Umm, is that with unmetered calls? Here in the U.S. we don't have per-minute charges. Five hours of web per week under your plan, and you're already over $40. Sounds like a rotten deal to me.
Yeah, I sometimes wish CMOS sensors had never been invented. Then maybe they could have gotten the price point of CCD down so far they'd be just as inexpensive.
CMOS sensors do work really well in good lighting. Which means 90% of the time you'd actually need to use the camera...except the other 10% they are useless.
You are about five years behind. Why don't you actually go look at cameras for sale and read their stats? The sensors are capable of 640x480 and even 1024x768 sometimes. I happen to have used a 640x480 webcam, and verified that the resolution was not interpolated, over three years ago.
The reason is that with the progression of digital camera resolutions, the high-pixel-count imaging sensors are rock-bottom priced and find their way into webcams. QCIF sensors are used only in the dirt-cheap bottom end devices like Barbie cams and cruddy Logitech freebie models.
Much higher resolution? No. A lot of USB cameras out there have native 640x480 resolution, which is better than anything you could possibly get out of an NTSC frame.
However I do agree about the flexibility of input sources, as well as the importance of CCD versus CMOS. I have a nearly antique Connectix QuickCam VC, which was CCD until Logitech bought the line and made them CMOS. Though the resolution isn't great, it does give very clear pictures even in low light. The case broke long ago, so I built the guts into a little pan/tilt base I hacked together one afternoon.
Yeah, I'm actually pretty certain that if I was a member of the crew and NASA was claiming the hole couldn't be fixed, I'd be willing to give it a try.
Either that, or install a landing capsule in the Shuttle, similar to the Apollo recovery modules. It would be a way to get down, and the shuttle could be left behind for a later mission to repair.
Go ahead, buy one. Then enjoy the PDA features you'll probably not use all that much, relish the odd looks you'll get while holding a phone up to your ear that rivals the size of 80's police radios, and carry plenty of screen wipes to remove oily smudges from your screen.
Of course my disdain for Treo users is fueled by my hidden jealousy.
How can they tell which bugs are the culprits driving the users crazy every day? Do they monitor large numbers of keys being pressed and map out the physical keyboard layout to determine how hard the users head is smacking into the keyboard?
Go to the Pricelessware site maintained by the alt.comp.freeware Usenet group. On the group, they post and evalute freeware, and the winners make it on to the pricelessware list. Nagware, adware and shareware are frowned upon; the vast majority of the programs listed are no-strings freeware.
Or else fix some of those requirements. The biggest one is the physical access problem; the only mostly secure way to do that is full encryption. And encrypting & decrypting gigabyte files will certainly get in the way of getting work done.
No internet access to secure PCs, no digital media allowed in or out of the secure area. And make the engineers understand that, if they are found responsible for data escaping, it means not only their job but their career as well, and quite possibily a large chunk of money.
If your data is worth that much, if the company's future depends on it, you cannot afford to take any risks. Hire an expert security consultant to examine YOUR system and implement security safeguards and procedures. You will have to give up an amount of conveniences and features in order to achieve security. Don't kid yourself that there is a transparent way to do this.
I absolutely hate these, if only because I had the idea about two years before they came out, and actually half-constructed a prototype before getting myself buried in college.
They have already had that idea. They are running promotions where you get a mailing asking you to choose which type of soda/pop/Coke you prefer, and they will send you a free 12-pack. However in fine print it reads that you agree to accept telemarketing calls.
I don't know exactly how this works, but if you once slip up and do something like this, have you blown it for good? How far can the business relationship clause be taken? I think there should be a way to "reset" your do-not-call status in some way, essentially saying that you wish to have all current "business relationships" to be considered dissolved, and under no circumstances wish to receive solicitations from any company. Because once your name gets into the "business relationship grapevine," can you say "do not call me again" fast enough to keep your number from spreading like the latest royal family gossip?
Both "criticized" and "criticised" are correct. However, do a Google search on both words and pay attention to the numbers: 2,940,000 versus 1,120,000.
