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Digital 35mm SLRs?
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Allow me!
Manual exposure is the M setting on the top dial. It's right next to Av (aperture priority) and Tv (shutter priority). M is the only setting which allows you to manually dial down the flash.
If you want manual focus, press the tulip/MF button until MF appears on the LCD screen, and then focus with left and right arrows.
The digicam is only cheaper if you are willing to sacrifice the prints. Around these parts at least a digital print costs twice as much as a print from a negative, which almost offsets the cost of film and processing.
As for your final point, I would have said "If you wait a year, you have another year's worth of negatives to scan".
I have an eMac 800 with 1GB RAM, and Warcraft III is only just OK single player... if you try to play against multiple human opponents it will lag badly during battle (just when you need to select your hero you can't!).
I have seen the same effect with a Duron or Athlon systems (Duron 900, Athlon 1000/133), so I suspect it's just that the game needs more CPU power.
When you say excellent performance, do you mean single player, or multi player? If multi player, how did you achieve this???
I agree that it's pretty darn good, but it's not 99% for me.
I use Mail.app in conjunction with hotwayd to read my hotmail account. Before doing this, my hotmail account was virtually unusable, requiring me to manually delete up to 50 SPAM messages every few days. Mail.app has reduced that to maybe 5 or 6 over the same timeframe, so for me it's around 90% with very few false positives (around 1% historically, which I expect to tend towards 0%).
Based on the random looking stuff in SPAM messages, spammers are probably already trying to tune their pitch to get around our Bayesian (or Grahamian) filters, and it is probably possible to fool the current batch - so the war continues.
Re:Everybody wants to work.. Nah nah, not me
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Kiln People
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Your comments are all addressed in the book! One character is unable to reliably create dittos which do what she wants... and one of the main character's dittos decides not to work and just goof off for the day:)
I liked the book, and thought that this review was a bit harsh (I wanted more, not less!)
Re:This is like the Randal Schwarz Case...
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McOwen Case Settled
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Actually I agree about the lack of common sense shown by the courts, but I don't agree that stealing cycles is not the same as embezzling company funds. If the power bill went up by $1 per week while the client was running, isn't that the same as stealing $1 per week from the petty cash tin?
How would you advocate treating the parking attendant who syphons a litre of fuel from every car he parks?
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No tangible damage? Busy CPU's use more power than idle CPU's (even on brain-damaged OS's which don't HALT on idle)... this leads to more load on the air-con... and that doesn't even take into account the cost of network traffic. There was a cost incurred due to the unauthorized action, and a cost to rectify the action. Even if you don't agree with their estimated damage bill, there was a cost. If it had been my computer lab, I would have been livid.
At least until they all start, it's easy enough to just ignore sites which do this (and possibly even send a polite note to the webmaster explaining why).
The compatibility problems I heard about were with early Athlon systems: not with the CPU itself though, all they were either due to using a non-certified power supply, or were driver issues.
My advice to people with AMD instability problems is to flash the BIOS to the latest revision, and download new motherboard drivers (and if that doesn't help, check that the power supply is up to the job).
I don't see myself ever buying a DVD. To start with, I don't want to subsidise the MPAA's stupidity, and apart from that the quality doesn't seem that great.
Is it just me, or does a new VHS tape on a 6-head VCR seem just as good as DVD but without the MPEG artifacts?
Now if I didn't care about artifacts I'd probably go for DIVX encoded movies on CD-ROM:)
I'm not a Fry's shopper, but I would recommend making your own converter: two inline sockets, a short piece of two-ply wire, a piece of heat-shrink rubber insulator... $A3 and a quick spot of soldering later (and a hair dryer for the shrinky insulation) and problem solved. That's what I did (although I also put in a regulator).
There was a case in Sydney, Australia a few years ago where a stoned guy murdered two little girls at the beach after they returned his wallet, and once he sobered up had no idea why he'd done it, since "they seemed like nice kids". Apart from that all I've heard of is the stories from Indonesia/Malaysia early this century where the police kept long poles with nooses to capture men who ran amok. As far as I know, PCP usage wasn't extensive in the area at the time... but perhaps the populace had some local equivalent (magic mushrooms anyone?). I don't know if the Sydney murderer used PCP or not.
Anyway, like I said, even in a largely stoned population you're still more likely to be killed by a drunk driver or someone who is not under the influence of THC, so a rare side effect is not a good reason to ban it (particularly since alcohol induced rages are much more common, and alcohol isn't banned).
>> Legalize marajuana? It may be IMMORAL to smoke it and stupid even, but it does not hurt society? This is an example of the government stepping in when it should not.
