If your email is proximate to you via this phone, regardless of network mechanism, then it is proximate to them. If you can "grab it immediately," so can they.
Anything you have immediate access to could have been used to commit the crime you were arrested for. If there is a bomb procedure you were referring to in your email on your phone, regardless of network delivery mechanism, then it is proximate to them precisely because it is also proximate to you.
Seems simple, really (when things seem simple, I'm usually missing something). I don't necessarily like it, but it is logical.
I can easily hear a Supreme Court Justice asking their "obvious" questions on this topic: "Was the smart phone with them when they were arrested? Was there any reason to suspect the phone might have been used to facilitate the crime they were arrested for? Does it really matter, on a network protocol level or other digital machination method, how the phone may have been used to facilitate the crime they were arrested for?"
To this day I cant understand why anyone would buy a hybrid.
I see this a lot, and it always bugs me. I own a Ford hybrid., and I am *far* from a rich person (actively saving!).
Perhaps you can't understand because you've limited your sense of value to $$$. You've made some fine responsible financial decisions. I try to. For example as a single parent it is imperative to me to have life insurance instead of faster internet or cable TV or something like WoW. I probably would enjoy those things, but like you I made different value assessments.
I will admit to a fleeting feeling of smug superiority when I first took my car off the lot. Perhaps you get the same feeling from your choices (else why post them on/.?). But my happiness comes from other reasons, too.
Driving a vehicle with a partially electric drive train is fun! Some people like J-shifters and 5000 HP. I like smooth acceleration, an ECVT (shifting! how quaint!), and 2 power sources. I've had exciting experiences driving in all-electric mode in snowstorms with electric brakes (no mechanical/hydraulic linkage from foot to pads). I am proud of supporting an American company's venture into alternative drive trains. I am giddy that my car cost Ford more to make than I paid for it (I was one of the first). Near real-time status of the car's performance to this day teaches me better driving habits. Having 120VAC on board is awesome. I have future dreams of a plug-in conversion.
All of that joy helped me tolerate things others wouldn't in addition to the hybrid premium: firmware killing power-steering in the cold (Software! Fixed steering! Just... wow.), electric motors that could simply not power out of some situations like going backwards up steep icy hills (only FrontWD and electric going backwards), worse mileage and battery performance below zero (I'm near your latitude, to your east). All of that prepped me for my next desired vehicle in a few years - an all-electric of some kind. I know what I'm getting myself into.
Lots of my choices, like reducing carbon-in-carbon-out, demonstrating to my child responsible decisions over popular ones, and re-learning how to drive very economically in any vehicle could have been had with a car like yours. But I would have missed out on the other things that gave me joy and experiences that I value. This car gives me pleasure every single day I drive it (biking to work more days now). Some people get that from more money in the bank, living uber-frugal, or driving dual-DVD playing SUVs to take the boat to the lake once a year. I can understand why anyone would make those decisions. I just make my own.
Do you mean the "netbook" edition? Is that what I should install on my regular looking laptop to get working power management? Or should I use the desktop edition that has a picture of a regular looking laptop next to it? 'Cause I'm not fucking blind, but still am confused...
There will always be a complainer until Apple releases every song ever, including bootlegs, in Ogg, MP3, AAC, Flac, and ten other formats, and change the iPod to support all of the same, and make the iPod a 3G wireless device that has a built in BitTorrent client to grab the files quicker, and they cook you dinner and do your laundry too.
What breaks my parents Windows PC isn't their use - it's OTHER people: other family members, wacky in-laws, visitors, well-meaning friends, grand-kids (aged 4 to 40), neighbors.
I find I am often building a machine a COMMUNITY will use. If it isn't a Windows machine, then someone in the community will eventually talk them into Windows (and botch the install and lose all their pictures - been there). When some other "expert" tells them how to do something, they think they are saving *me* time by letting them! Almost never works out that way, though...
So I setup the Windows machine as best I can such that anybody can sit down and use it. That means Windows and lots of good practices. Make a locked-down visitors account, etc. (much good stuff in other posts). If people sit down and the machine just works they are way less tempted to try and break it.
