First off, I wish you the best of luck from Denmark this tuesday. (Denmark, that little State with something rotten in it, acording to Hamlet)
Hopefully Kerry will win, but I am not so certain. Bush has proved that he can play the puppet for the very rich and might just get 4 more years. Think about it! For the next four years he woun't have to think about getting re-elected! Now THAT's a frightning thought!
"The War on Terror" will go on and the American public will live in a world of Terror a bit longer.
Either Kerry or Bush will win by a margin of less than 2%.. that's not winning! Let Kerry win now by a margin of 25%.. or let him win in 4 years by that margin.
Either way, YOU are going to take the blund end of this, so go and vote.. bring everybody you know and their neighbour.
Again; Good Luck from Denmark. Our thoughts are with you!
Voting next Tuesday will not give anybody a better understanding of the difference between a patent and a copyright.
Just because a country is called "the land of the free" does not mean that it IS the land of the free, now does it? (you can only be "free" if you have money and a large part of the population in the US of A does not have enough for basic needs)
from dpreview Casio has announced the highest resolution LCD display to date, a 2.2" HAST TFT LCD monitor with full VGA (640 x 480) resolution. The majority of LCD monitors used in digital cameras today have QVGA (320 x 240) resolution (230,000 total pixels), this new screen would deliver over 900,000 pixels which would produce a far more detailed reproduction of images, very useful for immediate record review or playback verification. Casio claim that this new screen has the same power consumption as the older models.
I guess it wouldn't be difficult to slam one of theese babies on a PDA?
dpreview had a press release from Casio a few weeks ago..
Highlights:... higher refractive index than glass. [snip]... thinner and stronger than conventional glass...[snip] reduction in the profile of a lens system by approximately 20%.
...that's the reason why bad code is written and why systems crash.
I have, time and again, been asked to cut corners in the design during the implementation phase of a project. The result is, that too much is cut in order to meet the deadline, another project sucks out key resources after the deadline and the product is rushed into production.
Everybody is happy until things start falling apart.. patch time!
44% of the employees (a couple of hundred) in my department are consultants , employed on a timelimeted contract. Some slam things together knowing they are not present when "patch time" starts..
Bad testing, bad deadlines and rushed projects is the cause of a lot of evil!
Luckily, I can still express myself in the cvs comments and the random comments in the code:-)
1) 0.5% (mp3's from 1997..) 2) 0% (iTMS not open in Denmark, yet) 3) 3.5% (mix of the week + technonet/turbulent) 4) 83% (90 albums encoded in 320 kbps AAC) 5) 13% (15 albums*)
*friends include girlfriend and brothers Note that 5) is legal under fair use, in Denmark.
My 20GB G4 iPod contains 70% music and a percent worth of tools (putty, cygwin, emacs) as I found out that it works quite ok with USB1.1 eventhough Apple doesn't advertise it much..
Well, if YOU hav decades worth of CD's in your collection, your spouse, your kids, your brothers, sisters and close friends can use said CD's under Fair Use... that 20 gig iPod suddenly seems easy to fill up, as you have the same access to their collections of music..
well, that's how things work in Denmark, anyway. In The US of A the above list of people might have to buy their own copy of each CD, I don't know..
Many albums are still available on vinyl, cd and cassette... some even in one or several digitally encoded (reduced) form. (several parallel distribution systems have existed for the last 15-20 years)
Going from vinyl to cd's you had to buy the cd, because you couldn't transfer an album you already had... fine, for The Industry. CD's are not lossless compared with vinyl, it's still a digital format whereas vinyl is basicically analog..
Now, people are encoding their cd collections without the help of anybody and The Industry is not getting a second sale.. no wonder they are pissed.
The way things are going the walkman generation will be moving to iPods or similar. 10.000 songs at 128kbs or 5000 at 256 kbs.. the way harddisk space is going, quality will go up leaving the number of songs at roughly the same spot..
Airburst nukes don't give off a lot of radioactive fallout. I think we can assume that if North Korea was testing nukes in the open, they took precautions to minimize radioactive fallout. It makes no sense to poison their own land. ...which is why they are testing this near the border of China.
Everybody seems to be willing to poison the outskirts of their own land or preferably an old colony as far away from the homeland as possible..
Check out Marshall Islands, Christmas Island, French Polynesia for the American, British and French 'nuclear testing facilities' respectively.
I hope you have better conditions at your current job!
Sometimes I find it amazing that companies are so short sighted.. working somebody to the ground will acomplish nothing. A shorter workweek with time left over to som sort of private life will produce a better quality of work.
The last couple of years I'v booked my vacation (with the airline company) BEFORE I've asked my boss permission to go! He knows, that I woun't go if it's critical to the company that I'm there. Freedom with responsability if you like.
Shit, will the country be under water in 50 years?!? Now I'm getting stressed!:-)
Well, as a lot of the ice caps are actually owned by Denmark (Greenland is a danish colony) I am sure somebody will start exporting clean drinking water, thus reducing the impact on the melting process.. well, it could happen..
