That is becoming an issue, though the aperture also fits into this. With an APS-C sized sensor (the most common in D-SLRs) a 12MP camera starts to hit this limit around F11. Having a larger sensor helps in this case.
None of the oil companies want to build any new refineries when they can just expand the capacity of their existing refineries. There's no waiting list of oil companies asking for permits to build new refineries.
It's extremely expensive to build a new refinery, much more so than just expanding or upgrading existing ones.
This is true. I drive one. I have never had a problem going up a steep grade, though I can't take it fast for a long period of time. Torque is definitely not a problem with this car, and I have no problem carrying four large adults comfortably in it.
Getting 45MPG long-term average is just icing on the cake. It wasn't that much more expensive than a similar non-hybrid car and when I bought it two years ago I knew gas was going to get expensive, especially with China and India competing for oil.
It's not the greatest car in snow, but it never snows where I live and I only take it up to the snow once or twice a year. Storage capacity is also pretty decent. I think in terms of leg room, etc. it's pretty close to the Camery.
Actually according to the 1st commandment it is acceptable. It says basically "Thou shalt have no other gods before me.", meaning that you can worship other gods, but that he is the formost or main god and any others are lesser gods. Many people disregard the "before me." but it is there.
Shortly before the California primary I watched a couple of video interviews at Google with both Hillary and Obama. At the time I was still debating between the two. This video cinched it for me and showed that Obama clearly understands technology.
If you think John McCain will reign in spending and return to fiscal discipline think again. An interesting article studies his economic plan and shows how disastrous it is and how it would create the largest deficit since WWII. His answer is to lower or eliminate a lot of taxes and eliminate all pork (roughly $18B). Unfortunately, the amount of pork is far less than the amount of taxes he would lower. He's pretty clueless and is really no different than Bush. Plus, this idiot would likely get us into a war with Iran and possibly more due to his explosive temper, flushing a lot more money (and lives) down the drain.
McCain is actually far closer to Bush and basically just tries to extend Bush's disastrous fiscal policies.
The KDE developers have stated that KDE 4.0 is more of a technology preview. A lot of functionality is still missing and is due to be added in the upcoming KDE 4.1 due out in July. As a long-time KDE user I'm sticking with 3.5.9 until this is resolved. Though KDE 4.0 looks a lot nicer, the missing functionality kills it for me. And when I hear people say that they should remove functionality because 90% of the users don't use it just makes life difficult for the 10% who do. I make heavy use of some of the less common options. I can't even use Compiz because some custom keyboard shortcuts I've added won't work in Compiz (i.e. I map Ctrl+Alt+F to toggle raising and lowering a window) since I often have 20 or more applications open at any given time. I really hope they keep the customizability and hope they just move the more advanced, rarely used options into an advanced tab or something.
A ton of the patents are also held by ReplayTV, which came out just before Tivo. Replay was recently purchased by Direct TV, which is an interesting move since Replay and Tivo cross licensed their patents since neither one could produce a box without infringing on the other's patents.
I also like the interface on my Replay boxes, unfortunately the company stopped making their set-top boxes and never addressed HD, but the features were great (and even their early models had the 8 second skip back and 30 second skip forward).
I have a friend with the Dish PVR and the software on it was quite nice.
When I get around to upgrading everything to HD I'm not sure what I'll do about a DVR. Sadly none of them will match some of my favorite features of my current one (i.e. automatic commercial skipping). Plus, I want one where I can download the content onto my PC like I can with my current one.
I'd set up Myth TV in an instant, but as far as I know it will not record any of the encrypted shows (i.e. sci-fi channel) on cable.
I got a GPS unit that connects to my camera. I use it to keep track of my photos by embedding the location inside the EXIF information in the photo. That way if I lose it, I know where to go to find it again. Oh, wait. Nevermind. Though it is useful for geocaching.
Actually we see yellow, green and blue. We perceive red by the yellow cone being active in the absense of green. Pure blue appears as a deep violet (i.e. a blacklight). Some women have two different yellow receptors (which are on the X chromosome) and there is some variance between people for yellow.
Actually people are least sensitive to red and blue. We have far fewer blue receptors than green and yellow receptors (we don't have red receptors). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision.
Wikipedia has a good article describing this and the fact that our eyes are actually sensitive to blue, green and greenish/yellow. Red is what you see when the greenish yellow receptor is active but not the green, hence why we aren't all that sensitive to red light but very sensitive to yellow and green. Similarly if only the blue receptor is active you see a deep violet like what you get from a black light.
