Digital is cheaper if you never intend to print anything.
I'm not quite sure the resale value of any digital camera will hold over the say 5 to 10 years, whereas that second-hand 35mm or medium format camera from 30-40 years ago probably won't depreciate any further so long they are kept functional.
Most digital cameras are better at shooting macro than SLR, but the smaller sensor area means you can't get as shallow a depth of view with the lens wide open, and the digital "grain" isn't as nice as film. Also getting anything wider than 28mm is hard with digital.
So long you can handle the weight, the C330 I have isn't exactly light, but yes the scans even off a humber 1200dpi scanner beats any digital camera around.
The upside is 120 film is piece of cake to work with in a darkroom than 35mm, rolling the damn thing onto the spool always take ages and no small amount of swearing.
How else can your average person afford a 250+HP mid-engined sports car, sure second-hand Elise is getting cheaper now but they are overkill for the average driver.
So why would the range be a problem? A car like that is not meant for long distance travel anyway - a couple of hours on bendy roads can be fun, but extended driving in something without power-steering is exhausting.
Even if every outsider try their best to avoid supplanting their religions belief system, all the other ideas they acquire through contact will still lead them to re-evaluate their belief.
BTW how do you make the distinction between "primitive people" and the other "less primitive people" and know whom to leave alone? You know most of say India is pretty primitive by Western standards, so it's just wrong to introduce them to such alien and unnatural things like computers and programming languages.
People have the right to learn from others, just because a group of them has been practically cut off from the rest of the world for centuries doesn't mean that isolation should be enforced.
It's the Amazons, 30+ temperature most of time, if they don't wear shorts and T-shirts what are they going to wear? A tweed suit?
Oh yeah, we all know Americans absolutely dominate the consumer electronics market, and the electric keyboard industry as well, so here's a word for you - Yamaha
I've had a spare computer hooked up to my TV for a while, the image quality is good enough for the purpose, I suspect those 100Hz dual scan TV's will probably provide a much more readable display.
The main thing is make sure the sound card doesn't put out some massive transients when the computer powers up - because sooner or later you'd somehow end up with amp up at high volume and get that potentially speaker damaging pop when you turn on the computer. That or use a digital link for the audio signal.
But the problem is, most MP3's downloaded off the net sound rather crappy.
I'm guessing they are probably the helium filled version? Otherwise someone need to be strapped to a chair and watch the documentary on the Hindenburg for a week or so...
DHCP can be handy sometimes - I move my notebook up and down stairs alot (in front of the TV in the living room or in the bedroom). Since I haven't got an extra hub/switch and the network upstairs is on a different network (guarding my Win98/Linux boxes from my flatmates) I run DHCP to simplify things.
What you can do is run a caching DNS server, and have the firewall block off all outgoing DNS packets not from the internal DNS box.
You can program DSP's in C, FPGA programming is the one that is different from writing software because you'd actually create gates and connections on the chip itself.
All the theoretical stuff about signal processing is much harder than actually writing the code, so even if you do it in a nice and easy programming language the amount of effort required will not be reduced by much.
Well a sound card is about as bad a Digital/Analogue interface as you can get - most can't even hold a flat frequency response over the basic 20-20k audio band, and 44kHz sampling rate isn't exactly useful for radio frequency stuff.
Good quality ADC's are still pretty expensive, and you can either pay $$$ for a PC interface card or somehow build one yourself.
While it might be cool to get your computer to do all sorts of signal processing stuff, a DSP is just going to do it better no matter what. Do we really need 60W CPUs being used for modulating/demodulating signals?
I wonder why everyone is comparing V8s to Civics (what about all those FXGT fans?:) - there are plenty of Japanese cars that are much faster anyway.
Skyline GT-R would be a nice comparison, but the RWD single turbo versions are plenty fast anyway...
Not to mention the WRX's, the EVO's etc etc, wonder why no US company make 4WD performance cars?