No, seriously, I think the world has more serious problems to solve in the next 50 years than one small country disapearing into the sea! Holland or the Nederlands do have quite a big area below sea level, so the solusions are not unknown.
The multi-lingual thing.. yes, it's a small country we have here, so we sort of have to be able to speak to the neighbours. With this being Europe all the neighbours talk different languages. English is taught in school from 4th grade (age 9-10), German from 7th grade (age 12-13), French/Spanish/Italian can be chosen in highschool (from age 17)
Fiveyear olds speaking english is amazing, and with influence from tv (not dubbed), parents, friends etc. it's not unheard of.
is maybe the only excuse posible to use in order to avoid working extra hours..
I live and work in Denmark and our working conditions are a bit different from the American.
From the first year I worked (as a programmer) I've had 5 weeks vacation every year. With 3 days extra off to "take care of the kids". The last part has been changed so people without kids can have days off as well.. and the number of days have gone up to 5.
I do not get paid for doing extra hours, unless I have a specific agreement (from time to time) with the company. Extra hours, "within reason" are included in my salary. So, all I have to do is having an excuse to go home at a reasonable hour every day, thus avoiding extra hours. (dificult at times but it works)
Fair?
Well, the company pays my IBM T30 (a few years old now), my DSL line, my land line, and my mobile phone (usage on all included).
Dental and Health is taken care of by the State and my overall taxes last year was 45%.
I am not a member of the union, but benefit from the deals they strike anyway. If the company piss on me, I have to let them, unless I become a member and have the union piss back..
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First off, I wish you the best of luck from Denmark this tuesday. (Denmark, that little State with something rotten in it, acording to Hamlet)
.. that's not winning! Let Kerry win now by a margin of 25% .. or let him win in 4 years by that margin.
.. bring everybody you know and their neighbour.
Hopefully Kerry will win, but I am not so certain. Bush has proved that he can play the puppet for the very rich and might just get 4 more years. Think about it! For the next four years he woun't have to think about getting re-elected! Now THAT's a frightning thought!
"The War on Terror" will go on and the American public will live in a world of Terror a bit longer.
Either Kerry or Bush will win by a margin of less than 2%
Either way, YOU are going to take the blund end of this, so go and vote
Again; Good Luck from Denmark. Our thoughts are with you!
"11/2-2004, the end of an error" ..but probably not in your compiles, though ;-)
Good luck from Denmark.
Voting next Tuesday will not give anybody a better understanding of the difference between a patent and a copyright.
Just because a country is called "the land of the free" does not mean that it IS the land of the free, now does it?
(you can only be "free" if you have money and a large part of the population in the US of A does not have enough for basic needs)
from dpreview
Casio has announced the highest resolution LCD display to date, a 2.2" HAST TFT LCD monitor with full VGA (640 x 480) resolution. The majority of LCD monitors used in digital cameras today have QVGA (320 x 240) resolution (230,000 total pixels), this new screen would deliver over 900,000 pixels which would produce a far more detailed reproduction of images, very useful for immediate record review or playback verification. Casio claim that this new screen has the same power consumption as the older models.
I guess it wouldn't be difficult to slam one of theese babies on a PDA?
..because he thought that the RIAA had finally caught up with him...
dpreview had a press release from Casio a few weeks ago..
... higher refractive index than glass. [snip]... thinner and stronger than conventional glass. ..[snip] reduction in the profile of a lens system by approximately 20%.
Highlights:
Actually the water/air has actually become cleaner since Bush took office.
- George Orwell, 1984
...that's the reason why bad code is written and why systems crash.
.. patch time!
..
:-)
I have, time and again, been asked to cut corners in the design during the implementation phase of a project. The result is, that too much is cut in order to meet the deadline, another project sucks out key resources after the deadline and the product is rushed into production.
Everybody is happy until things start falling apart
44% of the employees (a couple of hundred) in my department are consultants , employed on a timelimeted contract. Some slam things together knowing they are not present when "patch time" starts
Bad testing, bad deadlines and rushed projects is the cause of a lot of evil!
Luckily, I can still express myself in the cvs comments and the random comments in the code
...and a Windows machine isn't supposed to be able to run for 30 days without reboot anyway. It was a honest mistake on part of the programmer! :-)
1) 0.5% (mp3's from 1997..)
2) 0% (iTMS not open in Denmark, yet)
3) 3.5% (mix of the week + technonet/turbulent)
4) 83% (90 albums encoded in 320 kbps AAC)
5) 13% (15 albums*)
*friends include girlfriend and brothers
Note that 5) is legal under fair use, in Denmark.
My 20GB G4 iPod contains 70% music and a percent worth of tools (putty, cygwin, emacs) as I found out that it works quite ok with USB1.1 eventhough Apple doesn't advertise it much..
the sound is very scary .. because it's real
...so now I have been called a thief and a child in the same breath! /klang
using windows, linux and solaris
owns an iPod
well they did sue that grandmother, who was a Mac user .. which was why the charge was dropped ..
