READ and WRITE speeds may be different. I'm more concerned with how quick the camera writes to the card (Galbraith's numbers) than how quick I can read the data off the card (XYZs numbers)
However...for my money battery life is more important. I'm more concerned with how much battery life the Extreme III vs the Standard card consumes.
I have a 128Mb Sandisk Standard and it drains the battery on my Canon 10D much more quickly than the 512Mb Extreme III that I have. And when the battery gets low on the camera I get an "Error #2" very quickly when using the standard card.
Unfortunately neither Galbraith or XYZ give any numbers on power consumption.
My Starchoice remote has tons of buttons like interests, etc. that I never even use, but they don't get in my way, the big hat, channel up and down buttons and channel number buttons are well layed out to make it easy to use.
I think that's a problem with the menu layout not the buttons persay.
I still think you could get away with about 10 buttons since I dont usually use the 12 for the channels.
The thing I would really like though is the ability to page-down page-up in the guide, skipping 5 or 6 at a time would be ideal. Maybe there is that functionality already, but I don't have it set up.
And even if it did have tv recording functions, my MythTV setup for instance uses about 9, maybe 10 buttons plus lets say 12 for the number pad. 22 total
Tivo Series 1 has 33 if you count the four way hat as four.
For me it's not so much how many buttons, but whether they layout is useful.
I do question magnetizing screwdrivers, tho. Do you really WANT a magnet poking around next to magnetically-sensitive equipment?
And what magnetically sensitive equipment would you be talking about exactly?
Just try to degauss a floppy disk with a magnetic screwdriver, and the magnets inside your typical harddrive are many times stronger than your screwdriver will be too, not that you'll be putting such a tool inside the drive anyways.
Although this "raincoat effect" is more likely all of Asia combined rather than just China by itself.
The real big problem is that all companies using such labor are exporting jobs and production to environments where our strict rules about workplace safety, environmental regulations, child labor,etc. I don't think we can expect that to last forever, in the short term it's cheap raincoats, in the long term the pollution will force change and in the long term I would hope workers rights will take off.
The sorts of changes that should be required is that companies who import goods should have to prove their goods meet *OUR* labor standards otherwise face tarrifs. In this way we can export our humane labor standards.
And then part of the argument sort of goes back into a circle, since we can't make a good living in purely production roles....North American schools should be teaching more high level skills like science fields.
The Hong Kong fashion industry grew out of the factories producing knockoffs of western designers, and now they are one of the fashion capitols of the world.
Also, the article has "Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved." followed immediately by "Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery." So, which is it?
Um both? If your blood vessels are damaged by a gunshot wound as stated in the article and you have massive bloodloss this would keep you "alive" by keeping you dead for a time while they patched you up.
Personally I think the fluids would just drain out of whatever wounds you do have.
I think a better application of this technology will be for these multi-hour operations where they want to repair heart defects or do transplants, in which they currently induce hypothermic states.
Also check out Whiteboxlinux.net you'll see that the site maintainer was growing frustrated with lack of updates to Whitebox, and switched over to Centos.
The projects were started about the same time.
There are also other competing projects Taolinux, Rocks, XOS, etc...
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> Kodakchrome 64 is still a classic, except it has > to be sent back to Kodak for processing. (Although > people have told me that's no longer true, and > some larger labs can do it, but I didn't think > Kodak had licensened the technology - it's a > different developing process).
Don't bother with Kodachrome, it is on it's way out and you have to send it to Kodak Toronto or Rochester to have it developed.
The chemicals used to develop it are more toxic than the alternatives and it takes weeks if not months to get your film back.
I like Velvia if it's sunny and you have that option, otherwise Sensia or Ektachrome will do just fine.
> Interplay has had some terrible legal problems > preventing them from releasing a next-generation > 3D Baldur's Gate-type game--a game 2 years in > development shelved for good because of Wizards of > the Coast, or whoever owns the AD&D license this > week.
AD&D is still owned by TSR just that they got bought by Wizards which got bought by Hasbro.
Not terribly complicated, but Hasbro is big enough in it's own right that it wants to do things in house and even then only a particular subset of genres at all (mostly toys and family games).
