Interesting that we're not counting Columbia as a "launch" disaster. The foam that broke off and hit the orbiter wing happened on launch, so in my mind we're at 2/129, not 1/129. That particular failure mode is directly attributable to the questionable decision to mount the orbiter to the side of the stack, rather than on top: switching back to the "astronauts at the top of the stack" seems like a clear way to remove a bunch of that type of failure modes.
Of course, you achieve this increased light sensitivity at the expense of
losing 1/4 of your color resolution. Maybe if you want the increased
sensitivity it might make more sense to pick up something like the
Canon 1D Mk III, which, at least according to Ken Rockwell, gives great
results all the way up to ISO 6400. I'd hate to lose 1/4 of my color
resolution *all of the time* to get the added sensitivity that I only
need for a small fraction of the shots I take.
Gnome developer Havoc Pennington's response points out that "reducing complexity" was not, in fact, the reason the particular dialog in question doesn't have all the options Linux wanted:
"Just for the record, since I made this decision I can tell you that
'might confuse people' was not the reason. More evidence for my point
that 'might confuse people' is the reason made up by others, not the
reason given by the decision makers."
Which is not to say that Linus is wrong (in the e-mail he writes that "If this was a one-off, I'd buy it. But I've heard it too damn many times. And only ever from Gnome.") -- I'm not a big fan of Gnome's lack of features (at least as compared to KDE), but it's not like anyone on Slashdot really conforms to the "average computer user" concept. And Linus surely doesn't either. Maybe Gnome is better for Mom and Grandpa. I'll stick with KDE, myself.
In an age when parents are suing schools for not keeping adequate track of their children (see http://www.overlawyered.com/archives/001699.html) is this any wonder?
If it is going to be Apple's policy to not provide
support
for previous
operating systems from the day the new one comes out it is going to be
very, very difficult for them to break into the enterprise world. Even
Microsoft provides support for operating systems for a few years after
the new one is released. Maybe if enough people submit a
bug report Apple will do
something about it.
Quote:
"IBM expects Storage Tank eventually will be able to handle 10 to
20 terabytes of CERN data. By 2007, when the proton smashing is scheduled
to commence in earnest, CERN will be generating data at a minimum rate of
5 to 8 petabytes a year."
Wow! This monster storage tank will be able to handle 20
terabytes of data! In four years?! That's just amazing!!
A whole 1/1000th of the required yearly storage!
Quote:
"Storage Tank has the potential to become to an organization's
data what the Dewey Decimal system is to a library"
Strange that he compares it to a system that few
libraries use anymore. Yes, it revolutionized
cataloguing. Right before it became obsolete (because it cost too much).
Not too long ago Slashdot
reported
on the owners of the Dewey Decimal system
suing a hotel
in New York for using it as the theme for their room
numbering. How long until IBM starts suing everyone with a
storage
tank?
Funny you should ask: I just set up
Request Tracker
this afternoon. While it probably fits more into the bug-tracking genre
than anything else, I use it as a TODO list, a wish list and a bug tracking
system. It is very easy to use, and setting it up isn't TOO painful. It is
quite powerful (I use a MySQL backend)
and completely cross-platform (its main interface is web-based). It has
great e-mail integration, and your customers will be able to check the
status of their report as it makes its way through the system. In addition,
it's free, with support available
for a fee.
I have the HP48GX - it's a great calculator, but slow as molasses. According to this page HP will be releasing the 49G Real Soon Now(tm). I'll believe it when I see it, of course, but we can dream, right?
I bought a mac a few months ago, switching from primarily linux. And I love OS X - it's what I use day-to-day now. But I'm also a complete dork, so dual-booting OS X and YDL has a certain geek-appeal to me. While I don't actually use YDL for anything except testing my programs to ensure cross-platform-ness, it was entertaining to install and play with.
Where in slashcode should I look for this code? I did some (well, a little, anyway) digging around because I was curious, but I couldn't find it. I'd love to play around with it. Grepping for "duplicate" didn't net me much.
Yes, all that equipment is neccessary, and yes it costs enormous sums, but you don't need to purchase it every time! Most of those items are one-time costs to the studio, upgraded on a relatively slow schedule. The cost is spread out over all the artists that record there.
...and if Apple had chosen Mozilla's engine, the KHTML developers would have been "hurt." KHTML is a compact code by comparison - far easier for Apple to take and modify. What happened to the idea that choice is good? Apple is helping to turn KHTML into a more viable choice (I used Mozilla exclusively before Safari was release- I had never touched KHTML). Now there are a whole bunch of viable browsers out there.
