What exactly was hard about the instructions? When I first found out about CHDK I had it running on my camera *3 minutes* after the download completed.
All you do is: 1) copy the files to your flash card 2) Power up the camera in playback mode while holding the menu button to add the firmware update option to the menu. This is something you should already know how to do from the cameras manual! 3) Select the update.
Once the files are on the flash card you can repeat this process at any time in under 15 seconds. If you want to use the stock firmware then you just don't run the update.
The custom firmware has all kinds of neat features. If you like making HDR pics, you can use available scripts or write your own to bracket the exposures. My Powershot A620 now has the ability to shoot RAW thanks to CHDK.
Some builds even incorporate face detection and motion detection. Screw webcams, how about having a 7 megapixel camera capturing what's happening outside your window.
Time lapse photography is now a cinch, as are all kinds of things that the stock camera doesn't do.
I never found any of the features to be all that hackerish. They don't document using a histogram, sure... but if you're downloading a firmware for the use of a histogram, you probably already know what one is!
It may be a "for profit" company, but Shuttleworth has enough money that he can easily afford to run the company at a loss. It probably might even give him a tax break or two.
If the guy believes in an idea, and has the money to throw at it for years to come then why detract from it. This could be an extremely long term view. As long as Ubuntu continues to grow like this, who knows what it's future revenue could be for the company.
Every time a new entity, whether it's a school system or a government adapts Ubuntu, it's a huge step for the community and the company.
When it comes to security, the best answer usually becomes the most unpopular and hard to swallow. Hard to swallow? Then you don't want to know where I hide the thumb drive with my SSH keys.
You make it sound like it was a carrot dangling before the FBI that enticed them to lie.
The FBI has a long and sordid past of corruption and underhanded acts. While there are many good and dedicated people that work within it, you can be sure that an organization with its reach is surely abused more than the public or the media are aware.
I like listening to Futures in BioTech, but their sponsors tend to be for PCR kits and stuff. Things I'm never going to buy because I'm not a scientist. I just like listening to Scientists:)
After all the effort Donny Hoyle put into his Photoshop tutorials, despite his failed marriage and active facebook dating life, you'd even consider using Gimp?
Heh, you know, that's probably it. I saw the article a short while back about them complaining that the doctype declaration that everyone uses generates pointless traffic to the site so I removed it. Like I said, I'm just an HTML noob. The interesting thing is that I've seen tons of sites declaring how to fix said quirks with javascript, and none have mentioned the doctype.
There are many examples of animals which could not have developed gradually through evolution without dying off because without all their current physical properties the animals would not survive for evolution to try again.
Name one. That's all I want to see. One single creature that you claim wouldn't have survived to reproduce to its current state.
I would also like to see a citation for the Great Flood claims made above as well. I've never seen a geologist claim there was one, though I've seen them talk about substantial flooding in the areas surrounding Mesopotamia. The only person I know personally that believes in a great flood is also rigid in his belief that the earth is 6000 years old and dinosaurs are a trick played on us by God. If he used any reference other than the bible or Kent Hovind I might give his claims some consideration, but alas that isn't the case.
I was kind of hoping that IE8 would at least be more compatible with CSS as I possess only basic HTML skills and find it a huge pain to try and make things look similar in multiple browsers by using javascript hacks and other crap.
But even the most basic CSS like
margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
to center a DIV doesn't work in IE8 while it works great in Firefox. Maybe I just read the wrong HTML/CSS tutorial sites but it would be nice if they rendered things consistently.
I can confirm that. My SO worked at the London, Ontario office (yay outsourcing) that handled Verizon calls and the single most important metric was call handle time. If you weren't operating under a certain amount of time you didn't get bonuses and were seen as an incompetent tool. It doesn't matter that the person on the other end may be elderly and not follow instructions quickly - rush them and get them off the phone. They've got a complaint? Placate them with a bullshit story and get them off the phone. Rogers and Bell are just as bad up here as well. I've spent 7 hours on the phone (15 minutes total talking, rest of the time on hold) with Bell resolving billing issues. With Rogers I lost service in Toronto for 10 days, and the rep actually accused me of lying that my modem wasn't online - he claimed he was pinging it - and became abusive. I hung up on him. The next day Rogers discovered subway workers or someone else had cut a line that caused my outage. Why they didn't figure something was up when the rest of the neighborhood was complaining, I don't know. It certainly couldn't have affected just my place.
Back in '86 or '87 I was learning Pascal, and a couple of my first programs faked a DOS prompt and took string input, then responded with comments like "Ooooh, go easy on those keys big boy!" and other stupid flirty/innuendo things. I then put them on the schools boot disks and added calls to them in the autoexec files. The next day a bunch of kids got hit on by their computers at boot time, but after seven prompts the computer would boot as normal.
All the computer lab teacher did was ask me to revert the autoexec's back to normal and remove my files. Not even a detention. I'd be suspended or worse these days.
