I work for a public university. The people who are accountable for the equipment budget and the people who pay the light bill never talk.
As a student, I worked at several of the computer labs at a large university (40,000 students). One late night when I was closing down, I thought to myself how silly it was to keep the CRT monitors powered on. This was before things automatically shut-off. So I went around to about 200 computers and shut-off the monitors. The next day I got in trouble by my manager...they didn't like my idea at all and didn't care about the heat or electricity savings. Apparently going around to turn them back on in the morning was too much work! I figure for about 6 years (before the advent of auto-shutoff CRTs and LCDs), this university ran > 1000 CRTs 24/7. Anybody care to guestimate how much electricity they could have saved over this time period?
You don't give Boeing enough credit. They were the first to create a pressurized cabin. Sorry, but the French (or any Europeans, not even Germany) had nothing comparable to the WWII bombers that Boeing manufactured. The British Lancaster maybe, but nobody else.
The Boeing 707 was the Model T of aviation.
Yes, Airbus is impressive but give Boeing some credit too, and when it comes to commercial aviation, they have been in business for effectively 20 years instead of 50.
Remember that Airbus is the new kid on the block. Boeing has been manufacturing pressurized jet planes for 50 years.
Boeing planes are safe. Airbus planes are safe too, but there is the concern of long-term performance of carbon fiber. Some pilots refuse to fly Airbus because of the carbon-fiber structure, but I tend to believe this is probably due to national pride rather than sound decision-making.
Pardon the interruption, but I've never used a virus scanner/firewall with Windows XP/Windows 2000.
OpenBSD (as a firewall/router) and some general common sense (while security Windows) can go a long way.
You are not alone. I use neither as well. But I'm not 100% foolproof. A couple years ago my DSL went down so I dialed up to my ISP using a modem. Of course my telephone modem wasn't connected to my DSL router/firewall and I got MS-Blaster within 10 minutes. But it was harmless and I removed it within another 5 minutes.
So in the last 10 years, I've never lost any data due to viruses or trojans or whatever, I use Microsoft products, and I do not use any kind of anti-virus.
Yes, these photos are B&W and are toned in either selenium or original sepia.
In modern accelerated lifetime testing, Fuji Crystal Archive paper is said to last for > 100 years with minimal color shifts.
Early color papers were lousy...even up into the 80s. Then Fuji changed the ball-game by coming out with new papers in the mid-80s. Kodak has been playing catch-up ever since, but their "Endura" lineup of photographic paper does quite well.
On the other hand, Kodachome slides are tested to last for 200 years in dark storage. Kodachrome is probably the first-ever consumer color film and came out 50 years ago! Unfornately Kodachrome is almost killed off with only 2-3 labs in the world that can process it.
It will be a looongg time before a digital CCD can match the quality of a drum-scanned 4x5" piece of film. Even with a cheap $300 flatbed scanner at 2400 DPI, you get a 135 megapixel image with stunning quality.
Has digital surpassed 35mm film? Sure except in rare circumstances where Velvia still retains more detail.
Your last sentence makes you a troll. But I'll answer you anyways.
The U.S. educates every child. Now take Japan for example. If a child doesn't do well at age 9, then he or she is chosen to attend a trade school and doesn't receive a general education. So the dumber ones aren't tested skewing these silly world-wide comparisons. If this same system were applied to myself, I would not be in a PhD program at a top-ten University.
In addition to dropping the free version, Bitmover is refusing to sell even commercial licenses to the OSDL or it's employees, which includes Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton.
There is probably some law against this somewhere. Companies buy competing products ALL THE TIME to evaluate and steal ideas. Anybody else have other examples of a company refusing to sell a product to a certain customer?
I used to work at Motorola and we would, at times, have to bring an entire debugging setup out in the field. A van, with the phone test board, workstation, and logic analyzer all hooked up.
To have all of my digital pictures. 100 years would be nice. Just set a reasonable price and I'll buy it.
I suggest picking out your favorites and get them printed onto Fuji Crystal Archive paper. These will last for your grandkids to view in case the digital bits are lost somehow.
Personally, I bought the negatives from my wedding photographer and made several silver halide prints onto traditional B&W fiber paper. I toned then in selenium. These should last several hundred years assuming no natural disaster.
For color, the most archival film ever developed is from the 40s-- Kodak Kodachrome (yes, the song). You can still buy this film, but Kodak is slowly killing it off even though many say it is superior to anything else out there including Fuji's vaunted Velvia film. I just found my dad's Kodachrome slides from the Vietnam war, hidden at the bottom of a closet, and they are just beautiful and incredible.
Inkjets are not there. Sorry. Manufacturers make many claims, but even the Epson Ultrachrome inks do not last as long as Fuji Crystal Archive.
Japanese schools work better than ours because they are extremely competitive, do not refuse to provide higher level instruction to those who excel and because they innovate. The parents there also regard school very highly and go out of their way to make sure their kids are competitive.
