VIDEO: I had access to a 486-66 with an intel hardware video encoder. I could encode a 160x120 video at something like 15 FPS and if I used the hardware encoder it would come out really blocky, it was much smoother when I wrote it unencoded and used Indeo3 to compress it. I expeced in 10 years I would be able to smoothly watch full movies on the computer.
AUDIO: I encoded several albums to mp2 (yup, before there was a free mp3 encoder) and burned them to a cd. I wanted all my cd's on a hard disk.
IMAGES: I was scanning in images at a managable 75dpi (about 300x450pixels) In 10 years I wanted all my pictures on computer (by 1995, I was using PhotoCD's so I partially got my wish early)
INTERNET: Wished everyone could have email. I think I was still dealing with gateways to FIDONet to email my dad. Wasn't sure if WWW or Gopher was better/more usable. Gopher had some nice stuff then (wiretap) there were also some useful services available via finger (weather and such) I thought in 10 years most people would at least have shell access to the internet (and a chunk would have SLIP) and have symetric T1 speeds.
Of course, those are just the things I came close on. I also expected more dualprocessors, that everyone would have 9Gig hard drives and 21 inch monitors (I can't believe still people buy smaller ones) and that everything would have spell checking.
I saw an ad for this in Ritz Camera (they are also Wolf camera I think) It is only in selected stores (and doesn't seem to be on the web site. I had the same thought you did, I haven't seen it, but I bet it uses some funky connector on a USB cable to unload the pictures and recharge it.
I just saw the ad and from it I was unsure if prints/cd was included or if that was another $11 and it also didn't give the resolution. Anyone try it?
First of all, let me remind people that these are instant messaging programs. However, they've turned into chat programs. I don't want to chat with somebody, so don't keep a resident chat window up. I want to send an instant message. One. Then I want to get an instant message. Not a chat. What ever happened to that paradigm?
letmesee, you want to be able to send a message, then at some undetermined time later you want to get a reply, and until then, not know if the person actually got it? That paradigm is now called e-mail, please update your paradigm dispatch table.
And, of course, there's my personal favorite: invisible mode. It's very handy for when you want to jump on to look for a specific person you need to get in touch with, but don't want to be bothered with talking to anybody else.
What happends if the person you want to talk to is also in invisible mode?
It seems that what you want is the benefits of IM (instant access to all your friends whenever you want) without the disadvantages (they have instant access to you) It seems a little unfair to me.
On the other hand, the Occupied status seems useful, 'don't bug me unless it is important'
How do you claim that the picture is yours, especially when the person who ripped you off could have ripped off all your pictures? There remains no authenticity or ownership especially if you have a generic tourist picture (postcard worthy).
Don't post the highest resolution version of an image to your website. Then, if someone rips you off, you can produce a higher resolution version, but they won't be able to, that should pretty much prove you took the original (IANAL though).
There generally isn't a need to post images larger than a megapixel, if someone wants to make a print, you can email them the full sized version.
If the internet part of their business is run from somewhere besides California, they moved the primary HQ away from California, would they still have to charge a non-californian resident sales tax for California merely because they have some retail shops there?
Yes, If a company had a physical presence in CA, then they have to charge CA sales tax when they ship to a CA address. Note that it doesn't have to be a retail shop, it could be HQ or an order processing center. I think pretty much all states follow this. The bill that CA is proposing just expands the definition of a "physical precence".
Where and how do they draw the line? Do they pick the max tax? Do they split it up? It seems insane.
The tax gets paid to whatever locality the shipping address is in, no splitting up the tax among states, it is a very deterministic process. The same rules apply to mail order as well.
It can still be a complicated calculation because in CA, the state has sales tax, so does the county and possibly even the city, so you would have to take all that into account when figuring out how much the tax is.
The Nikon D100 will take your Nikon lenses and 'only' costs $1,700, which is still more than a good Nikon film body, but a whole lot less than $6k.
If you have manual lenses, you will lose TTL metering, and since the photosensor is not as large as a 35mm frame, you get 1.5x magnification (your 50mm lense suddenly becomes 75mm), but other than that, it is very nice, it doesn't have most of the problems you hear about with digital. The autofocus is fast, it can take 3 frames a second, all you Nikon lenses, some of the speedlights, 6 megapixels of glory!
News.com just updated their article on the chip to state that "a possible problem with the 3GHz Pentium 4, discovered at the last minute, forced the company to delay the chip late on Sunday."
Joel's message boards are trying to build community, not just be simple forums. Notice that what many of the posters to slashdot have said is all these features make it easier to jump in, get the good stuff and get moving with life. Community on the other hand is about people sticking around and having a conversation.
I don't know about where you went to college, but no professor of mine would accept any encyclopedia as a reference. They were good for a general overview of the subject, but don't have the depth you need to write a paper.