The New Scientist recently posted a list of craziest experiments, one of them being what was the minimum needed to turn on a male turkey.
It turned out a mummified head on a stick did the trick.
Though our courting rituals may be more complex (or at least appear to be to us), we're nothing more than another type of animal convinced of our own superiority. That doesn't mean we cant' fool our brains into wanting or enjoying something that doesn't contribute to the survivability of the race.
We'll find our own mummified head-on-a-stick soon enough.
Try the "Great Canadian Superstore", those giant rebranded Loblaws grocery stores.
I found one in St. Thomas (just outside london) when I checked out their electronics department. People couldn't get them at the local EBs or Wal-marts, but nobody was thinking to check a grocery store.
I ran into issues that would take a couple of days to track down solutions for, but they were typically not anything that a newbie would be doing anyway.
Like trying to find out why I kept ending up with header mismatches when installing Compiz. Using Envy solved that problem in seconds, once I finally found a reference to it.
One of the things that I'd like to see in the default browser page for *any* installed OS, is a users guide to getting the most out of search engines. Sometimes even those of us who have taken the time to add logic to our searches still have to stumble through pages and pages of crap. Imagine how daunting it must be to someone who doesn't really know which of the the first hundred or so links Google returns to them is actually relevant, and not like that damned blog-tutorials site that collects random newsgroup posts and sticks adsense ads on them.
If a new user can find an easy way to learn, they just might:)
And free only denotes cost to the user at the end of the process. There are other ways to recoup the money. Increase the price of online-capable games by a percentage, or lower the payouts to developers, or higher licensing fees, or even sacrifice a chunk of profit in exchange for market penetration.
So we start out with a strand of DNA, and the camera zooms out, and you see the cells, the organism, skip a few, then the earth, solar syste, galaxy, big DNA helix in space, and start over.
So if we're just in someone else's cells, how long until we're all wiped out in 'The Big Sneeze'?
In my experience the younger players can be annoying, but it's when they're bored and looking for other ways to create their fun. Include them in things and they often settle down quickly, or often you can ignore the really idiotic ones and they wander away on their own.
But if you run into an adult player who is rude, inconsiderate, and just a general pain in the ass, chances are that person will still be exactly the same months or years down the road.
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What exactly was hard about the instructions?
When I first found out about CHDK I had it running on my camera *3 minutes* after the download completed.
All you do is:
1) copy the files to your flash card
2) Power up the camera in playback mode while holding the menu button to add the firmware update option to the menu. This is something you should already know how to do from the cameras manual!
3) Select the update.
Once the files are on the flash card you can repeat this process at any time in under 15 seconds. If you want to use the stock firmware then you just don't run the update.
The custom firmware has all kinds of neat features. If you like making HDR pics, you can use available scripts or write your own to bracket the exposures. My Powershot A620 now has the ability to shoot RAW thanks to CHDK.
Some builds even incorporate face detection and motion detection. Screw webcams, how about having a 7 megapixel camera capturing what's happening outside your window.
Time lapse photography is now a cinch, as are all kinds of things that the stock camera doesn't do.
I never found any of the features to be all that hackerish. They don't document using a histogram, sure... but if you're downloading a firmware for the use of a histogram, you probably already know what one is!
Hear, hear!
It may be a "for profit" company, but Shuttleworth has enough money that he can easily afford to run the company at a loss. It probably might even give him a tax break or two.
If the guy believes in an idea, and has the money to throw at it for years to come then why detract from it. This could be an extremely long term view. As long as Ubuntu continues to grow like this, who knows what it's future revenue could be for the company.
Every time a new entity, whether it's a school system or a government adapts Ubuntu, it's a huge step for the community and the company.
You make it sound like it was a carrot dangling before the FBI that enticed them to lie.
The FBI has a long and sordid past of corruption and underhanded acts. While there are many good and dedicated people that work within it, you can be sure that an organization with its reach is surely abused more than the public or the media are aware.
I like listening to Futures in BioTech, but their sponsors tend to be for PCR kits and stuff. Things I'm never going to buy because I'm not a scientist. I just like listening to Scientists :)
After all the effort Donny Hoyle put into his Photoshop tutorials, despite his failed marriage and active facebook dating life, you'd even consider using Gimp?
Shame on you! Shame!
So it's the equivalent of a Turing test for civilizations. :)
Heh, you know, that's probably it.
I saw the article a short while back about them complaining that the doctype declaration that everyone uses generates pointless traffic to the site so I removed it.
Like I said, I'm just an HTML noob. The interesting thing is that I've seen tons of sites declaring how to fix said quirks with javascript, and none have mentioned the doctype.
You should have more than +2
Thanks
There are many examples of animals which could not have developed gradually through evolution without dying off because without all their current physical properties the animals would not survive for evolution to try again.
Name one. That's all I want to see. One single creature that you claim wouldn't have survived to reproduce to its current state.
