If it works as advertised, then in addition to my photos always being in focus, I can selectively de-focus parts of them in the laboratory later.
Artsy photographers like me are all about the bokeh, which means the out-of-focus areas in a photo. We use it to draw attention to the subject, and to make a pleasingly abstract blurred background out of the dumpster or whatever that we're shooting against.
We often pay big money for lenses that create pleasing bokeh.
If I can say that everything more than 3.1m away from the lens should be progressively blurred, well, that would be sweet indeed.
I don't trust the government any more than you do, I suspect. But your assertion that the "hazards of the fuel where nil" seems incorrect.
Here's a material safety data sheet for hydrazine:
http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Hydrazine-9924279 (pdf). It is extremely nasty stuff. Note in particular the full-suit requirements, and the teensy-sized lethal exposure levels.
Hydrazine is one of those substances where if you can smell it, you're already dead.
So maybe this is just a little drama. Maybe there was a secret self-destruct device in the (totally secret) satellite, and they pushed the button just as the missile approached, thus guaranteeing a success.
I am wrestling with this. If you can see me, from the street, from a car, for God's sake, then how much expectation of privacy do I really have?
I'm not sure I understand the objections. If I go to a strip club, and I am seen leaving it, well, then, I was a douchebag for not being sneakier about it, if I don't want anybody to know.
Is the problem that the photos are being published on a widely-used web page?
You know, I'm about as big of an Apple fanboi as you're likely to meet... But even I am excited about this, and am hopeful that it's the beginning of a change in the industry.
And it could be even bigger: If the music industry can start treating their customers like clients, instead of vermin, then perhaps there's hope for the airlines (motto: we fucking HATE our customers).
The line printers were awesome machines. Paper moved through them like water through a firehose (at least, that's how it seemed to me at the time). The paper moved even faster when skipping over the blank spaces on the paper (at the perforations), or when you pressed the "SPEW" button.
They also had little dangly chains that touched the papera it was fed, to dissipate the static electric charge that built up from moving all that paper so quickly.
Even a small one was always housed inside a massive enclosure with egg-crate foam covering the inside, as sound insulation. Sealing them up, though, made 'em run nice and hot.
That's a good idea. But you can get teensy little hardware keyloggers for about $50 that you plug in between the keyboard and the box, which defeat even the boot-from-your-own-media defense.
The end of the Microsoft monolith? I don't think so. OK, so Vista is bloaty, and a monoculture is risky. So what? Are the masses of IT directors going to think, "Gee, monoculture is bad, I think I'll replace all my Dell desktops with iMacs"?
There are approximately one grillion machines running XP and Windows 2000, and doing their jobs more or less successfully (if not securely), and being supported. Many (most?) will not be upgraded to Vista, given the high costs and dubious benefits. So they will stay the same.
How does this work out to the end of the monolith?
I have to agree: even if it does have a microphone, go buy a reasonable-quality headset.
If you're attempting to communicate via speech, you really need to be using a headset. It's just too friggin' hard to understand people who are using an omnidirectional microphone. I do NOT want to hear your stupid dog barking.
Boy, that's a light press release. The main question is unanswered: what does it use for fuel? Gin? Composted elderberries? It says "non-flmmable." Does that mean that the fuel cell itself won't catch fire while you're using it? Does it require a handy liquid-hydrogen refill tank?
And what the HELL is the deal with the light-blue on white typeface?
I found a clapped-out old 600 MHz laptop with 256 Mb of RAM, running a weird AMD K6 processor.
Ubuntu offers a "server" install option, which creates a stripped-down no-desktop server machine. After a few REALLY SIMPLE install commands like apt-get install apache2 , I had a fully-operational Web and file server, which I could put in a closet and administer via ssh.
Live auctions? Over the phone? And not just over the phone, but over a cheese-laden peer-to-peer VOIP lash-up?
For things worth actual money?
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Great idea, boys.
Is it going to index my Outlook mail on Exchange?