BTW here in New Zealand you can pick up a late model used twin-turbo GTO or equivalent speed ticket magnets for about $16000NZ ($7000 US), and if you want new cars you can go to the Nissan dealer and place an order for a GT-R (assuming you can afford it), not to mention WRX's been on sale for years. Saw an Mazda TV ad showing a MX-5, and RX-7 then the picture of the new RX, so guess that will be on sale here as well. US cars just aren't price competitive, apart from Ford.
A few days ago I was walking my dog when a modified WRX zipped past driven by a 50-year old lady, those crazy grannies...
Well it may end up like the new airport project a few years back (I like the old airport better, because all the planes have to take a nice sharp 90 degree turn just before landing) - buggy as hell.
Hold on a minute there, the Hong Kong government probably need to have all major policy changes okayed by the people higher up in China, but some of the other countries you mentioned have been a proper democracy for quite a while now. If you want examples of free market + fascism look no further than Singapore.
Someone mentioned that the smart card can be tempered with to make slipping into the country easier - the thing is the old ID card have been used for getting in and out of HK for ages and usually customs people just swipe it and you're through. When I paid my parents a visit in HK a few years ago I used the my old HK ID card (the queue for HK ID holders was a lot shorter than the one for the foreign passports) with a kiddie photo of me and the person at the airport let me through without so much as a second look.
Actually a car's "UI" is more than just the position of the seat, steering wheel and peddles - how the car brakes, corner, shifts can be considered part of the user interface. I doubt anyone will instantly adjust from driving a front wheel drive sedan to say a MR2 with on/off clutch and short throw shifter - hill starts will suddenly become interesting and you just try lifting off the accelerator in the middle of a curve:)
I suppose coming from a Mac designer's perspective anything more than 1 button on the mouse is considered a bad thing.... nevermind the fact that having a right click context menu is far superior and productive (and the scroll wheel is useful as well).
The whole "no customisation" argument as presented in the article assumes that everyone using a computer is a complete idiot, and is in fact nothing more than an expendable cubicle droid with a computer needing to be reassigned to a replacement at a moment's notice. I'm sure a fair proportion of computers in the world aren't used in such a way, and if some company do work to such dehumanising methods they can just disable customisation.
Plus there are plenty of people who used both Macs and PC's and counting the transition from Win 3.x to 9x to XP would have no problem telling what the icons on the top right mean. Really the truly incompetant won't be able to use a computer properly no matter what interface you give them (unless you drop pretty much all functionalities from the applications)
Well, if he's doing all the card/drive mounting points by hand then doing them all with precision - I'd imagine if you spend a few hundred dollars on material you'd probably want everything to fit together perfectly instead of ending up with the kind of "tolerance" found in those cheap and nasty sheet metal cases.
BTW I kinda remember there was some new about fertilising an egg with DNA extracted from a normal cell. Wonder how long before vats are the "normal" way of making babies...
Mass hysteria happen so long people are capable of communicating and influencing each other, how TV can be singled out from books, radio, newspaper etc can only be explained by misguided elitism (and really there is nothing to be proud of not watching TV, I wonder if similar sentiments were voiced back in the radio days).
I leave my TV on pretty much all the time - so that any fraction of free time during web surfing/programming will hopefully be filled up by whatever is on.
I guess another reason UT is popular is the hours and hour of fun you can have playing CTF picking a nice high place with a sniper rifle and get that one-shot one-kill perfect.
One of the major cause of the deterioration of games is everything is geared for network games where things need to happen fast. Even strategy games like Call to Power II has basically become an exercise in swarming your enemy with 12-unit archers. I hope they don't make Master of Orion III (whenever it will come out, if it does) that suckful - MOO 2 network play was slow but it at least required actual strategy (once you go beyond the 2-shot missle boat phase).
Well, I suppose that would have been feasible back in the days of 10MHz system bus..... stretching 32/64-bit wide PCI bus at 33/66MHz across a few boxes might pose some problems I assume.....
I think I've seen the design you're talking in a Graphis book, it's a whole row of small upright boxes the size of books and you can add expansion boxes.
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Especially people who would rather sift through boring government documents instead of surfing porn like a normal person.
To find some proof of the WMD's what were yet to be found in all those bureaucratic papers.