No, the problem is that every student in the U.S. gets a secondary education (high school). On the other hand, Japan weeds out the very best at an earlier age. A kid's future is decided before he or she grows up.
The Minolta 7 and 7D SLR cameras have a motion sensor so that the orientation of the LCD changes depending on whether the camera is held landscape or portrait.
It also automatically turns on when you raise the camera to your eye.
No, OO doesn't do this properly. I wish I still had the URL for the feature request, but it is recent.
The problem with OO is that you have to manually create the "reference" in order to cross-reference. And then I'm not sure if it automatically updates the numbering too.
I find it funny, b/c my friends are still shelling out hundreds of dollars for M$ Office. At this point, I've decided never to pay again for an Office suite as long as Openoffice.org is around. There's no point. What I do not get, is why people are still acting stuck up when they say they use "M$ Office Professional." So, you can mail merge...OH wait OO.org can do that too...and you can play Pac Man in Excel...good for you...lol.
Maybe your friends need to be able to cross-reference numbered sections or headings. Maybe your friends need something that can use Bibtex and automatically generate references. That is just 2 very important features that OpenOffice Writer does not have.
Framemaker, Latex, and MS Word are really the only products that are up to the task of authoring something like a PhD thesis.
Open-source advocates should stop saying this. I'm not whining and I choose not to spend my time fixing it. Sorry, I have a family and other hobbies to deal with in my spare time.
If the developers of OpenOffice desire to convert me, and thousands of others who author scholarly works, this is a problem they need to address rather than add some other useless bell & whistle.
In the meantime, I'll continue to happily use Framemaker. However because this product is likely being end-of-lifed by Adobe, I will need to convert to something else at some point. I'd rather not resort to Word even though it has all the features I need.
Cross References are still crap. Until they fix this issue, and I find an addon tool to interface with Bibtex, I cannot use OpenOffice Writer to replace Framemaker (or Latex, or even MS Word).
I need to easily reference numbered sections, figures, and bibliographic entries. The problem is that OpenOffice doesn't automatically create a reference point for numbered sections.
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I work for a public university. The people who are accountable for the equipment budget and the people who pay the light bill never talk.
As a student, I worked at several of the computer labs at a large university (40,000 students). One late night when I was closing down, I thought to myself how silly it was to keep the CRT monitors powered on. This was before things automatically shut-off. So I went around to about 200 computers and shut-off the monitors. The next day I got in trouble by my manager...they didn't like my idea at all and didn't care about the heat or electricity savings. Apparently going around to turn them back on in the morning was too much work! I figure for about 6 years (before the advent of auto-shutoff CRTs and LCDs), this university ran > 1000 CRTs 24/7. Anybody care to guestimate how much electricity they could have saved over this time period?
You don't give Boeing enough credit. They were the first to create a pressurized cabin. Sorry, but the French (or any Europeans, not even Germany) had nothing comparable to the WWII bombers that Boeing manufactured. The British Lancaster maybe, but nobody else.
The Boeing 707 was the Model T of aviation.
Yes, Airbus is impressive but give Boeing some credit too, and when it comes to commercial aviation, they have been in business for effectively 20 years instead of 50.
I did it once a year ago. Found nothing but false-positives. I then deinstalled.
Remember that Airbus is the new kid on the block. Boeing has been manufacturing pressurized jet planes for 50 years.
Boeing planes are safe. Airbus planes are safe too, but there is the concern of long-term performance of carbon fiber. Some pilots refuse to fly Airbus because of the carbon-fiber structure, but I tend to believe this is probably due to national pride rather than sound decision-making.
Pardon the interruption, but I've never used a virus scanner/firewall with Windows XP/Windows 2000.
OpenBSD (as a firewall/router) and some general common sense (while security Windows) can go a long way.
You are not alone. I use neither as well. But I'm not 100% foolproof. A couple years ago my DSL went down so I dialed up to my ISP using a modem. Of course my telephone modem wasn't connected to my DSL router/firewall and I got MS-Blaster within 10 minutes. But it was harmless and I removed it within another 5 minutes.
So in the last 10 years, I've never lost any data due to viruses or trojans or whatever, I use Microsoft products, and I do not use any kind of anti-virus.
Yes, these photos are B&W and are toned in either selenium or original sepia.
In modern accelerated lifetime testing, Fuji Crystal Archive paper is said to last for > 100 years with minimal color shifts.
Early color papers were lousy...even up into the 80s. Then Fuji changed the ball-game by coming out with new papers in the mid-80s. Kodak has been playing catch-up ever since, but their "Endura" lineup of photographic paper does quite well.
On the other hand, Kodachome slides are tested to last for 200 years in dark storage. Kodachrome is probably the first-ever consumer color film and came out 50 years ago! Unfornately Kodachrome is almost killed off with only 2-3 labs in the world that can process it.
I have 100-year old family photographs that look brand new. Silver-halide fiber-based paper is stable and time tested.
I have no doubt they will look fine for another 100 years.
