purchase DVDs, so you could do this multiple times.
You may not get actual cash back depending on your retailer. Be aware of their rules in advance (but don't let on your intentions, just be aware of their policy on returns). If you have to take store credit and spend it on bubble gum or pop.
The interesting thing about this is that people that purchase DVDs but feel guilty about it can still take part. Remember, you're returning a DVD, not boycotting.
Real peer to peer filesharing, such as gnutella, is really about making changes. There's no entity in the middle trying to make money off of each copyright violation.
I'm not against file sharing, but I think its bullshit that some corporation thinks they should be able to serve as a middle man and make money off of negating another companies property rights.
Don't believe me? Go to Moab Utah, home of Arches National park. Find some of the easy hikes to petroglyphs and try them out. They really are easy, some of them are even drive by. Too bad they're all defaced by retards, or in some cases actually chipped away to be put on the market. Spend a few hours chatting with a ranger though, loft out your interest in seeing some petroglyphs and see if he'll point you at some more remote or just plain not well known ones. If you're lucky and the ranger trusts you he'll send you to a few nicely preserved ones. I'm willing to document the Hell out of anything I find in the form of photographs and text, but I won't publish GPS coordinates. Convince me your intentions are good and you're honorable (won't harm the site, won't steal, won't piss off property owners) and I'll share the information on a case by case basis.
I haven't geocached, but from what I've read geocaching is suffering from the same problem. Easy access to the information is allowing the lowest common denominator to muck up the works. Caches disappear, easy ones get way too much traffic prompting local officials to take action etc.
I don't think its in the pre-release version of Gimp, at least I didn't see it.
Even if you manage to get that all in you've still got to prove to the people who buy the software that you're reliable and accurate. 600 bucks for a piece of software isn't much considering the designer who uses it makes upwards of 100K and might be working on a multimillion dollar project.
Great, now you've got your monitor calibrated so that cyan is approximately cyan and so on. You do your design work for your customer and produce something you feel present to them. Now you print it to your local printer. There is a transfer function between your computer and the monitor and between the computer and the printer. The result of this is that what prints out on the printer doesn't look all that much like what you see on the screen. This isn't acceptable since you can't present your vision to your client. PhotoShop can manage this transfer function and neutralize it but GIMP can't. If GIMP could do this you'd display the proof to your customer and hopefully he'd approve it and give you a large bag of cash so that you can go to the printing bureau.
You're faced with yet another different transfer function between your computer and the service bureau at this point, again GIMP has to be able to translate between the different colour maps, but unfortunately it can't. The result is that you get strange looking graphics coming back from the bureaus printers and your customer probably objects.
Not completely, the claim of U.S. imports being overpriced is B.S., but a Swedish import would be pricey. NAFTA - north american free trade agreement. There's no similar agreement between Canada and Sweden.
Stupid 2 minute wait between submissions. I forgot to add that this problem is preventing us from rolling out linux to our circuit designers and system electrical people. If Matrox would resolve the problem it'd mean a few hundred linux seats in a pretty high profile part of the company as well as a few hundred Matrox boards.
Matrox seems to have this, so I bought a G450 but it doesn't really work. It works for a little while then scrambles the screen with psychedelics.
Government funds closed-source work too, Balmer doesn't seem to have a problem with that however. Yet in the case of closed source work only the copywrite holder has any access to it, unless they agree on a fee.
This is really an exact parallel with the Open Source movement. Nobody has access to it unless they agree to the fee. The fee in this case isn't monetary, its an agreement to abide by the licensing terms. All companies have access to open source software. The cost of making use of it may be deemed too high by some companies, i.e., they can't agree to the licensing terms.
Contrast this to Microsoft however, only companies with very deep pockets have access to the software. There is a financial step function which must be overcome in order to get the Windows source code. On TOP of that there are licensing restrictions as well.
Don't think the U.S. can be financially crippled? I wouldn't bet on it, but there are other ways. The current retard in office wants a missle defense system. This is all but useless against the most likely form of attacks against the United States. If I wanted to destroy the country I wouldn't bother with a war. War is expensive especially if you have thoughts of fighting on foreign (i.e. U.S.A.) soil. Biological or chemical attacks launched from within the U.S. borders would be far more effective. Densely populated areas, such as Los Angeles or New York City would make excellent starting targets.
A structure that people would notice and preserve (or at least not destroy) like the Sphynx, Eifel tower or the Statue of Liberty might help a bit. You also need warnings that can be interpreted by future civilizations and need to assume that your native tongue is a lost language.
I realize its a bit different in the US, but in Canada being an engineer is like being a doctor or lawyers, they are professions and there are governing bodies that say whether you can call yourself one or not. Other than sanitation engineer I've still not heard the term misused in the U.S.
I've gone beyond a BASc. The MASc was within the "college of graduate studies" within the university and very closely affiliated with the electrical engineering department. When I'm done with my current work project I'll start seriously pursuing a PhD. It'll be within the college of Information and Technology within a university.
A friend of mine is going to medical school, not pre-med, its within a university and more or less operated as a college. So far all of your points have been wrong.