> What would be nice in addition to a moderation > system would be a bio from the author or place > where the article originated
I would like to here your proposal for a moderation system, that seems to imply competing articles, a concept that wikipedia doesn't have. Further, attached to each article is the entire edit history of the document and a link to all the (non-anonymous) authors who have worked on it. If those authors have provided a bio (few have) you can get to it.
> I hate the idea of anyone just editing the > content. Bad bad bad! Beyond bad. This could > kill it.
I think the opposite is true. The only way it got to 100,000 articles is that anyone can edit it. If what you suggest is true, it would have died sometime in the past two years. What could kill it is removing the ability for everyone to edit it.
I got one of these after the last slashdot story on them, we had a blast playing with them at the office, but they don't keep your attention that long. On the plus side, they're neat to look at and the battery charge lasted longer than I expected, but they aren't very fast and won't run on most carpets.
My cat,however, has not got tired of it yet, he will smack it around quite a bit.
I had to do something similar when trying to convince a company that offsite backups were important. Backup, burn the place down... Maybe I shouldn't be telling you this:)
Because most of the 'really well known' and yet APPROPRIATE standards bodies require you to be a member to submit or make changes to a proposed spec and it costs money to be a member.
You could try the software suspend patches. Allows any hardware to suspend without hardware support (so it will work on desktops too) I think it does some nice stuff to try and minimize the suspend image (like swapping all processes out first) but don't know if it is stable. The homepage is Software Suspend .
You really don't remember AMD before that? Not their 486-120 (faster than Intel's fastest 486-100) or their 386-40 (to Intel's 386-33) or there 286-16 (and even 20 I believe).
All those examples pretty much came after Intel moved to a better technology and stopped developing the older generation, much like the K6-III coming out long past when it could be a real player (because of the weak floating point).
The reason why it is 'stable enough' for desktop use
is not because crashes are more acceptable, but because desktops don't usually have the load characteristics that Linux has trouble with. On the desktop, my system never crashes, but I have plenty of free swap space and there are usually only 1 or 2 programs active.
On a server, you are often using a much larger % of memory, may have dozens or hundreds of short lived processes all trying to access the same resources at the same time (disk, network).
That is why you see people posting that their DNS server doesn't crash, but people who are serving tons of http or nfs traffic have problems.
I clicked on the links in the article, but I didn't find anything that said what part of the LDP made it non-free. The license seems pretty free to me.
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B.E.P. must have had you in mind. You can download the PDF file of the new bill here: http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/files/Bill_gl ossies_white.pdf
.gov domains? I mean, moneyfactory.com sounds like a scam site to me.
Does anyone else think that government sites should have
BTW, they still have green backs.
10 years ago (or there abouts)
VIDEO:
I had access to a 486-66 with an intel hardware video encoder. I could encode a 160x120 video at something like 15 FPS and if I used the hardware encoder it would come out really blocky, it was much smoother when I wrote it unencoded and used Indeo3 to compress it. I expeced in 10 years I would be able to smoothly watch full movies on the computer.
AUDIO:
I encoded several albums to mp2 (yup, before there was a free mp3 encoder) and burned them to a cd. I wanted all my cd's on a hard disk.
IMAGES:
I was scanning in images at a managable 75dpi (about 300x450pixels) In 10 years I wanted all my pictures on computer (by 1995, I was using PhotoCD's so I partially got my wish early)
INTERNET:
Wished everyone could have email. I think I was still dealing with gateways to FIDONet to email my dad. Wasn't sure if WWW or Gopher was better/more usable. Gopher had some nice stuff then (wiretap) there were also some useful services available via finger (weather and such) I thought in 10 years most people would at least have shell access to the internet (and a chunk would have SLIP) and have symetric T1 speeds.
Of course, those are just the things I came close on. I also expected more dualprocessors, that everyone would have 9Gig hard drives and 21 inch monitors (I can't believe still people buy smaller ones) and that everything would have spell checking.
Can you make the sound of a duiker in pain?
Didn't think so. Perhaps that was the clever part
I saw an ad for this in Ritz Camera (they are also Wolf camera I think) It is only in selected stores (and doesn't seem to be on the web site. I had the same thought you did, I haven't seen it, but I bet it uses some funky connector on a USB cable to unload the pictures and recharge it.
I just saw the ad and from it I was unsure if prints/cd was included or if that was another $11 and it also didn't give the resolution. Anyone try it?
look for it under the name linux-source-common-2.4....
also, linux-source-i386-2.4... and a bunch of other architectures as well.
letmesee, you want to be able to send a message, then at some undetermined time later you want to get a reply, and until then, not know if the person actually got it? That paradigm is now called e-mail, please update your paradigm dispatch table.
What happends if the person you want to talk to is also in invisible mode?
It seems that what you want is the benefits of IM (instant access to all your friends whenever you want) without the disadvantages (they have instant access to you) It seems a little unfair to me.