As far as monitors go, it's often easier on the eyes if you lower the color temperature to 6500K. It will look yellow at first but your eyes will adjust.
I tried using the integrated nVidia sound on my motherboard. Sadly, the Linux ALSA drivers did not support the mixing of multiple audio sources to the nVidia sound integrated into my motherboard. I.e. only one application at a time could output audio. I ended up just purchasing a Creative Audigy card and from then on everything worked perfectly.
With Creative's behavior today I'd avoid them if possible.
Having used external drives with USB and Firewire 400, I try and use Firewire whenever possible. With USB I saw a lot of strange problems with Linux whenever I tried working with multiple files simultaneously, often with the drive just hanging. With Firewire I had no such problems. Plus, even though theoretically USB is faster than Firewire 400, I always get better performance with lower CPU overhead using Firewire.
My motherboard came with eSata, but the connector for some reason is incompatible with the eSata cables I bought. I need to replace the eSata adapter and try eSata as well.
Gimp does not handle more than 8 bits per color. That renders it useless for my purposes since I need at least 12 when doing operations like shadow recovery of raw image files from my camera. I use this feature all the time.
Besides that, the user interface is too horrible for me to use for my applications... quickly editing hundreds of photos with the Gimp would be an absolute nightmare. I go through this process of editing dozens or hundreds of photos at least once a month.
Until they fix these two issues I won't use it. They've been talking about fixing the first one for ages.
Bibble easily fills both of these requirements, plus a bunch of other features that are missing in Gimp. Most of the features I use are only one or two clicks away. I find the workflow environment invaluable. Plus, it works extremely well with the raw output from my camera at both 12 and 14 bits per color.
McCain may not follow Pat Robertson, but his spiritual advisor Rod Parsley may be as bad or worse. After all, he advocates war against Muslims, prosecuting adulterers and more. Oh, but he's a conservative, so I guess this is acceptable?
I guess because he's a republican conservative that this type of thing is OK or expected, but when a democratic candidate goes to a church where the ministor basically says violence begets violence it's much worse, especially when it's taken out of context.
I started with KDE back in 1999 since we were using Sun workstations and CDE was unusable. I managed to compile KDE 1.2 and added a Solaris sound driver to ARTS and have been using it ever since. I have tried Gnome on a number of occasions, but I always go back to KDE since it always feels like my hands are tied behind my back with Gnome. Yes, KDE is cluttered (much better in 4.0), but I often use a lot of that "clutter". There are a lot more menu options, but I've frequently found them useful.
Some things in Gnome I absolutely detest, like their file dialogs. The KDE file dialogs are a lot more friendly and powerful, and I've found that the integration seems better. They're also consistent across applications and not limited to just local files, but http, ftp, fish, etc.
When it comes to things like burning CDs or DVDs, I have yet to find anything that comes close to k3b, or for music, Amarok.
I still use Thunderbird for email due to some issues Kmail has with IMAP, but I'll switch in an instant once those are fixed. For the web, I have found that Firefox has slowly adopted a number of features I've been using for a long time in Konqueror. Both Firefox and Thunderbird have some nasty issues still when your home directory is mounted via NFS. I.e. if I have Firefox open on one computer, I cannot open it a second time on another computer in the lab without killing it on the first.
I've fallen in love with some of the features in Konsole, like searching the history, which it's had almost forever.
I've also found DCOP to be extremely useful since I can script things or even control applications remotely. I.e. I needed to change some parameters on a remotely running ktorrent and was easily able to do that via dcop without having any access to the desktop.
For file browsing I have also found Konqueror to be quite powerful, since I can use it rather seamlessly whether I'm browsing files locally, via FTP, fish, on my camera, etc. And if I click on different files, the part for displaying or editing that file is integrated. If I click on a PDF file, kpdf displays it. If I click on a text file, kate is integrated.
Also, each time I tried dealing with the configuration of Gnome to tweak things I was always disappointed in the lack of options.
KDE has also been fairly consistent with the menus.
And lastly, I've found that the embedding of different applications to be quite powerful. For example, I am writing this in Akregator, but all it has to do is add a tab with a KHTML part.
I may try Gnome again one of these days, but each time I do I'm left wanting for a lot of the features and options I take advantage of in KDE.