We need to kill this stereotype of geeks being worthless spellers, though I am beginning to doubt that it's merely a stereotype.
A compiler will refuse improperly-spelled keywords, and people might do the same to you. Ability to read and write at (what should be) a tenth-grade level will help you in almost every area of your life.
It's justification for doing something about it. My school did not want to completely block access to arbitrary ports, but reducing P2P to 10% practically equates to banning it. If a university has issues with their hardware and bandwidth being used to pirate music, movies, and software...that's their decision. With a big school, you either have to be draconian or submit to anarchy. A smaller school can deal with issues like "but all I have is legal/free/my own music on here."
Maybe Homer Simpson would run Earthstation 5 on the nuclear control system, I don't know. But my point remains that while all of the above are inconvenient, they are not the same as sitting in your office with your morning coffee, and looking up to see an airliner bearing down on your stapler. Or getting your throat slit with a razor. See the difference? Attaching terrorism to computers is only another way to raise up fear and hype in this community too, and welcome more control of it. I realize that we who work with computers would like to think it is so important as to classify an attack as terrorism, but it just does not have that whole aspect of terror. Terror is looking out the window and seeing all your kids killed by a rocket-propelled grenade on your front lawn. Do you care about the fridge not working at that point?
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Umm, is that with unmetered calls? Here in the U.S. we don't have per-minute charges. Five hours of web per week under your plan, and you're already over $40. Sounds like a rotten deal to me.
Yeah, I sometimes wish CMOS sensors had never been invented. Then maybe they could have gotten the price point of CCD down so far they'd be just as inexpensive.
CMOS sensors do work really well in good lighting. Which means 90% of the time you'd actually need to use the camera...except the other 10% they are useless.
I never addressed any part of your statement referring to speed. I only discussed resolution.
That said, naturally USB 1.1 even in Full Speed won't do 640x480 at 30fps. But USB 2.0 is getting pretty common, so you could try this camera for $99.
You are about five years behind. Why don't you actually go look at cameras for sale and read their stats? The sensors are capable of 640x480 and even 1024x768 sometimes. I happen to have used a 640x480 webcam, and verified that the resolution was not interpolated, over three years ago.
The reason is that with the progression of digital camera resolutions, the high-pixel-count imaging sensors are rock-bottom priced and find their way into webcams. QCIF sensors are used only in the dirt-cheap bottom end devices like Barbie cams and cruddy Logitech freebie models.
Much higher resolution? No. A lot of USB cameras out there have native 640x480 resolution, which is better than anything you could possibly get out of an NTSC frame.
However I do agree about the flexibility of input sources, as well as the importance of CCD versus CMOS. I have a nearly antique Connectix QuickCam VC, which was CCD until Logitech bought the line and made them CMOS. Though the resolution isn't great, it does give very clear pictures even in low light. The case broke long ago, so I built the guts into a little pan/tilt base I hacked together one afternoon.
Yeah, I'm actually pretty certain that if I was a member of the crew and NASA was claiming the hole couldn't be fixed, I'd be willing to give it a try.
Either that, or install a landing capsule in the Shuttle, similar to the Apollo recovery modules. It would be a way to get down, and the shuttle could be left behind for a later mission to repair.
"...click Yes when you are prompted to restart your computer."
How did I know that was coming?
I know what they look like, the sunglasses don't change my opinion. Unless those are Barbie sunglasses or something.
Go ahead, buy one. Then enjoy the PDA features you'll probably not use all that much, relish the odd looks you'll get while holding a phone up to your ear that rivals the size of 80's police radios, and carry plenty of screen wipes to remove oily smudges from your screen.
Of course my disdain for Treo users is fueled by my hidden jealousy.
How can they tell which bugs are the culprits driving the users crazy every day? Do they monitor large numbers of keys being pressed and map out the physical keyboard layout to determine how hard the users head is smacking into the keyboard?
What would give you that idea? And what kind of sicko does what you have done for the past few months? I think you need to seek professional help.