It's not like Hasbro could have cancelled any ongoing contracts. And it's likely that any projects that had AD&D licensing had a framework/timeframe during which to complete their game. You snooze you lose.
Certainly it should be encouraged that technologies be developed that can be used in flexible mission requirements, be they moon or mars.
Even at 2 or 3 days transit, the moon is many many days more away than that if you have to prepare a launch vehicle. Although an emergency launch from the moon to get back to Earth would not be out of the question.
Had NASA determined there was a high likelyhood that the shuttle would breakup on re-entry and decided to launch a rescue/repair/inspection mission, it would have been weeks to mobilize all these resources on Earth. Too late for those astronauts.
And with the recent shuttle disaster the space program decided not to launch any more shuttles to the space station relying on Russian rockets to fulfill supply missions. I'm not sure moon residents could have this luxury.
It sure would certainly be easier to convince the president to sneak out one night and visit the moon (even at a week total time), than it would be to Mars.
Going to the moon really is a waste of time as far as a permanent venture. All materials required for the survival of men living on the moon would have to come from Earth.
There is a good chance that a mars mission could be self sufficient.
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Well, Dell offers an almost identical laptop to the MacBook Pro that also came out in Januaray.
Rob Galbraith has a long more comprehensive list of CF cards rated by transfer to computer performance here:i d=6007-6133
i d=6007-6111
i d=6007
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?c
The Sandisk Extreme III 1G vs Sandisk Standard 1G on the CF to computer test scores 12.859MB/sec vs 2.377MB/sec
In my Canon 10D
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?c
1.387MB/sec vs 806K/sec (sorry slower older camera that can't reach the speeds of the newer DSLRs)
READ and WRITE speeds may be different. I'm more concerned with how quick the camera writes to the card (Galbraith's numbers) than how quick I can read the data off the card (XYZs numbers)
However...for my money battery life is more important. I'm more concerned with how much battery life the Extreme III vs the Standard card consumes.
I have a 128Mb Sandisk Standard and it drains the battery on my Canon 10D much more quickly than the 512Mb Extreme III that I have. And when the battery gets low on the camera I get an "Error #2" very quickly when using the standard card.
Unfortunately neither Galbraith or XYZ give any numbers on power consumption.
Galbraith goes into more detail on how to compare and review cards here:
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?c
My Starchoice remote has tons of buttons like interests, etc. that I never even use, but they don't get in my way, the big hat, channel up and down buttons and channel number buttons are well layed out to make it easy to use.
I think that's a problem with the menu layout not the buttons persay.
I still think you could get away with about 10 buttons since I dont usually use the 12 for the channels.
The thing I would really like though is the ability to page-down page-up in the guide, skipping 5 or 6 at a time would be ideal. Maybe there is that functionality already, but I don't have it set up.
And even if it did have tv recording functions, my MythTV setup for instance uses about 9, maybe 10 buttons plus lets say 12 for the number pad. 22 total
Tivo Series 1 has 33 if you count the four way hat as four.
For me it's not so much how many buttons, but whether they layout is useful.
'Nuff said
Ever heard of S.A.M.E.?
2 000_same.pdf
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/pdf/oow
It's trivial to implement Mysql or Postgresql on top of S.A.M.E.
Now that would be funny. Or maybe some sort of Arctic Circle server farm.
Seems a bit impractical, limited travel to those areas in the winter.
Edmonton is about as far north as you'd like to go.
Canada has fairly normal temperature ranges in the summer requiring standard air conditioning.
For some reason? Air Conditioners also do dehumidification, so you're just getting extra humidity from the hallway of course.
And what magnetically sensitive equipment would you be talking about exactly?
Just try to degauss a floppy disk with a magnetic screwdriver, and the magnets inside your typical harddrive are many times stronger than your screwdriver will be too, not that you'll be putting such a tool inside the drive anyways.
I saw a great post in a previous discussion that said basically, the certification itself isn't worth much.
That the certification process represents the fact that the person either had the knowledge or spent time training to achieve the certication.
Although this "raincoat effect" is more likely all of Asia combined rather than just China by itself.