It's like Gnome goes for simplicity and in the process discards functionality and caters to the most common needs, whereas KDE is much more of a swiss army knife of tools that can be combined together and tweaked to the hearts content.
I might add that I've used the straight KDE distribution (for Solaris) and SuSE distributions.
I won't say KDE is the prettiest environment out there, but I rather have functional over pretty, and some of the other themes for it are rather nice.
I saw the same thing in my home firewall logs. One IP address in China filled 75% of the logs. Out of curiosity I googled that address and came up with a PDF file from the Department of Homeland Security from two years earlier listing the same IP address.
It's well known that China has been spying on us since we periodically catch them and they make the news. It's probably safe to say that a lot of it is quietly supported by the Chinese government or at least they turn a blind eye to it. Much of the espionage on the US government is probably directly from the Chinese government. It's also well known that they break into US companies as well to steal technology and oftentimes the government turns a blind eye to companies infringing on patents.
You can get lots of information on this just by typing chinese espionage in Google.
I was reading up on this a while back and it was recommended to use EXT2 instead of EXT3 since the journal would cause a lot more wear on the flash.
I think there is definitely room for a Linux filesystem that is optimized for dealing with flash devices and limits the number of times data must be written. Furthermore, don't pad with 0's but with 1's (erased flash has all the bits as 1's).
I would love to see a simple universal flash filesystem which could be used by portable devices and PCs without all the limitations of FAT32 (i.e. 4GB file limit) which seems to be the current fs of choice for consumer devices.
JFFS2 is not suitable for regular flash drives (SD/MMC/CF/etc.) since it has its own wear leveling support and is optimized for devices without hardware wear leveling.
For non-flash devices I have switched to XFS due to the higher performance and better tools compared to EXT3.
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That is becoming an issue, though the aperture also fits into this. With an APS-C sized sensor (the most common in D-SLRs) a 12MP camera starts to hit this limit around F11. Having a larger sensor helps in this case.
There is no problem with refinery permits.
None of the oil companies want to build any new refineries when they can just expand the capacity of their existing refineries. There's no waiting list of oil companies asking for permits to build new refineries.
It's extremely expensive to build a new refinery, much more so than just expanding or upgrading existing ones.
This is true. I drive one. I have never had a problem going up a steep grade, though I can't take it fast for a long period of time. Torque is definitely not a problem with this car, and I have no problem carrying four large adults comfortably in it.
Getting 45MPG long-term average is just icing on the cake. It wasn't that much more expensive than a similar non-hybrid car and when I bought it two years ago I knew gas was going to get expensive, especially with China and India competing for oil.
It's not the greatest car in snow, but it never snows where I live and I only take it up to the snow once or twice a year. Storage capacity is also pretty decent. I think in terms of leg room, etc. it's pretty close to the Camery.
I don't know about how being a governor makes you qualified to be President. After all, our current President was a governor before hand.
Actually according to the 1st commandment it is acceptable. It says basically "Thou shalt have no other gods before me.", meaning that you can worship other gods, but that he is the formost or main god and any others are lesser gods. Many people disregard the "before me." but it is there.
Shortly before the California primary I watched a couple of video interviews at Google with both Hillary and Obama. At the time I was still debating between the two. This video cinched it for me and showed that Obama clearly understands technology.
If you think John McCain will reign in spending and return to fiscal discipline think again. An interesting article studies his economic plan and shows how disastrous it is and how it would create the largest deficit since WWII. His answer is to lower or eliminate a lot of taxes and eliminate all pork (roughly $18B). Unfortunately, the amount of pork is far less than the amount of taxes he would lower. He's pretty clueless and is really no different than Bush. Plus, this idiot would likely get us into a war with Iran and possibly more due to his explosive temper, flushing a lot more money (and lives) down the drain.
McCain is actually far closer to Bush and basically just tries to extend Bush's disastrous fiscal policies.
The KDE developers have stated that KDE 4.0 is more of a technology preview. A lot of functionality is still missing and is due to be added in the upcoming KDE 4.1 due out in July. As a long-time KDE user I'm sticking with 3.5.9 until this is resolved. Though KDE 4.0 looks a lot nicer, the missing functionality kills it for me. And when I hear people say that they should remove functionality because 90% of the users don't use it just makes life difficult for the 10% who do. I make heavy use of some of the less common options. I can't even use Compiz because some custom keyboard shortcuts I've added won't work in Compiz (i.e. I map Ctrl+Alt+F to toggle raising and lowering a window) since I often have 20 or more applications open at any given time. I really hope they keep the customizability and hope they just move the more advanced, rarely used options into an advanced tab or something.