.. them evil hackers are too smart and hide too quick .. :-)
.. That must be what they mean when they say that Windows is insecure, right?
linux users
only Windows users sued
Well, if YOU hav decades worth of CD's in your collection, your spouse, your kids, your brothers, sisters and close friends can use said CD's under Fair Use. .. that 20 gig iPod suddenly seems easy to fill up, as you have the same access to their collections of music..
..
well, that's how things work in Denmark, anyway. In The US of A the above list of people might have to buy their own copy of each CD, I don't know
Or ..
.. the artist, the artist ..
Because then the RIAA would not have control. Since when was this about the artist?
That is what the RIAA (and their likes in other countries) keep shouting about
a patent which describes a way for a piece of software to "ask for help" from another application
.. give me the value of .. sub f { $x = shift; return $x^2 + x + 1 }... f(x)=x^2+x+1
Ask for help
OMG! Kodak has a patent on mathematics!
Shit!
you are not an addict until you burn your own beans!
well back to free as in "free beer" then :-)
12 million music CD's .. I would NOT want to rip that many .. :-)
It is true that with vinyl the difference in sound varied with the equiptment and varied quite a bit. With CD's that difference might not be so great.
:-)
Me? I am happy with 128-320 kbs encoded mp3 as I don't have an expensive HI-FI anyway
Many albums are still available on vinyl, cd and cassette ... some even in one or several digitally encoded (reduced) form. (several parallel distribution systems have existed for the last 15-20 years)
.. no wonder they are pissed.
.. the way harddisk space is going, quality will go up leaving the number of songs at roughly the same spot ..
Going from vinyl to cd's you had to buy the cd, because you couldn't transfer an album you already had... fine, for The Industry. CD's are not lossless compared with vinyl, it's still a digital format whereas vinyl is basicically analog..
Now, people are encoding their cd collections without the help of anybody and The Industry is not getting a second sale
The way things are going the walkman generation will be moving to iPods or similar. 10.000 songs at 128kbs or 5000 at 256 kbs
Airburst nukes don't give off a lot of radioactive fallout. I think we can assume that if North Korea was testing nukes in the open, they took precautions to minimize radioactive fallout. It makes no sense to poison their own land.
...which is why they are testing this near the border of China.
Everybody seems to be willing to poison the outskirts of their own land or preferably an old colony as far away from the homeland as possible..
Check out Marshall Islands, Christmas Island, French Polynesia for the American, British and French 'nuclear testing facilities' respectively.
I hope you have better conditions at your current job!
Sometimes I find it amazing that companies are so short sighted.. working somebody to the ground will acomplish nothing. A shorter workweek with time left over to som sort of private life will produce a better quality of work.
The last couple of years I'v booked my vacation (with the airline company) BEFORE I've asked my boss permission to go! He knows, that I woun't go if it's critical to the company that I'm there. Freedom with responsability if you like.
Shit, will the country be under water in 50 years?!? Now I'm getting stressed! :-)
.. well, it could happen ..
.. yes, it's a small country we have here, so we sort of have to be able to speak to the neighbours. With this being Europe all the neighbours talk different languages. English is taught in school from 4th grade (age 9-10), German from 7th grade (age 12-13), French/Spanish/Italian can be chosen in highschool (from age 17)
Well, as a lot of the ice caps are actually owned by Denmark (Greenland is a danish colony) I am sure somebody will start exporting clean drinking water, thus reducing the impact on the melting process
No, seriously, I think the world has more serious problems to solve in the next 50 years than one small country disapearing into the sea! Holland or the Nederlands do have quite a big area below sea level, so the solusions are not unknown.
The multi-lingual thing
Fiveyear olds speaking english is amazing, and with influence from tv (not dubbed), parents, friends etc. it's not unheard of.
is maybe the only excuse posible to use in order to avoid working extra hours ..
.. and the number of days have gone up to 5.
:-)
I live and work in Denmark and our working conditions are a bit different from the American.
From the first year I worked (as a programmer) I've had 5 weeks vacation every year. With 3 days extra off to "take care of the kids". The last part has been changed so people without kids can have days off as well
I do not get paid for doing extra hours, unless I have a specific agreement (from time to time) with the company. Extra hours, "within reason" are included in my salary. So, all I have to do is having an excuse to go home at a reasonable hour every day, thus avoiding extra hours. (dificult at times but it works)
Fair?
Well, the company pays my IBM T30 (a few years old now), my DSL line, my land line, and my mobile phone (usage on all included).
Dental and Health is taken care of by the State and my overall taxes last year was 45%.
I am not a member of the union, but benefit from the deals they strike anyway. If the company piss on me, I have to let them, unless I become a member and have the union piss back..
Something rotten in the State of Denmark?
not really..