For example I always install iTunes and WMP in ways that are non-nagging and safe. I used to install Winamp and hide WMP, but then iTunes would get installed by SOMEBODY and someone else would try Windows Media Player and enable default DRM crap thereby breaking iTunes, and the RealPlayer would get on there and break it all over again - result = me doing tech support. So I set it up the right way and when they use it, it just works (even RealPlayer!) and they aren't tempted to "fix" it better. Been quite stable this way and my parents don't have to play PC cop or Ubuntu Guru for their extended family and friends. I get the occasional toolbar in Firefox you don't want, but their machine is often the most workable of their community.
Ubuntu would NOT work for their community. Neither I nor my folks can educate them all. Unfortunately the same is true of the Mac. I use all 3 OSes, BTW, and prefer Ubuntu for myself.
If your parents have no friends or family, then, by all means, set them up with Ubuntu or a Mac. But if they are a community hub like mine are, you're best bet is to cater to the community and enable it (in a sand-boxed way) to work the way they expect and that's Windows, done right.
I've run the PCs at a a gaming convention for several years and have had Wolf there every year for the past 4. This year I tried Tremulous. Most everyone, especially the 13-16 year-olds really enjoyed it. Many said, "Way better than Wolf!" We even had girls playing!
It ran on more aged hardware much better than Wolf did. Higher FPS. Snappier. Ran on meh MacBooks with Intel graphics quite acceptably. Has enough newness with the aliens so it's not a same-old same-old FPS. Some RTS elements. I like it.
Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses.
Why I'm replying to your ungrateful and horrible impoliteness is beyond me, though. I really like how you didn't say that virtualization wouldn't work in your original question, nor did you mention the scenario/target audience, yet you are insulting those who couldn't read your mind. Well done!
I purchased World of Goo (by 2D Boy) this past weekend and it rocks. Nothing wrong with 2D games (many flash games are) if they are playable.
Simple understandable games (like Goo) are often better in 3D and more instantly accessible. Limiting the required axes gets you to the game faster. Not having wacky 3D cams whipsawing your perspective around is nice, too. Party games are mostly 2D. Even Wii Sports is mostly 2D, really. I think that would be considered mass market and successful, wouldn't you?
One is physical (see my post below) - the way you get the LCD image in an SLR is via a prism in the viewfinder (light from your subject is split between your eye and the LCD watcher). When the mirror flips up so the light can hit the main CCD/CMOS imager instead of your eye, well there is no longer any light going to the viewfinder or the prism where the LCD grabber lives.
One could be a reduction in power usage. LCD backlights take power. So do shutters and CCDs. At the moment of exposure, the power goes where it is needed.
Another could be processing power. Rather than drive the LCD, all of the camera's CPU is dedicated to the task at hand which is to get the exposure correct very quickly. High end SLRs will favor reaction time (reduced lag time) over live chimping because the moment of capture is more important than anything else. Low-end point-n-shoots favor creature features over lag time and that's usually why they suck for lag.
A method that is used to get live preview on SLRs is a prism either in the viewfinder or in place of the mirror.
Canon had a film camera years ago that used the prism-instead-of-a-mirror method. The benefit was you never lost the image in the viewfinder and the camera could do 10 FPS (which was amazing back then). The drawback was it cost you 1 to 2 stops worth of light.
On Canon SLRs the shutter blades travel as you describe. As the shutter speed gets faster, the delay between when the first/front curtain fires and the second/rear curtain fires gets shorter and shorter. At shutter speeds faster than X-sync (fastest shutter speed usable with flash), both curtains can be moving at the same time leaving a narrow slit between them. The width of that moving slit is effectively the shutter speed. The curtains always move at the same speed, just the delay between when they "fire" is altered.
On some more recent Nikons, the same is true up to 1/250, but then the imager becomes the gate. At shutter speeds faster than X-sync, the shutters stay open as if they were set to 1/250 even if you are at 1/8000. The imager simply captures for less time.
And on some Nikon cameras LCD shutters are being used.
It is a changing world for good old focal plane shutters.
The risk of screwing up your camera comes from potentially feeding it a parameter outside of it's safety zone.
For instance what if there were a RAM mode in the hacked firmware for firing the flash at a rate faster than the camera's default firmware would allow. You try it for that super cool skateboard picture and wonder why your flash Fresnel is brown and smoking after the fact. Granted the caps shouldn't be able to do that, but what if?