A ton of the patents are also held by ReplayTV, which came out just before Tivo. Replay was recently purchased by Direct TV, which is an interesting move since Replay and Tivo cross licensed their patents since neither one could produce a box without infringing on the other's patents.
I also like the interface on my Replay boxes, unfortunately the company stopped making their set-top boxes and never addressed HD, but the features were great (and even their early models had the 8 second skip back and 30 second skip forward).
I have a friend with the Dish PVR and the software on it was quite nice.
When I get around to upgrading everything to HD I'm not sure what I'll do about a DVR. Sadly none of them will match some of my favorite features of my current one (i.e. automatic commercial skipping). Plus, I want one where I can download the content onto my PC like I can with my current one.
I'd set up Myth TV in an instant, but as far as I know it will not record any of the encrypted shows (i.e. sci-fi channel) on cable.
The only "link" I have heard of is the fact that autism usually develops around the time vaccines are given and it's more a coincidence in timing.
However, this has nothing to do with the vaccine and is due to the age of the child.
I got a GPS unit that connects to my camera. I use it to keep track of my photos by embedding the location inside the EXIF information in the photo. That way if I lose it, I know where to go to find it again. Oh, wait. Nevermind. Though it is useful for geocaching.
Actually we see yellow, green and blue. We perceive red by the yellow cone being active in the absense of green. Pure blue appears as a deep violet (i.e. a blacklight). Some women have two different yellow receptors (which are on the X chromosome) and there is some variance between people for yellow.
Actually people are least sensitive to red and blue. We have far fewer blue receptors than green and yellow receptors (we don't have red receptors). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision.
Wikipedia has a good article describing this and the fact that our eyes are actually sensitive to blue, green and greenish/yellow. Red is what you see when the greenish yellow receptor is active but not the green, hence why we aren't all that sensitive to red light but very sensitive to yellow and green. Similarly if only the blue receptor is active you see a deep violet like what you get from a black light.
As far as monitors go, it's often easier on the eyes if you lower the color temperature to 6500K. It will look yellow at first but your eyes will adjust.
-Aaron
I think he should be memorialized like this. It fits him perfectly.
48KHz is used for miniDV, digital TV, DVD and a lot of pro audio gear, so it is actually quite common.
I tried using the integrated nVidia sound on my motherboard. Sadly, the Linux ALSA drivers did not support the mixing of multiple audio sources to the nVidia sound integrated into my motherboard. I.e. only one application at a time could output audio. I ended up just purchasing a Creative Audigy card and from then on everything worked perfectly.
With Creative's behavior today I'd avoid them if possible.
Having used external drives with USB and Firewire 400, I try and use Firewire whenever possible. With USB I saw a lot of strange problems with Linux whenever I tried working with multiple files simultaneously, often with the drive just hanging. With Firewire I had no such problems. Plus, even though theoretically USB is faster than Firewire 400, I always get better performance with lower CPU overhead using Firewire.
My motherboard came with eSata, but the connector for some reason is incompatible with the eSata cables I bought. I need to replace the eSata adapter and try eSata as well.
Gimp does not handle more than 8 bits per color. That renders it useless for my purposes since I need at least 12 when doing operations like shadow recovery of raw image files from my camera. I use this feature all the time.
Besides that, the user interface is too horrible for me to use for my applications... quickly editing hundreds of photos with the Gimp would be an absolute nightmare. I go through this process of editing dozens or hundreds of photos at least once a month.
Until they fix these two issues I won't use it. They've been talking about fixing the first one for ages.
Bibble easily fills both of these requirements, plus a bunch of other features that are missing in Gimp. Most of the features I use are only one or two clicks away. I find the workflow environment invaluable. Plus, it works extremely well with the raw output from my camera at both 12 and 14 bits per color.
McCain may not follow Pat Robertson, but his spiritual advisor Rod Parsley may be as bad or worse. After all, he advocates war against Muslims, prosecuting adulterers and more. Oh, but he's a conservative, so I guess this is acceptable?
It also doesn't help when Wright is taken totally out of context.
I guess that rules out McCain too. After all, McCain's spiritual advisor, Rod Parsley, advocates waging a holy war against Muslims, prosecuting adulterers and compares Planned Parenthood to the Nazis. If that isn't out there and full of hate, I don't know what is?