Actually there is one possible bad consequence of widespread marijuana/hash smoking... a few people are prone to "running amok": the drug induces some sort of psychosis causing them to murder anyone they can reach, until subdued. Later they can offer no explanation for why they flipped.
Now I realise that being killed by a genuine whacko, or a murderer who is sane and not chemically enhanced, or a drunk driver is much more likely, but I'm still surprised that people never mention running amok as a negative consequence of marijuana smoking. The term originated in the Malayan peninsula, at a time when perhaps the majority of the population spent a large proportion of their time stoned.
I have an AGP G200, and I can report that it is REALLY slow - less than 20fps in Q3 at any resolution with an AMD K6/2 450 + FIC motherboard + 64Mb DIMM + Seagate 20Gb drive. Q2 also generally gets less than 20fps for Crusher/Massive, unless you run at 400x300.
In comparison, a Voodoo II or Voodoo 3 or Banshee get over 40fps on the same hardware with the same settings (and costs less than the G200).
If you have a REALLY grunty system (PIII/900, Athlon/900), perhaps a G400 would be a better move, otherwise I suggest gritting you teeth and sticking with the TNT2, unless a 3dfx based solution will do (I'm not entirely sure how they go for non-games OpenGL applications, but for games on low-end systems they're great value).
Even my old Riva 128 ran faster than the G200 (although admittedly the image quality is really poor). I'm surprised that there's less driver support for the TNT2 than the Riva128!
I am grown up, I pay for what I want, and I don't steal other people's property... I just want to watch the DVD's (which I paid for) on my favourite OS.
err... OK, I'll admit it... I gave in and bought one (not for myself, for a friend who had extremely light usage and couldn't justify twice the price for a non-winmodem).
Has everyone else done this too?
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As somebody who was using minix around the time linus wrote linux (and posted the original message to comp.os.minix), gcc and friends were nice, but I don't think their absence would have stopped linus.
There were other compilers (for instance, the one shipped with minix (binary only, but since when has that stopped us)). I think I remember lcc being available around then too.
Having no BSD utilities and no GNU utilities would have been far worse... so whereas I don't agree with your assertion that rms's work was an essential prerequisite for linux, it was (and is) a great achievement... three cheers for rms.
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Allow me!
Manual exposure is the M setting on the top dial. It's right next to Av (aperture priority) and Tv (shutter priority). M is the only setting which allows you to manually dial down the flash.
If you want manual focus, press the tulip/MF button until MF appears on the LCD screen, and then focus with left and right arrows.
I think that this is the best reason to buy digital. .. but you forgot to mention how much fun little digicams are!
I take it you haven't seen Don Ellis' work then?
http://www.kleptography.com/s-gallery-peak.htm
The digicam is only cheaper if you are willing to sacrifice the prints. Around these parts at least a digital print costs twice as much as a print from a negative, which almost offsets the cost of film and processing.
As for your final point, I would have said "If you wait a year, you have another year's worth of negatives to scan".
Hmm... tasty looking hook!
I have an eMac 800 with 1GB RAM, and Warcraft III is only just OK single player... if you try to play against multiple human opponents it will lag badly during battle (just when you need to select your hero you can't!).
I have seen the same effect with a Duron or Athlon systems (Duron 900, Athlon 1000/133), so I suspect it's just that the game needs more CPU power.
When you say excellent performance, do you mean single player, or multi player? If multi player, how did you achieve this???
I agree that it's pretty darn good, but it's not 99% for me.
I use Mail.app in conjunction with hotwayd to read my hotmail account. Before doing this, my hotmail account was virtually unusable, requiring me to manually delete up to 50 SPAM messages every few days. Mail.app has reduced that to maybe 5 or 6 over the same timeframe, so for me it's around 90% with very few false positives (around 1% historically, which I expect to tend towards 0%).
Based on the random looking stuff in SPAM messages, spammers are probably already trying to tune their pitch to get around our Bayesian (or Grahamian) filters, and it is probably possible to fool the current batch - so the war continues.
Your comments are all addressed in the book! One character is unable to reliably create dittos which do what she wants... and one of the main character's dittos decides not to work and just goof off for the day :)
I liked the book, and thought that this review was a bit harsh (I wanted more, not less!)
How would you advocate treating the parking attendant who syphons a litre of fuel from every car he parks?
Save your support for someone who deserves it.
At least until they all start, it's easy enough to just ignore sites which do this (and possibly even send a polite note to the webmaster explaining why).