The real big problem is that all companies using such labor are exporting jobs and production to environments where our strict rules about workplace safety, environmental regulations, child labor,etc. I don't think we can expect that to last forever, in the short term it's cheap raincoats, in the long term the pollution will force change and in the long term I would hope workers rights will take off.
The sorts of changes that should be required is that companies who import goods should have to prove their goods meet *OUR* labor standards otherwise face tarrifs. In this way we can export our humane labor standards.
And then part of the argument sort of goes back into a circle, since we can't make a good living in purely production roles....North American schools should be teaching more high level skills like science fields.
It's just a matter of time.
The Hong Kong fashion industry grew out of the factories producing knockoffs of western designers, and now they are one of the fashion capitols of the world.
Personally I think the fluids would just drain out of whatever wounds you do have.
I think a better application of this technology will be for these multi-hour operations where they want to repair heart defects or do transplants, in which they currently induce hypothermic states.
The projects are unrelated.
If you'd like to migrate from WBEL:
Migration from WBEL to Centos
Also check out Whiteboxlinux.net you'll see that the site maintainer was growing frustrated with lack of updates to Whitebox, and switched over to Centos.
The projects were started about the same time.
There are also other competing projects Taolinux, Rocks, XOS, etc...
http:/mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/RELEASE-N OTES-en.html
Of course that misses the point about getting low latencies to improve Beowolf cluster performance by a factor over ethernet.
I've always understood that Myrinet is one of the better latency products available.
s p?content=9
And it has MacOSX Drivers:
http://www.myri.com/scs/macosx-gm2.html
Myrinet is used by 39% of the Top500 list published in November 2003
http://www.force10networks.com/applications/roe.a
might be nice to actually link to the review?
0 0.html
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/ex-s1
And then they decided it might be a nice idea to visit you and break your car up and your kneecaps.
How fun.
> Kodakchrome 64 is still a classic, except it has
> to be sent back to Kodak for processing. (Although
> people have told me that's no longer true, and
> some larger labs can do it, but I didn't think
> Kodak had licensened the technology - it's a
> different developing process).
Don't bother with Kodachrome, it is on it's way out and you have to send it to Kodak Toronto or Rochester to have it developed.
The chemicals used to develop it are more toxic than the alternatives and it takes weeks if not months to get your film back.
I like Velvia if it's sunny and you have that option, otherwise Sensia or Ektachrome will do just fine.
-Mike
> Interplay has had some terrible legal problems
> preventing them from releasing a next-generation
> 3D Baldur's Gate-type game--a game 2 years in
> development shelved for good because of Wizards of > the Coast, or whoever owns the AD&D license this
> week.
AD&D is still owned by TSR just that they got bought by Wizards which got bought by Hasbro.
Not terribly complicated, but Hasbro is big enough in it's own right that it wants to do things in house and even then only a particular subset of genres at all (mostly toys and family games).
It's not like Hasbro could have cancelled any ongoing contracts. And it's likely that any projects that had AD&D licensing had a framework/timeframe during which to complete their game. You snooze you lose.
-S
Certainly it should be encouraged that technologies be developed that can be used in flexible mission requirements, be they moon or mars.
Even at 2 or 3 days transit, the moon is many many days more away than that if you have to prepare a launch vehicle. Although an emergency launch from the moon to get back to Earth would not be out of the question.
Had NASA determined there was a high likelyhood that the shuttle would breakup on re-entry and decided to launch a rescue/repair/inspection mission, it would have been weeks to mobilize all these resources on Earth. Too late for those astronauts.
And with the recent shuttle disaster the space program decided not to launch any more shuttles to the space station relying on Russian rockets to fulfill supply missions. I'm not sure moon residents could have this luxury.
It sure would certainly be easier to convince the president to sneak out one night and visit the moon (even at a week total time), than it would be to Mars.
You should read The Case for Mars.
Going to the moon really is a waste of time as far as a permanent venture. All materials required for the survival of men living on the moon would have to come from Earth.
There is a good chance that a mars mission could be self sufficient.
http://www.nw.net/mars/