I guess because he's a republican conservative that this type of thing is OK or expected, but when a democratic candidate goes to a church where the ministor basically says violence begets violence it's much worse, especially when it's taken out of context.
I started with KDE back in 1999 since we were using Sun workstations and CDE was unusable. I managed to compile KDE 1.2 and added a Solaris sound driver to ARTS and have been using it ever since. I have tried Gnome on a number of occasions, but I always go back to KDE since it always feels like my hands are tied behind my back with Gnome. Yes, KDE is cluttered (much better in 4.0), but I often use a lot of that "clutter". There are a lot more menu options, but I've frequently found them useful.
Some things in Gnome I absolutely detest, like their file dialogs. The KDE file dialogs are a lot more friendly and powerful, and I've found that the integration seems better. They're also consistent across applications and not limited to just local files, but http, ftp, fish, etc.
When it comes to things like burning CDs or DVDs, I have yet to find anything that comes close to k3b, or for music, Amarok.
I still use Thunderbird for email due to some issues Kmail has with IMAP, but I'll switch in an instant once those are fixed. For the web, I have found that Firefox has slowly adopted a number of features I've been using for a long time in Konqueror. Both Firefox and Thunderbird have some nasty issues still when your home directory is mounted via NFS. I.e. if I have Firefox open on one computer, I cannot open it a second time on another computer in the lab without killing it on the first.
I've fallen in love with some of the features in Konsole, like searching the history, which it's had almost forever.
I've also found DCOP to be extremely useful since I can script things or even control applications remotely. I.e. I needed to change some parameters on a remotely running ktorrent and was easily able to do that via dcop without having any access to the desktop.
For file browsing I have also found Konqueror to be quite powerful, since I can use it rather seamlessly whether I'm browsing files locally, via FTP, fish, on my camera, etc. And if I click on different files, the part for displaying or editing that file is integrated. If I click on a PDF file, kpdf displays it. If I click on a text file, kate is integrated.
Also, each time I tried dealing with the configuration of Gnome to tweak things I was always disappointed in the lack of options.
KDE has also been fairly consistent with the menus.
And lastly, I've found that the embedding of different applications to be quite powerful. For example, I am writing this in Akregator, but all it has to do is add a tab with a KHTML part.
I may try Gnome again one of these days, but each time I do I'm left wanting for a lot of the features and options I take advantage of in KDE.
It's like Gnome goes for simplicity and in the process discards functionality and caters to the most common needs, whereas KDE is much more of a swiss army knife of tools that can be combined together and tweaked to the hearts content.
I might add that I've used the straight KDE distribution (for Solaris) and SuSE distributions.
I won't say KDE is the prettiest environment out there, but I rather have functional over pretty, and some of the other themes for it are rather nice.
I hope the Supreme Court pisses all over the FCC and this fucking indecency shit and gets it thrown out.
Obligatory Monty Python/Eric Idle FCC video.
I saw the same thing in my home firewall logs. One IP address in China filled 75% of the logs. Out of curiosity I googled that address and came up with a PDF file from the Department of Homeland Security from two years earlier listing the same IP address.
It's well known that China has been spying on us since we periodically catch them and they make the news. It's probably safe to say that a lot of it is quietly supported by the Chinese government or at least they turn a blind eye to it. Much of the espionage on the US government is probably directly from the Chinese government. It's also well known that they break into US companies as well to steal technology and oftentimes the government turns a blind eye to companies infringing on patents.
You can get lots of information on this just by typing chinese espionage in Google.
I was reading up on this a while back and it was recommended to use EXT2 instead of EXT3 since the journal would cause a lot more wear on the flash.
I think there is definitely room for a Linux filesystem that is optimized for dealing with flash devices and limits the number of times data must be written. Furthermore, don't pad with 0's but with 1's (erased flash has all the bits as 1's).
I would love to see a simple universal flash filesystem which could be used by portable devices and PCs without all the limitations of FAT32 (i.e. 4GB file limit) which seems to be the current fs of choice for consumer devices.
JFFS2 is not suitable for regular flash drives (SD/MMC/CF/etc.) since it has its own wear leveling support and is optimized for devices without hardware wear leveling.
For non-flash devices I have switched to XFS due to the higher performance and better tools compared to EXT3.
-Aaron