On the other hand, the Occupied status seems useful, 'don't bug me unless it is important'
even better, he then suggests that you get a different model airport (the extreme) for your first location, thus breaking his own rule.
Don't post the highest resolution version of an image to your website. Then, if someone rips you off, you can produce a higher resolution version, but they won't be able to, that should pretty much prove you took the original (IANAL though).
There generally isn't a need to post images larger than a megapixel, if someone wants to make a print, you can email them the full sized version.
I think the biggest thing holding them up is the lack of people to post-process the books, There are about 500 books ready for post-processing.
Another way of looking at it is that the software tools they use don't reduce the post-processing load, so better tools would also help the problem.
Yes, If a company had a physical presence in CA, then they have to charge CA sales tax when they ship to a CA address. Note that it doesn't have to be a retail shop, it could be HQ or an order processing center. I think pretty much all states follow this. The bill that CA is proposing just expands the definition of a "physical precence".
The tax gets paid to whatever locality the shipping address is in, no splitting up the tax among states, it is a very deterministic process. The same rules apply to mail order as well.
It can still be a complicated calculation because in CA, the state has sales tax, so does the county and possibly even the city, so you would have to take all that into account when figuring out how much the tax is.
The Nikon D100 will take your Nikon lenses and 'only' costs $1,700, which is still more than a good Nikon film body, but a whole lot less than $6k.
If you have manual lenses, you will lose TTL metering, and since the photosensor is not as large as a 35mm frame, you get 1.5x magnification (your 50mm lense suddenly becomes 75mm), but other than that, it is very nice, it doesn't have most of the problems you hear about with digital. The autofocus is fast, it can take 3 frames a second, all you Nikon lenses, some of the speedlights, 6 megapixels of glory!
Ace's hardware as an in-depth review as well, and it isn't slashdotted.
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=55000251
News.com just updated their article on the chip to state that "a possible problem with the 3GHz Pentium 4, discovered at the last minute, forced the company to delay the chip late on Sunday."
Joel's message boards are trying to build community, not just be simple forums. Notice that what many of the posters to slashdot have said is all these features make it easier to jump in, get the good stuff and get moving with life. Community on the other hand is about people sticking around and having a conversation.
More information about the villa and the Philodemus Project, including some pictures of the scrolls is at The Philodemus Project
I don't know about where you went to college, but no professor of mine would accept any encyclopedia as a reference. They were good for a general overview of the subject, but don't have the depth you need to write a paper.
> What would be nice in addition to a moderation
> system would be a bio from the author or place
> where the article originated
I would like to here your proposal for a moderation system, that seems to imply competing articles, a concept that wikipedia doesn't have. Further, attached to each article is the entire edit history of the document and a link to all the (non-anonymous) authors who have worked on it. If those authors have provided a bio (few have) you can get to it.
> I hate the idea of anyone just editing the
> content. Bad bad bad! Beyond bad. This could
> kill it.
I think the opposite is true. The only way it got to 100,000 articles is that anyone can edit it. If what you suggest is true, it would have died sometime in the past two years. What could kill it is removing the ability for everyone to edit it.
I got one of these after the last slashdot story on them, we had a blast playing with them at the office, but they don't keep your attention that long. On the plus side, they're neat to look at and the battery charge lasted longer than I expected, but they aren't very fast and won't run on most carpets.
My cat,however, has not got tired of it yet, he will smack it around quite a bit.
I had to do something similar when trying to convince a company that offsite backups were important. Backup, burn the place down... Maybe I shouldn't be telling you this :)
Because most of the 'really well known' and yet APPROPRIATE standards bodies require you to be a member to submit or make changes to a proposed spec and it costs money to be a member.
You could try the software suspend patches. Allows any hardware to suspend without hardware support (so it will work on desktops too) I think it does some nice stuff to try and minimize the suspend image (like swapping all processes out first) but don't know if it is stable. The homepage is Software Suspend
.
You really don't remember AMD before that? Not their 486-120 (faster than Intel's fastest 486-100) or their 386-40 (to Intel's 386-33) or there 286-16 (and even 20 I believe).
All those examples pretty much came after Intel moved to a better technology and stopped developing the older generation, much like the K6-III coming out long past when it could be a real player (because of the weak floating point).
The reason why it is 'stable enough' for desktop use
is not because crashes are more acceptable, but because desktops don't usually have the load characteristics that Linux has trouble with. On the desktop, my system never crashes, but I have plenty of free swap space and there are usually only 1 or 2 programs active.
On a server, you are often using a much larger % of memory, may have dozens or hundreds of short lived processes all trying to access the same resources at the same time (disk, network).
That is why you see people posting that their DNS server doesn't crash, but people who are serving tons of http or nfs traffic have problems.
They aren't a contractor, they are fully funded and run by the CIA. I think they are also the venture capital arm of the CIA as well.
I clicked on the links in the article, but I didn't find anything that said what part of the LDP made it non-free. The license seems pretty free to me.