Go to the Pricelessware site maintained by the alt.comp.freeware Usenet group. On the group, they post and evalute freeware, and the winners make it on to the pricelessware list. Nagware, adware and shareware are frowned upon; the vast majority of the programs listed are no-strings freeware.
Mmm, forget to click "Post Anonymously" this time? I do appreciate knowing who my stalker is now.
See you around!
Or else fix some of those requirements. The biggest one is the physical access problem; the only mostly secure way to do that is full encryption. And encrypting & decrypting gigabyte files will certainly get in the way of getting work done.
No internet access to secure PCs, no digital media allowed in or out of the secure area. And make the engineers understand that, if they are found responsible for data escaping, it means not only their job but their career as well, and quite possibily a large chunk of money.
If your data is worth that much, if the company's future depends on it, you cannot afford to take any risks. Hire an expert security consultant to examine YOUR system and implement security safeguards and procedures. You will have to give up an amount of conveniences and features in order to achieve security. Don't kid yourself that there is a transparent way to do this.
For about $55 you can get your own domain, web space, SSH, FTP, scripting, stats, and unlimited email addresses that don't have @yahoo.com at the end.
"WHAT are these random brown spots doing all over this otherwise PERFECTLY GOOD roll of edited film?!?"
"Well, boss, those are coffee...*cough* I mean copy protection. Yeah, I specifically designed them to interfere with digital compression!"
"Good man! Guess who's getting a bonus this Christmas!"
I absolutely hate these, if only because I had the idea about two years before they came out, and actually half-constructed a prototype before getting myself buried in college.
They have already had that idea. They are running promotions where you get a mailing asking you to choose which type of soda/pop/Coke you prefer, and they will send you a free 12-pack. However in fine print it reads that you agree to accept telemarketing calls.
I don't know exactly how this works, but if you once slip up and do something like this, have you blown it for good? How far can the business relationship clause be taken? I think there should be a way to "reset" your do-not-call status in some way, essentially saying that you wish to have all current "business relationships" to be considered dissolved, and under no circumstances wish to receive solicitations from any company. Because once your name gets into the "business relationship grapevine," can you say "do not call me again" fast enough to keep your number from spreading like the latest royal family gossip?
Both "criticized" and "criticised" are correct. However, do a Google search on both words and pay attention to the numbers: 2,940,000 versus 1,120,000.
...the spelling is "criticized."
We need to kill this stereotype of geeks being worthless spellers, though I am beginning to doubt that it's merely a stereotype.
A compiler will refuse improperly-spelled keywords, and people might do the same to you. Ability to read and write at (what should be) a tenth-grade level will help you in almost every area of your life.
I actually had someone email me with " 'a small highly-acclaimed private engineering school' ;)"
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just curious, is this harvey mudd college?
Those Harvey Mudd guys, always taking our glory!
If anyone asks him, it's a big metal flowerpot. See? Even has the little drainage hole so the dirt doesn't get waterlogged.
It's justification for doing something about it. My school did not want to completely block access to arbitrary ports, but reducing P2P to 10% practically equates to banning it. If a university has issues with their hardware and bandwidth being used to pirate music, movies, and software...that's their decision. With a big school, you either have to be draconian or submit to anarchy. A smaller school can deal with issues like "but all I have is legal/free/my own music on here."
Maybe Homer Simpson would run Earthstation 5 on the nuclear control system, I don't know. But my point remains that while all of the above are inconvenient, they are not the same as sitting in your office with your morning coffee, and looking up to see an airliner bearing down on your stapler. Or getting your throat slit with a razor. See the difference? Attaching terrorism to computers is only another way to raise up fear and hype in this community too, and welcome more control of it. I realize that we who work with computers would like to think it is so important as to classify an attack as terrorism, but it just does not have that whole aspect of terror. Terror is looking out the window and seeing all your kids killed by a rocket-propelled grenade on your front lawn. Do you care about the fridge not working at that point?
ostensible
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adj.
Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity.
Heh, just trying to be pedantic.