Or you try to drive the aperture 1 click past its physical limit? Do you know if the camera has limit switches or is relying on firmware pointing to known values in RAM (pulled from EEPROM at boot) that define the scope of aperture values to control that motor? Maybe it can handle a few slams at the end of travel, but what if you keep doing it by mistake?
Or you use a mode to leave the LCD backlight on while the flash caps recharge (normally the LCD backlight is off) and you fry the power supply in the camera because you sourced too much current?
Or you use a mode to drive the lens into the extended position, but somehow the hacked firmware ignores the limit switch for the little lens cover door and tries to run it at the same time? Scraaaaape.....
Don't get me wrong, this looks freakin' cool! But to presume there is zero possibility of damage seem naive to me.
The complicated series of maneuvers in the summary is challenging for a 2-year old as well, and takes months or years to perfect. The smoothness of the activity to an adult is based upon years of practice. I mention this because the article doesn't seem to mention that even with a bijillion sensors (even tied directly into the brain stem) and lots of axis/control that the learning curve would be shortened.
A well-trained backhoe operator can do amazing things whereas a newbie would be hard-pressed to deal with one axis at a time.
I think the methods they talk about are great, and there must be a need for better bio-feedback or they wouldn't be doing it, but I would love to see a discussion about how older tech takes X years to master and newer takes Y. I wonder if they'll be different? Not that it matters to a person with this need - they'd want the one that givers them the most sensations.
Umm... take the fan off the heat sink and miraculously, it still makes a lot of noise.
Fan noise comes from several places: the bearings in the fan (how many, what construction, what tolerance and spacing, what lubrication, etc), the tiny-ness of the blades, and the RPM it spins at. A small fraction of the noise might be from the air pathways of the heat sink, but it is not the loudest part in my experience.
I'm sure Radiohead's previous label is just crying over all of the back catalog purchases this is likely to make them.
Oh wait...
This could just be a brilliant strategy to keep an old catalog alive a little longer, too. Oh and Radiohead is releasing this album on CD in a few months. How many will buy it again? If so, why? 'Cause the DL was crappy?
There is as much business strategy here as there is "music to the masses," people.
In the Webs current state the ads are what is supporting the production of most of the content you see.
But is most content good? You could be arguing for better content that has more worth (and value), not low value content that requires ads to support its existence. By blocking ads I'm saying "your content is NOT worth my extra time on your ad." The answer isn't find another skeezy way to serve me the same ad. The answer is make your content balance with the ads such that I'll consume both! Better yet, make your content so amazing I'd buy it outright! DVD sales of TV shows anyone?
What happens when that support gets pulled out from under the web site owners?
They try a new business model that isn't based on a poor content to ad ratio. Use Wikipedia, IMDb, and Google as a reference, not X10.com.
(Webmasters could get around the issue by inserting the ads directly in to the content instead of having them served by a third party.)
Are you saying that content generators might have to work harder to get me to view their ad-riddled content in a manner more palatable to me? Why, yes, I'd like that. I'm sorry they can't see that themselves. That would fall into the category of "not my fault." Generic annoying flashing banner/skyscrapers are content providers trying to make a quick buck on little work. I can't support that business model.
Most of the content I consume is NOT advertisement-based, interestingly. And I don't use Adblocking stuff. I just don't consume ad-riddled content! Who do I make my theft check out to, exactly?
Actually I didn't preview and didn't notice that slashcode ate the line between the last 2 which said, "And then he winged it against a wall and it shattered."
I shouldn't have used "" - hmm greater than and less than signs just don't like to appear.
Slashdot Mirror
Congratulations! You just justified slavery!
You're looking in the wrong direction. Everyone knows they end up in the hozone layer.
Done.