Digital is cheaper if you never intend to print anything.
I'm not quite sure the resale value of any digital camera will hold over the say 5 to 10 years, whereas that second-hand 35mm or medium format camera from 30-40 years ago probably won't depreciate any further so long they are kept functional.
Most digital cameras are better at shooting macro than SLR, but the smaller sensor area means you can't get as shallow a depth of view with the lens wide open, and the digital "grain" isn't as nice as film. Also getting anything wider than 28mm is hard with digital.
So long you can handle the weight, the C330 I have isn't exactly light, but yes the scans even off a humber 1200dpi scanner beats any digital camera around.
The upside is 120 film is piece of cake to work with in a darkroom than 35mm, rolling the damn thing onto the spool always take ages and no small amount of swearing.
How else can your average person afford a 250+HP mid-engined sports car, sure second-hand Elise is getting cheaper now but they are overkill for the average driver.
So why would the range be a problem? A car like that is not meant for long distance travel anyway - a couple of hours on bendy roads can be fun, but extended driving in something without power-steering is exhausting.
Even if every outsider try their best to avoid supplanting their religions belief system, all the other ideas they acquire through contact will still lead them to re-evaluate their belief.
BTW how do you make the distinction between "primitive people" and the other "less primitive people" and know whom to leave alone? You know most of say India is pretty primitive by Western standards, so it's just wrong to introduce them to such alien and unnatural things like computers and programming languages.
People have the right to learn from others, just because a group of them has been practically cut off from the rest of the world for centuries doesn't mean that isolation should be enforced.
It's the Amazons, 30+ temperature most of time, if they don't wear shorts and T-shirts what are they going to wear? A tweed suit?
Oh yeah, we all know Americans absolutely dominate the consumer electronics market, and the electric keyboard industry as well, so here's a word for you - Yamaha
I've had a spare computer hooked up to my TV for a while, the image quality is good enough for the purpose, I suspect those 100Hz dual scan TV's will probably provide a much more readable display.
The main thing is make sure the sound card doesn't put out some massive transients when the computer powers up - because sooner or later you'd somehow end up with amp up at high volume and get that potentially speaker damaging pop when you turn on the computer. That or use a digital link for the audio signal.
But the problem is, most MP3's downloaded off the net sound rather crappy.
I'm guessing they are probably the helium filled version? Otherwise someone need to be strapped to a chair and watch the documentary on the Hindenburg for a week or so...
DHCP can be handy sometimes - I move my notebook up and down stairs alot (in front of the TV in the living room or in the bedroom). Since I haven't got an extra hub/switch and the network upstairs is on a different network (guarding my Win98/Linux boxes from my flatmates) I run DHCP to simplify things.
What you can do is run a caching DNS server, and have the firewall block off all outgoing DNS packets not from the internal DNS box.
You can program DSP's in C, FPGA programming is the one that is different from writing software because you'd actually create gates and connections on the chip itself.
All the theoretical stuff about signal processing is much harder than actually writing the code, so even if you do it in a nice and easy programming language the amount of effort required will not be reduced by much.
Well a sound card is about as bad a Digital/Analogue interface as you can get - most can't even hold a flat frequency response over the basic 20-20k audio band, and 44kHz sampling rate isn't exactly useful for radio frequency stuff.
Good quality ADC's are still pretty expensive, and you can either pay $$$ for a PC interface card or somehow build one yourself.
While it might be cool to get your computer to do all sorts of signal processing stuff, a DSP is just going to do it better no matter what. Do we really need 60W CPUs being used for modulating/demodulating signals?
I wonder why everyone is comparing V8s to Civics (what about all those FXGT fans? :) - there are plenty of Japanese cars that are much faster anyway.
Skyline GT-R would be a nice comparison, but the RWD single turbo versions are plenty fast anyway...
Not to mention the WRX's, the EVO's etc etc, wonder why no US company make 4WD performance cars?