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I can't tell from my cursory review of the web page... So I'll ask here: The Google Desktop Search engine claims to index my "Outlook EMail." What does this mean? Does it contain an Exchange client? Is it going to sift through all my eleventy-million e-mails on my company's Exchange server?
If so: is this a good idea? What will my Exchange administrator think about this? What if lots of us start doing this? Exchange servers are notoriously flaky.
I would sure love to have a quick way to search for the butt-covering e-mail that I sent to Finster a year ago.
I know this is off-topic, but... Does anybody else see significant numbers of posts that appear to belong to other topics sprinkled throughout Slashdot today?
The other replies to "You BASTARDS" seem to belong to the article regarding IE memory leaks.
Maybe now's a good time to put in a plug for the RISKS "Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems."
It sounds academic, but it's full of level-headed dissection of all kinds of software-related disasters, ranging from the hilarious, like the USS Yorktown dead in the water after a divide by zero, to the horrifying. The contributors are skeptical but polite, and I learn new stuff with every issue.
His admittedly childish behavior is causing the words "Opera browser" to pass through the brains of geeks like me, however fleetingly. This is a powerful thing, no matter how it's done.
If I was one of his minions, and had just spent a year busting my ass working on this thing, I'd be mighty proud of him.
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I wish I had mod points, and that there was a "jerk" modifier. It would be appropriate here.
Maybe not room temperature, even in Siberia: by my advanced calculations, 200 K = minus 100 F (or -73 C).
But still very exciting.
If it works as advertised, then in addition to my photos always being in focus, I can selectively de-focus parts of them in the laboratory later.
Artsy photographers like me are all about the bokeh, which means the out-of-focus areas in a photo. We use it to draw attention to the subject, and to make a pleasingly abstract blurred background out of the dumpster or whatever that we're shooting against.
We often pay big money for lenses that create pleasing bokeh.
If I can say that everything more than 3.1m away from the lens should be progressively blurred, well, that would be sweet indeed.
Here's a material safety data sheet for hydrazine: http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Hydrazine-9924279 (pdf). It is extremely nasty stuff. Note in particular the full-suit requirements, and the teensy-sized lethal exposure levels.
Hydrazine is one of those substances where if you can smell it, you're already dead.
So maybe this is just a little drama. Maybe there was a secret self-destruct device in the (totally secret) satellite, and they pushed the button just as the missile approached, thus guaranteeing a success.
But do NOT disrespect the hydrazine.
Ha ha ha ha! Very funny. Wish I had mod points.
I am wrestling with this. If you can see me, from the street, from a car, for God's sake, then how much expectation of privacy do I really have?
I'm not sure I understand the objections. If I go to a strip club, and I am seen leaving it, well, then, I was a douchebag for not being sneakier about it, if I don't want anybody to know.
Is the problem that the photos are being published on a widely-used web page?
You know, I'm about as big of an Apple fanboi as you're likely to meet... But even I am excited about this, and am hopeful that it's the beginning of a change in the industry.
And it could be even bigger: If the music industry can start treating their customers like clients, instead of vermin, then perhaps there's hope for the airlines (motto: we fucking HATE our customers).
A boy can dream.
The line printers were awesome machines. Paper moved through them like water through a firehose (at least, that's how it seemed to me at the time). The paper moved even faster when skipping over the blank spaces on the paper (at the perforations), or when you pressed the "SPEW" button.
They also had little dangly chains that touched the papera it was fed, to dissipate the static electric charge that built up from moving all that paper so quickly.
Even a small one was always housed inside a massive enclosure with egg-crate foam covering the inside, as sound insulation. Sealing them up, though, made 'em run nice and hot.
Beastly.
That's a good idea. But you can get teensy little hardware keyloggers for about $50 that you plug in between the keyboard and the box, which defeat even the boot-from-your-own-media defense.
The end of the Microsoft monolith? I don't think so. OK, so Vista is bloaty, and a monoculture is risky. So what? Are the masses of IT directors going to think, "Gee, monoculture is bad, I think I'll replace all my Dell desktops with iMacs"?