If your email is proximate to you via this phone, regardless of network mechanism, then it is proximate to them. If you can "grab it immediately," so can they. Anything you have immediate access to could have been used to commit the crime you were arrested for. If there is a bomb procedure you were referring to in your email on your phone, regardless of network delivery mechanism, then it is proximate to them precisely because it is also proximate to you. Seems simple, really (when things seem simple, I'm usually missing something). I don't necessarily like it, but it is logical. I can easily hear a Supreme Court Justice asking their "obvious" questions on this topic: "Was the smart phone with them when they were arrested? Was there any reason to suspect the phone might have been used to facilitate the crime they were arrested for? Does it really matter, on a network protocol level or other digital machination method, how the phone may have been used to facilitate the crime they were arrested for?"
Really? Hmm...
To this day I cant understand why anyone would buy a hybrid.
I see this a lot, and it always bugs me. I own a Ford hybrid., and I am *far* from a rich person (actively saving!).
Perhaps you can't understand because you've limited your sense of value to $$$. You've made some fine responsible financial decisions. I try to. For example as a single parent it is imperative to me to have life insurance instead of faster internet or cable TV or something like WoW. I probably would enjoy those things, but like you I made different value assessments.
I will admit to a fleeting feeling of smug superiority when I first took my car off the lot. Perhaps you get the same feeling from your choices (else why post them on /.?). But my happiness comes from other reasons, too.
Driving a vehicle with a partially electric drive train is fun! Some people like J-shifters and 5000 HP. I like smooth acceleration, an ECVT (shifting! how quaint!), and 2 power sources. I've had exciting experiences driving in all-electric mode in snowstorms with electric brakes (no mechanical/hydraulic linkage from foot to pads). I am proud of supporting an American company's venture into alternative drive trains. I am giddy that my car cost Ford more to make than I paid for it (I was one of the first). Near real-time status of the car's performance to this day teaches me better driving habits. Having 120VAC on board is awesome. I have future dreams of a plug-in conversion.
All of that joy helped me tolerate things others wouldn't in addition to the hybrid premium: firmware killing power-steering in the cold (Software! Fixed steering! Just ... wow.), electric motors that could simply not power out of some situations like going backwards up steep icy hills (only FrontWD and electric going backwards), worse mileage and battery performance below zero (I'm near your latitude, to your east). All of that prepped me for my next desired vehicle in a few years - an all-electric of some kind. I know what I'm getting myself into.
Lots of my choices, like reducing carbon-in-carbon-out, demonstrating to my child responsible decisions over popular ones, and re-learning how to drive very economically in any vehicle could have been had with a car like yours. But I would have missed out on the other things that gave me joy and experiences that I value. This car gives me pleasure every single day I drive it (biking to work more days now). Some people get that from more money in the bank, living uber-frugal, or driving dual-DVD playing SUVs to take the boat to the lake once a year. I can understand why anyone would make those decisions. I just make my own.
Do you mean the "netbook" edition? Is that what I should install on my regular looking laptop to get working power management? Or should I use the desktop edition that has a picture of a regular looking laptop next to it? 'Cause I'm not fucking blind, but still am confused ...
But he's still on dial up and honestly 'discovering' the internet is very difficult when you have to wait 3 minutes to go somewhere.
"Where do you want too slow today?" (R)
There will always be a complainer until Apple releases every song ever, including bootlegs, in Ogg, MP3, AAC, Flac, and ten other formats, and change the iPod to support all of the same, and make the iPod a 3G wireless device that has a built in BitTorrent client to grab the files quicker, and they cook you dinner and do your laundry too.
What breaks my parents Windows PC isn't their use - it's OTHER people: other family members, wacky in-laws, visitors, well-meaning friends, grand-kids (aged 4 to 40), neighbors.
I find I am often building a machine a COMMUNITY will use. If it isn't a Windows machine, then someone in the community will eventually talk them into Windows (and botch the install and lose all their pictures - been there). When some other "expert" tells them how to do something, they think they are saving *me* time by letting them! Almost never works out that way, though...
So I setup the Windows machine as best I can such that anybody can sit down and use it. That means Windows and lots of good practices. Make a locked-down visitors account, etc. (much good stuff in other posts). If people sit down and the machine just works they are way less tempted to try and break it.