Chris
More difficult than you would like. Ever try to get something using templates to compile on those four platforms? I don't recommend it. If you are trying to get into the more complex things that you can do with C++, it's *very*, *very* difficult to write 100% portable code.
I actually got to play with one of these last Tuesday while giving a presentation - the advantage is significant, but not the mouse/laser-pointer combo - it's the presentation remote/laser pointer that's slick. But that's been done. Combining that with a mouse, however, was a stroke of shear brilliance. When someone asks you a question and you need to go back to a specific slide, you can easily set the thing down on a surface and use it as a mouse, 30ft from the laptop running the presentation. Want to replay the movie on a page? Piece of cake. My only real qualm was the location of the trigger for the laser pointer - it wasn't in a particularly convenient location - too far back on the device.
Chris
This could potentially set a huge precedent - it's not just Microsoft's licenses that carry these agreements. If they manage to succeed with this line of reasoning I think we can expect a lot more software companies throwing their weight around. Which, in the end, is *very* good for the opensource community - we can transfer software all we want!
"capable of supersonic flight" and "as fast as it wants" are two very different things. The top speed for a turbojet is somewhere in the vicinity of Mach 2 - beyond that you need to go with a ramjet, which can get you into the low hypersonic regime. Beyond that, scramjets, then rockets are about the only way to go faster.
About a year ago I was starting to experience problems with my wrists after long days of coding. Looking for a quick-and-easy solution (no brace that I have to wear, no surgery, no changing my typing habits, etc.) I bought one of those keyboards that split into three pieces - both halves of the keyboard and then the keypad. That was I could type without doing the wrist-twisting thing. While I'd love to say I was duped (the keyboard was $150), I have had *no* problems with my wrists since then. Maybe just luck, but I kind of doubt it.
GTK is LGPLed - they are not required to release the source. Nor will they, I imagine, as it looks like someone spent a lot of money on this thing, and doens't really want us to have it for free (as in beer).
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I'll wait for Nathan Myhrvold's "Modernist Cuisine" - http://modernistcuisine.com/
Interesting that we're not counting Columbia as a "launch" disaster. The foam that broke off and hit the orbiter wing happened on launch, so in my mind we're at 2/129, not 1/129. That particular failure mode is directly attributable to the questionable decision to mount the orbiter to the side of the stack, rather than on top: switching back to the "astronauts at the top of the stack" seems like a clear way to remove a bunch of that type of failure modes.
Of course, you achieve this increased light sensitivity at the expense of losing 1/4 of your color resolution. Maybe if you want the increased sensitivity it might make more sense to pick up something like the Canon 1D Mk III, which, at least according to Ken Rockwell, gives great results all the way up to ISO 6400. I'd hate to lose 1/4 of my color resolution *all of the time* to get the added sensitivity that I only need for a small fraction of the shots I take.
Gnome developer Havoc Pennington's response points out that "reducing complexity" was not, in fact, the reason the particular dialog in question doesn't have all the options Linux wanted:
"Just for the record, since I made this decision I can tell you that 'might confuse people' was not the reason. More evidence for my point that 'might confuse people' is the reason made up by others, not the reason given by the decision makers."
Which is not to say that Linus is wrong (in the e-mail he writes that "If this was a one-off, I'd buy it. But I've heard it too damn many times. And only ever from Gnome.") -- I'm not a big fan of Gnome's lack of features (at least as compared to KDE), but it's not like anyone on Slashdot really conforms to the "average computer user" concept. And Linus surely doesn't either. Maybe Gnome is better for Mom and Grandpa. I'll stick with KDE, myself.
Notice that the author of the article is from an SEO himself: Rank your way to the bank. Clearly there is no conflict of interest here: he has no interest in making sites think they need to hire a new SEO to get around these "new" techniques... right... (the patent was filed in late 2003, IIRC)
In an age when parents are suing schools for not keeping adequate track of their children (see http://www.overlawyered.com/archives/001699.html) is this any wonder?
Since this is Slashdot, I should point out that a 2" diameter curve should actually *contract* to a 5" circumference, not widen.
Here are the bugtraq links to the specific vulnerabilities:
Arbitrary File Overwrite via Core Files
Systemic Insecure File Permissions
Long argv[] buffer overflow
If it is going to be Apple's policy to not provide support for previous operating systems from the day the new one comes out it is going to be very, very difficult for them to break into the enterprise world. Even Microsoft provides support for operating systems for a few years after the new one is released. Maybe if enough people submit a bug report Apple will do something about it.
Quote:
"IBM expects Storage Tank eventually will be able to handle 10 to 20 terabytes of CERN data. By 2007, when the proton smashing is scheduled to commence in earnest, CERN will be generating data at a minimum rate of 5 to 8 petabytes a year."