There are approximately one grillion machines running XP and Windows 2000, and doing their jobs more or less successfully (if not securely), and being supported. Many (most?) will not be upgraded to Vista, given the high costs and dubious benefits. So they will stay the same.
How does this work out to the end of the monolith?
I had that experience, too, until I told FireFox to allow JavaScript from gotuit.com.
Then I got stupid music videos and marketroid yammering, and I was sorry that I'd wasted my thirty seconds.
If you don't enable JavaScript from gotuit.com, everything you click on results in a grey page with the words "Nothing here".
Which I find sort of funny.
So what exactly does "professional" content mean?
is this like the newspapers claiming that their content is "professional", and so you shouldn't read those dumb blogs?
Or does it mean that it's just commercials?
Remember the formula: horse + donkey = mule
See http://www.ruralheritage.com/mule_paddock/mule_com pare.htm
Unless you mean honky. But that's a different branch of science.
I have to agree: even if it does have a microphone, go buy a reasonable-quality headset.
If you're attempting to communicate via speech, you really need to be using a headset. It's just too friggin' hard to understand people who are using an omnidirectional microphone. I do NOT want to hear your stupid dog barking.
Not to mention issues like echo.
John Tesh, on the other hand, has a rather alien-sounding track called "Red Rain" on his 1997 horror-show entitled (shudder) Sax All Night.
Boy, that's a light press release. The main question is unanswered: what does it use for fuel? Gin? Composted elderberries? It says "non-flmmable." Does that mean that the fuel cell itself won't catch fire while you're using it? Does it require a handy liquid-hydrogen refill tank?
And what the HELL is the deal with the light-blue on white typeface?
I found a clapped-out old 600 MHz laptop with 256 Mb of RAM, running a weird AMD K6 processor.
Ubuntu offers a "server" install option, which creates a stripped-down no-desktop server machine. After a few REALLY SIMPLE install commands like apt-get install apache2 , I had a fully-operational Web and file server, which I could put in a closet and administer via ssh.
It just worked.
If benchmarks are even halfway legit, then this is indeed something amazing.
For things worth actual money?
I bid grgle-snrt I bid zzzzffff No, I bid kkkppp No first f-f-f-f-first! twenty eeeehooonnnggg but wait a wawawa twenty-eight pork
Great idea, boys.
I can't tell from my cursory review of the web page... So I'll ask here: The Google Desktop Search engine claims to index my "Outlook EMail." What does this mean? Does it contain an Exchange client? Is it going to sift through all my eleventy-million e-mails on my company's Exchange server?
If so: is this a good idea? What will my Exchange administrator think about this? What if lots of us start doing this? Exchange servers are notoriously flaky.
I would sure love to have a quick way to search for the butt-covering e-mail that I sent to Finster a year ago.
I know this is off-topic, but... Does anybody else see significant numbers of posts that appear to belong to other topics sprinkled throughout Slashdot today?
The other replies to "You BASTARDS" seem to belong to the article regarding IE memory leaks.
Maybe it's just my browser.
499 UK pounds is almost $912. And you don't get extras like a keyboard.
For that kind of dough, you can get a pretty fancy Intel computer.
OK, the architecture is "elegant." And the form factor is really tiny. How else is this useful?
Maybe now's a good time to put in a plug for the RISKS "Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems."
It sounds academic, but it's full of level-headed dissection of all kinds of software-related disasters, ranging from the hilarious, like the USS Yorktown dead in the water after a divide by zero, to the horrifying. The contributors are skeptical but polite, and I learn new stuff with every issue.
Well, good luck to him.
His admittedly childish behavior is causing the words "Opera browser" to pass through the brains of geeks like me, however fleetingly. This is a powerful thing, no matter how it's done.
If I was one of his minions, and had just spent a year busting my ass working on this thing, I'd be mighty proud of him.