For example I always install iTunes and WMP in ways that are non-nagging and safe. I used to install Winamp and hide WMP, but then iTunes would get installed by SOMEBODY and someone else would try Windows Media Player and enable default DRM crap thereby breaking iTunes, and the RealPlayer would get on there and break it all over again - result = me doing tech support. So I set it up the right way and when they use it, it just works (even RealPlayer!) and they aren't tempted to "fix" it better. Been quite stable this way and my parents don't have to play PC cop or Ubuntu Guru for their extended family and friends. I get the occasional toolbar in Firefox you don't want, but their machine is often the most workable of their community.
Ubuntu would NOT work for their community. Neither I nor my folks can educate them all. Unfortunately the same is true of the Mac. I use all 3 OSes, BTW, and prefer Ubuntu for myself.
If your parents have no friends or family, then, by all means, set them up with Ubuntu or a Mac. But if they are a community hub like mine are, you're best bet is to cater to the community and enable it (in a sand-boxed way) to work the way they expect and that's Windows, done right.
Better than Wolf in many ways is Tremulous.
http://www.tremulous.net/
I've run the PCs at a a gaming convention for several years and have had Wolf there every year for the past 4. This year I tried Tremulous. Most everyone, especially the 13-16 year-olds really enjoyed it. Many said, "Way better than Wolf!" We even had girls playing!
It ran on more aged hardware much better than Wolf did. Higher FPS. Snappier. Ran on meh MacBooks with Intel graphics quite acceptably. Has enough newness with the aliens so it's not a same-old same-old FPS. Some RTS elements. I like it.
Hopefully movie theaters and restaurants do it next.
Smart man, Mr. Malda. Knows exactly what he's doing. A very well done little editorial to make sure the article gets a few hundred more comments.
I'm usually very tolerant of editors here, but this one caught me as blatant.
http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm2500
Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses.
A good generic file comparison tool I've used is Beyond Compare:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/
Has a 30-day trial and a reasonable cost.
Why I'm replying to your ungrateful and horrible impoliteness is beyond me, though. I really like how you didn't say that virtualization wouldn't work in your original question, nor did you mention the scenario/target audience, yet you are insulting those who couldn't read your mind. Well done!
And what if they've conquered death from disease or old age? Still gettin' all instincty?
Speculate away!
I purchased World of Goo (by 2D Boy) this past weekend and it rocks. Nothing wrong with 2D games (many flash games are) if they are playable.
Simple understandable games (like Goo) are often better in 3D and more instantly accessible. Limiting the required axes gets you to the game faster. Not having wacky 3D cams whipsawing your perspective around is nice, too. Party games are mostly 2D. Even Wii Sports is mostly 2D, really. I think that would be considered mass market and successful, wouldn't you?
Clearly it should have been tagged: correlationisnotcowsation
They have their reasons.
One is physical (see my post below) - the way you get the LCD image in an SLR is via a prism in the viewfinder (light from your subject is split between your eye and the LCD watcher). When the mirror flips up so the light can hit the main CCD/CMOS imager instead of your eye, well there is no longer any light going to the viewfinder or the prism where the LCD grabber lives.
One could be a reduction in power usage. LCD backlights take power. So do shutters and CCDs. At the moment of exposure, the power goes where it is needed.
Another could be processing power. Rather than drive the LCD, all of the camera's CPU is dedicated to the task at hand which is to get the exposure correct very quickly. High end SLRs will favor reaction time (reduced lag time) over live chimping because the moment of capture is more important than anything else. Low-end point-n-shoots favor creature features over lag time and that's usually why they suck for lag.
There may be more, but those come easily to mind.
A method that is used to get live preview on SLRs is a prism either in the viewfinder or in place of the mirror.
Canon had a film camera years ago that used the prism-instead-of-a-mirror method. The benefit was you never lost the image in the viewfinder and the camera could do 10 FPS (which was amazing back then). The drawback was it cost you 1 to 2 stops worth of light.
You are mostly correct.
On Canon SLRs the shutter blades travel as you describe. As the shutter speed gets faster, the delay between when the first/front curtain fires and the second/rear curtain fires gets shorter and shorter. At shutter speeds faster than X-sync (fastest shutter speed usable with flash), both curtains can be moving at the same time leaving a narrow slit between them. The width of that moving slit is effectively the shutter speed. The curtains always move at the same speed, just the delay between when they "fire" is altered.