I would also like to see a citation for the Great Flood claims made above as well. I've never seen a geologist claim there was one, though I've seen them talk about substantial flooding in the areas surrounding Mesopotamia. The only person I know personally that believes in a great flood is also rigid in his belief that the earth is 6000 years old and dinosaurs are a trick played on us by God. If he used any reference other than the bible or Kent Hovind I might give his claims some consideration, but alas that isn't the case.
The difference is that Science has peer review and Religion has the Inquisition.
I was kind of hoping that IE8 would at least be more compatible with CSS as I possess only basic HTML skills and find it a huge pain to try and make things look similar in multiple browsers by using javascript hacks and other crap.
But even the most basic CSS like
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
to center a DIV doesn't work in IE8 while it works great in Firefox.
Maybe I just read the wrong HTML/CSS tutorial sites but it would be nice if they rendered things consistently.
I can confirm that. My SO worked at the London, Ontario office (yay outsourcing) that handled Verizon calls and the single most important metric was call handle time. If you weren't operating under a certain amount of time you didn't get bonuses and were seen as an incompetent tool. It doesn't matter that the person on the other end may be elderly and not follow instructions quickly - rush them and get them off the phone. They've got a complaint? Placate them with a bullshit story and get them off the phone.
Rogers and Bell are just as bad up here as well. I've spent 7 hours on the phone (15 minutes total talking, rest of the time on hold) with Bell resolving billing issues. With Rogers I lost service in Toronto for 10 days, and the rep actually accused me of lying that my modem wasn't online - he claimed he was pinging it - and became abusive. I hung up on him. The next day Rogers discovered subway workers or someone else had cut a line that caused my outage. Why they didn't figure something was up when the rest of the neighborhood was complaining, I don't know. It certainly couldn't have affected just my place.
The German kid was just acting though.
He made a series of videos of "characters" like that, and that one spun out of control.
Back in '86 or '87 I was learning Pascal, and a couple of my first programs faked a DOS prompt and took string input, then responded with comments like "Ooooh, go easy on those keys big boy!" and other stupid flirty/innuendo things. I then put them on the schools boot disks and added calls to them in the autoexec files.
The next day a bunch of kids got hit on by their computers at boot time, but after seven prompts the computer would boot as normal.
All the computer lab teacher did was ask me to revert the autoexec's back to normal and remove my files. Not even a detention. I'd be suspended or worse these days.
The New Scientist recently posted a list of craziest experiments, one of them being what was the minimum needed to turn on a male turkey.
It turned out a mummified head on a stick did the trick.
Though our courting rituals may be more complex (or at least appear to be to us), we're nothing more than another type of animal convinced of our own superiority. That doesn't mean we cant' fool our brains into wanting or enjoying something that doesn't contribute to the survivability of the race.
We'll find our own mummified head-on-a-stick soon enough.
Awesome! Does it run better in Wine or Cedega?
Try the "Great Canadian Superstore", those giant rebranded Loblaws grocery stores.
I found one in St. Thomas (just outside london) when I checked out their electronics department. People couldn't get them at the local EBs or Wal-marts, but nobody was thinking to check a grocery store.
I ran into issues that would take a couple of days to track down solutions for, but they were typically not anything that a newbie would be doing anyway.
:)
Like trying to find out why I kept ending up with header mismatches when installing Compiz. Using Envy solved that problem in seconds, once I finally found a reference to it.
One of the things that I'd like to see in the default browser page for *any* installed OS, is a users guide to getting the most out of search engines. Sometimes even those of us who have taken the time to add logic to our searches still have to stumble through pages and pages of crap. Imagine how daunting it must be to someone who doesn't really know which of the the first hundred or so links Google returns to them is actually relevant, and not like that damned blog-tutorials site that collects random newsgroup posts and sticks adsense ads on them.
If a new user can find an easy way to learn, they just might
How long under we see custom designed ones that fit into an eye socket? :)
And free only denotes cost to the user at the end of the process. There are other ways to recoup the money. Increase the price of online-capable games by a percentage, or lower the payouts to developers, or higher licensing fees, or even sacrifice a chunk of profit in exchange for market penetration.
Who knows. But it certainly won't be "free".
So we start out with a strand of DNA, and the camera zooms out, and you see the cells, the organism, skip a few, then the earth, solar syste, galaxy, big DNA helix in space, and start over.
So if we're just in someone else's cells, how long until we're all wiped out in 'The Big Sneeze'?
Brisco County would have been the perfect foil to Deadwood. They should bring it back just for the contrast.
There were a couple of race riots in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 90s.
Not sure what the cause of racial tension was, but it was a significant occurence nonetheless.
In my experience the younger players can be annoying, but it's when they're bored and looking for other ways to create their fun. Include them in things and they often settle down quickly, or often you can ignore the really idiotic ones and they wander away on their own.
But if you run into an adult player who is rude, inconsiderate, and just a general pain in the ass, chances are that person will still be exactly the same months or years down the road.
Oh cool. Thanks for the link :)