BTW here in New Zealand you can pick up a late model used twin-turbo GTO or equivalent speed ticket magnets for about $16000NZ ($7000 US), and if you want new cars you can go to the Nissan dealer and place an order for a GT-R (assuming you can afford it), not to mention WRX's been on sale for years. Saw an Mazda TV ad showing a MX-5, and RX-7 then the picture of the new RX, so guess that will be on sale here as well. US cars just aren't price competitive, apart from Ford.
A few days ago I was walking my dog when a modified WRX zipped past driven by a 50-year old lady, those crazy grannies...
Well it may end up like the new airport project a few years back (I like the old airport better, because all the planes have to take a nice sharp 90 degree turn just before landing) - buggy as hell.
Hold on a minute there, the Hong Kong government probably need to have all major policy changes okayed by the people higher up in China, but some of the other countries you mentioned have been a proper democracy for quite a while now. If you want examples of free market + fascism look no further than Singapore.
Someone mentioned that the smart card can be tempered with to make slipping into the country easier - the thing is the old ID card have been used for getting in and out of HK for ages and usually customs people just swipe it and you're through. When I paid my parents a visit in HK a few years ago I used the my old HK ID card (the queue for HK ID holders was a lot shorter than the one for the foreign passports) with a kiddie photo of me and the person at the airport let me through without so much as a second look.
Actually a car's "UI" is more than just the position of the seat, steering wheel and peddles - how the car brakes, corner, shifts can be considered part of the user interface. I doubt anyone will instantly adjust from driving a front wheel drive sedan to say a MR2 with on/off clutch and short throw shifter - hill starts will suddenly become interesting and you just try lifting off the accelerator in the middle of a curve :)
I suppose coming from a Mac designer's perspective anything more than 1 button on the mouse is considered a bad thing.... nevermind the fact that having a right click context menu is far superior and productive (and the scroll wheel is useful as well).
The whole "no customisation" argument as presented in the article assumes that everyone using a computer is a complete idiot, and is in fact nothing more than an expendable cubicle droid with a computer needing to be reassigned to a replacement at a moment's notice. I'm sure a fair proportion of computers in the world aren't used in such a way, and if some company do work to such dehumanising methods they can just disable customisation.
Plus there are plenty of people who used both Macs and PC's and counting the transition from Win 3.x to 9x to XP would have no problem telling what the icons on the top right mean. Really the truly incompetant won't be able to use a computer properly no matter what interface you give them (unless you drop pretty much all functionalities from the applications)
Well, if he's doing all the card/drive mounting points by hand then doing them all with precision - I'd imagine if you spend a few hundred dollars on material you'd probably want everything to fit together perfectly instead of ending up with the kind of "tolerance" found in those cheap and nasty sheet metal cases.
Generically Engineered Pleasure Units?
BTW I kinda remember there was some new about fertilising an egg with DNA extracted from a normal cell. Wonder how long before vats are the "normal" way of making babies...
Mass hysteria happen so long people are capable of communicating and influencing each other, how TV can be singled out from books, radio, newspaper etc can only be explained by misguided elitism (and really there is nothing to be proud of not watching TV, I wonder if similar sentiments were voiced back in the radio days).
I leave my TV on pretty much all the time - so that any fraction of free time during web surfing/programming will hopefully be filled up by whatever is on.
I guess another reason UT is popular is the hours and hour of fun you can have playing CTF picking a nice high place with a sniper rifle and get that one-shot one-kill perfect.
One of the major cause of the deterioration of games is everything is geared for network games where things need to happen fast. Even strategy games like Call to Power II has basically become an exercise in swarming your enemy with 12-unit archers. I hope they don't make Master of Orion III (whenever it will come out, if it does) that suckful - MOO 2 network play was slow but it at least required actual strategy (once you go beyond the 2-shot missle boat phase).
If I remember right a P133 can decode mp3 at about 25% CPU usage, so there is quite a bit of room for extra decoding complexity.
Well, I suppose that would have been feasible back in the days of 10MHz system bus..... stretching 32/64-bit wide PCI bus at 33/66MHz across a few boxes might pose some problems I assume.....
I think I've seen the design you're talking in a Graphis book, it's a whole row of small upright boxes the size of books and you can add expansion boxes.