Did you happen to notice the date on that page? (April '98... possibly the 1st of April 1998?)
The compatibility problems I heard about were with early Athlon systems: not with the CPU itself though, all they were either due to using a non-certified power supply, or were driver issues.
My advice to people with AMD instability problems is to flash the BIOS to the latest revision, and download new motherboard drivers (and if that doesn't help, check that the power supply is up to the job).
I don't see myself ever buying a DVD. To start with, I don't want to subsidise the MPAA's stupidity, and apart from that the quality doesn't seem that great.
:)
Is it just me, or does a new VHS tape on a 6-head VCR seem just as good as DVD but without the MPEG artifacts?
Now if I didn't care about artifacts I'd probably go for DIVX encoded movies on CD-ROM
I'm not a Fry's shopper, but I would recommend making your own converter: two inline sockets, a short piece of two-ply wire, a piece of heat-shrink rubber insulator... $A3 and a quick spot of soldering later (and a hair dryer for the shrinky insulation) and problem solved. That's what I did (although I also put in a regulator).
Only 1 in 5 posts marked Troll actually deserve the title (see the jargon file entry for troll at www.tuxedo.org for a good definition).
The other 4 posts deserve Redundant, Off-Topic, or Flame-bait instead.
Perhaps you should ask any six year old. Just because they say the plural is "lego" doesn't make it so.
What do you think of Objective C?
There was a case in Sydney, Australia a few years ago where a stoned guy murdered two little girls at the beach after they returned his wallet, and once he sobered up had no idea why he'd done it, since "they seemed like nice kids". Apart from that all I've heard of is the stories from Indonesia/Malaysia early this century where the police kept long poles with nooses to capture men who ran amok. As far as I know, PCP usage wasn't extensive in the area at the time... but perhaps the populace had some local equivalent (magic mushrooms anyone?). I don't know if the Sydney murderer used PCP or not.
Anyway, like I said, even in a largely stoned population you're still more likely to be killed by a drunk driver or someone who is not under the influence of THC, so a rare side effect is not a good reason to ban it (particularly since alcohol induced rages are much more common, and alcohol isn't banned).
>> Legalize marajuana? It may be IMMORAL to smoke it and stupid even, but it does not hurt society? This is an example of the government stepping in when it should not.
Actually there is one possible bad consequence of widespread marijuana/hash smoking... a few people are prone to "running amok": the drug induces some sort of psychosis causing them to murder anyone they can reach, until subdued. Later they can offer no explanation for why they flipped.
Now I realise that being killed by a genuine whacko, or a murderer who is sane and not chemically enhanced, or a drunk driver is much more likely, but I'm still surprised that people never mention running amok as a negative consequence of marijuana smoking. The term originated in the Malayan peninsula, at a time when perhaps the majority of the population spent a large proportion of their time stoned.
I have an AGP G200, and I can report that it is REALLY slow - less than 20fps in Q3 at any resolution with an AMD K6/2 450 + FIC motherboard + 64Mb DIMM + Seagate 20Gb drive. Q2 also generally gets less than 20fps for Crusher/Massive, unless you run at 400x300.
In comparison, a Voodoo II or Voodoo 3 or Banshee get over 40fps on the same hardware with the same settings (and costs less than the G200).
If you have a REALLY grunty system (PIII/900, Athlon/900), perhaps a G400 would be a better move, otherwise I suggest gritting you teeth and sticking with the TNT2, unless a 3dfx based solution will do (I'm not entirely sure how they go for non-games OpenGL applications, but for games on low-end systems they're great value).
Even my old Riva 128 ran faster than the G200 (although admittedly the image quality is really poor). I'm surprised that there's less driver support for the TNT2 than the Riva128!
I am grown up, I pay for what I want, and I don't steal other people's property... I just want to watch the DVD's (which I paid for) on my favourite OS.
err... OK, I'll admit it... I gave in and bought one (not for myself, for a friend who had extremely light usage and couldn't justify twice the price for a non-winmodem).
Has everyone else done this too?
As somebody who was using minix around the time linus wrote linux (and posted the original message to comp.os.minix), gcc and friends were nice, but I don't think their absence would have stopped linus.
There were other compilers (for instance, the one shipped with minix (binary only, but since when has that stopped us)). I think I remember lcc being available around then too.
Having no BSD utilities and no GNU utilities would have been far worse... so whereas I don't agree with your assertion that rms's work was an essential prerequisite for linux, it was (and is) a great achievement... three cheers for rms.
You missed Linux/Debian on M68K (which I have) and MIPS (which I don't). Debian for VAX anyone?