On some more recent Nikons, the same is true up to 1/250, but then the imager becomes the gate. At shutter speeds faster than X-sync, the shutters stay open as if they were set to 1/250 even if you are at 1/8000. The imager simply captures for less time.
And on some Nikon cameras LCD shutters are being used.
It is a changing world for good old focal plane shutters.
The risk of screwing up your camera comes from potentially feeding it a parameter outside of it's safety zone.
For instance what if there were a RAM mode in the hacked firmware for firing the flash at a rate faster than the camera's default firmware would allow. You try it for that super cool skateboard picture and wonder why your flash Fresnel is brown and smoking after the fact. Granted the caps shouldn't be able to do that, but what if?
Or you try to drive the aperture 1 click past its physical limit? Do you know if the camera has limit switches or is relying on firmware pointing to known values in RAM (pulled from EEPROM at boot) that define the scope of aperture values to control that motor? Maybe it can handle a few slams at the end of travel, but what if you keep doing it by mistake?
Or you use a mode to leave the LCD backlight on while the flash caps recharge (normally the LCD backlight is off) and you fry the power supply in the camera because you sourced too much current?
Or you use a mode to drive the lens into the extended position, but somehow the hacked firmware ignores the limit switch for the little lens cover door and tries to run it at the same time? Scraaaaape.....
Don't get me wrong, this looks freakin' cool! But to presume there is zero possibility of damage seem naive to me.
The complicated series of maneuvers in the summary is challenging for a 2-year old as well, and takes months or years to perfect. The smoothness of the activity to an adult is based upon years of practice. I mention this because the article doesn't seem to mention that even with a bijillion sensors (even tied directly into the brain stem) and lots of axis/control that the learning curve would be shortened.
A well-trained backhoe operator can do amazing things whereas a newbie would be hard-pressed to deal with one axis at a time.
I think the methods they talk about are great, and there must be a need for better bio-feedback or they wouldn't be doing it, but I would love to see a discussion about how older tech takes X years to master and newer takes Y. I wonder if they'll be different? Not that it matters to a person with this need - they'd want the one that givers them the most sensations.
Umm ... take the fan off the heat sink and miraculously, it still makes a lot of noise.
Fan noise comes from several places: the bearings in the fan (how many, what construction, what tolerance and spacing, what lubrication, etc), the tiny-ness of the blades, and the RPM it spins at. A small fraction of the noise might be from the air pathways of the heat sink, but it is not the loudest part in my experience.
I'm sure Radiohead's previous label is just crying over all of the back catalog purchases this is likely to make them.
Oh wait...
This could just be a brilliant strategy to keep an old catalog alive a little longer, too. Oh and Radiohead is releasing this album on CD in a few months. How many will buy it again? If so, why? 'Cause the DL was crappy?
There is as much business strategy here as there is "music to the masses," people.
In the Webs current state the ads are what is supporting the production of most of the content you see.
But is most content good? You could be arguing for better content that has more worth (and value), not low value content that requires ads to support its existence. By blocking ads I'm saying "your content is NOT worth my extra time on your ad." The answer isn't find another skeezy way to serve me the same ad. The answer is make your content balance with the ads such that I'll consume both! Better yet, make your content so amazing I'd buy it outright! DVD sales of TV shows anyone?
What happens when that support gets pulled out from under the web site owners?
They try a new business model that isn't based on a poor content to ad ratio. Use Wikipedia, IMDb, and Google as a reference, not X10.com.
(Webmasters could get around the issue by inserting the ads directly in to the content instead of having them served by a third party.)
Are you saying that content generators might have to work harder to get me to view their ad-riddled content in a manner more palatable to me? Why, yes, I'd like that. I'm sorry they can't see that themselves. That would fall into the category of "not my fault." Generic annoying flashing banner/skyscrapers are content providers trying to make a quick buck on little work. I can't support that business model.
Most of the content I consume is NOT advertisement-based, interestingly. And I don't use Adblocking stuff. I just don't consume ad-riddled content! Who do I make my theft check out to, exactly?
Stoner? Ha!
Actually I didn't preview and didn't notice that slashcode ate the line between the last 2 which said, "And then he winged it against a wall and it shattered."
I shouldn't have used "" - hmm greater than and less than signs just don't like to appear.