Wow! This monster storage tank will be able to handle 20 terabytes of data! In four years?! That's just amazing!! A whole 1/1000th of the required yearly storage!
Quote:
"Storage Tank has the potential to become to an organization's data what the Dewey Decimal system is to a library"
Strange that he compares it to a system that few libraries use anymore. Yes, it revolutionized cataloguing. Right before it became obsolete (because it cost too much).
Not too long ago Slashdot reported on the owners of the Dewey Decimal system suing a hotel in New York for using it as the theme for their room numbering. How long until IBM starts suing everyone with a storage tank?
Funny you should ask: I just set up Request Tracker this afternoon. While it probably fits more into the bug-tracking genre than anything else, I use it as a TODO list, a wish list and a bug tracking system. It is very easy to use, and setting it up isn't TOO painful. It is quite powerful (I use a MySQL backend) and completely cross-platform (its main interface is web-based). It has great e-mail integration, and your customers will be able to check the status of their report as it makes its way through the system. In addition, it's free, with support available for a fee.
I have the HP48GX - it's a great calculator, but slow as molasses. According to this page HP will be releasing the 49G Real Soon Now(tm). I'll believe it when I see it, of course, but we can dream, right?
I bought a mac a few months ago, switching from primarily linux. And I love OS X - it's what I use day-to-day now. But I'm also a complete dork, so dual-booting OS X and YDL has a certain geek-appeal to me. While I don't actually use YDL for anything except testing my programs to ensure cross-platform-ness, it was entertaining to install and play with.
What good is a slashdot article without a picture?
Where in slashcode should I look for this code? I did some (well, a little, anyway) digging around because I was curious, but I couldn't find it. I'd love to play around with it. Grepping for "duplicate" didn't net me much.
Yes, all that equipment is neccessary, and yes it costs enormous sums, but you don't need to purchase it every time! Most of those items are one-time costs to the studio, upgraded on a relatively slow schedule. The cost is spread out over all the artists that record there.
...and if Apple had chosen Mozilla's engine, the KHTML developers would have been "hurt." KHTML is a compact code by comparison - far easier for Apple to take and modify. What happened to the idea that choice is good? Apple is helping to turn KHTML into a more viable choice (I used Mozilla exclusively before Safari was release- I had never touched KHTML). Now there are a whole bunch of viable browsers out there. Chris
More difficult than you would like. Ever try to get something using templates to compile on those four platforms? I don't recommend it. If you are trying to get into the more complex things that you can do with C++, it's *very*, *very* difficult to write 100% portable code.
I actually got to play with one of these last Tuesday while giving a presentation - the advantage is significant, but not the mouse/laser-pointer combo - it's the presentation remote/laser pointer that's slick. But that's been done. Combining that with a mouse, however, was a stroke of shear brilliance. When someone asks you a question and you need to go back to a specific slide, you can easily set the thing down on a surface and use it as a mouse, 30ft from the laptop running the presentation. Want to replay the movie on a page? Piece of cake. My only real qualm was the location of the trigger for the laser pointer - it wasn't in a particularly convenient location - too far back on the device. Chris
This could potentially set a huge precedent - it's not just Microsoft's licenses that carry these agreements. If they manage to succeed with this line of reasoning I think we can expect a lot more software companies throwing their weight around. Which, in the end, is *very* good for the opensource community - we can transfer software all we want!
From the article: "But my silence is original silence, not a quotation from his silence." Ah! My brain is melting!
"Some of these corporations, we are told, have their own little networks--that is very clearly illegal."
--RIAA President Cary Sherman
Man, I hope this one was taken out of context!!
"capable of supersonic flight" and "as fast as it wants" are two very different things. The top speed for a turbojet is somewhere in the vicinity of Mach 2 - beyond that you need to go with a ramjet, which can get you into the low hypersonic regime. Beyond that, scramjets, then rockets are about the only way to go faster.
About a year ago I was starting to experience problems with my wrists after long days of coding. Looking for a quick-and-easy solution (no brace that I have to wear, no surgery, no changing my typing habits, etc.) I bought one of those keyboards that split into three pieces - both halves of the keyboard and then the keypad. That was I could type without doing the wrist-twisting thing. While I'd love to say I was duped (the keyboard was $150), I have had *no* problems with my wrists since then. Maybe just luck, but I kind of doubt it.
Chris
GTK is LGPLed - they are not required to release the source. Nor will they, I imagine, as it looks like someone spent a lot of money on this thing, and doens't really want us to have it for free (as in beer).