In fact I personally bought the negatives from my wedding photographer and made prints onto fiber-based paper and then toned them in selenium.
It will be a looongg time before a digital CCD can match the quality of a drum-scanned 4x5" piece of film. Even with a cheap $300 flatbed scanner at 2400 DPI, you get a 135 megapixel image with stunning quality.
Has digital surpassed 35mm film? Sure except in rare circumstances where Velvia still retains more detail.
Huh? BitKeeper was simply a nice wrapper around SCCS which has been around for 20 years.
Your last sentence makes you a troll. But I'll answer you anyways.
The U.S. educates every child. Now take Japan for example. If a child doesn't do well at age 9, then he or she is chosen to attend a trade school and doesn't receive a general education. So the dumber ones aren't tested skewing these silly world-wide comparisons. If this same system were applied to myself, I would not be in a PhD program at a top-ten University.
Do all of these countries provide a guaranteed public education to every child under the age of 18?
What are the immigration rates (illegal or legal) of all of these countries?
Which students are tested?
Answer these questions and I might draw a meaningful conclusion from these numbers.
In addition to dropping the free version, Bitmover is refusing to sell even commercial licenses to the OSDL or it's employees, which includes Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton.
There is probably some law against this somewhere. Companies buy competing products ALL THE TIME to evaluate and steal ideas. Anybody else have other examples of a company refusing to sell a product to a certain customer?
I used to work at Motorola and we would, at times, have to bring an entire debugging setup out in the field. A van, with the phone test board, workstation, and logic analyzer all hooked up.
To have all of my digital pictures. 100 years would be nice. Just set a reasonable price and I'll buy it.
I suggest picking out your favorites and get them printed onto Fuji Crystal Archive paper. These will last for your grandkids to view in case the digital bits are lost somehow.
Personally, I bought the negatives from my wedding photographer and made several silver halide prints onto traditional B&W fiber paper. I toned then in selenium. These should last several hundred years assuming no natural disaster.
For color, the most archival film ever developed is from the 40s-- Kodak Kodachrome (yes, the song). You can still buy this film, but Kodak is slowly killing it off even though many say it is superior to anything else out there including Fuji's vaunted Velvia film. I just found my dad's Kodachrome slides from the Vietnam war, hidden at the bottom of a closet, and they are just beautiful and incredible.
Inkjets are not there. Sorry. Manufacturers make many claims, but even the Epson Ultrachrome inks do not last as long as Fuji Crystal Archive.
It seems to me that Apple are doing versioning right.
The way it should work is x.y.z
z: Bug fixes
y: New features
x: Backwards compatibility break
Does that mean Windows XP should really be called Windows 3.15.8734?
Exactly. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe our standardized test scores are compared against the elite who aren't dropped into a trade school.
Japanese schools work better than ours because they are extremely competitive, do not refuse to provide higher level instruction to those who excel and because they innovate. The parents there also regard school very highly and go out of their way to make sure their kids are competitive.
No, the problem is that every student in the U.S. gets a secondary education (high school). On the other hand, Japan weeds out the very best at an earlier age. A kid's future is decided before he or she grows up.
The Minolta 7 and 7D SLR cameras have a motion sensor so that the orientation of the LCD changes depending on whether the camera is held landscape or portrait.
It also automatically turns on when you raise the camera to your eye.
Search for "cow" on wikipedia. Of course you will find a blurb that a cow is a female of the bovine family. It also says:
COW is also an acronym for copy-on-write, a technique in computer science
I mean come on! There are a zillion acronyms for the word cow.
Wikipedia is edited by too many techy people and this could hurt its reputation.
I wonder if somebody could break into Windows 2003 in the same amount of time?
There are likely hidden exploits in both OSes, but these things take time to find. Stumbling upon something by luck is quite common.
Getting another bachelors degree is foolish.
M.S., MBA, JD, whatever.
Even a MFA is better than another bachelors.
No, OO doesn't do this properly. I wish I still had the URL for the feature request, but it is recent.
The problem with OO is that you have to manually create the "reference" in order to cross-reference. And then I'm not sure if it automatically updates the numbering too.
I find it funny, b/c my friends are still shelling out hundreds of dollars for M$ Office. At this point, I've decided never to pay again for an Office suite as long as Openoffice.org is around. There's no point. What I do not get, is why people are still acting stuck up when they say they use "M$ Office Professional." So, you can mail merge...OH wait OO.org can do that too...and you can play Pac Man in Excel...good for you...lol.
Maybe your friends need to be able to cross-reference numbered sections or headings. Maybe your friends need something that can use Bibtex and automatically generate references. That is just 2 very important features that OpenOffice Writer does not have.
Framemaker, Latex, and MS Word are really the only products that are up to the task of authoring something like a PhD thesis.
Open-source advocates should stop saying this. I'm not whining and I choose not to spend my time fixing it. Sorry, I have a family and other hobbies to deal with in my spare time.
If the developers of OpenOffice desire to convert me, and thousands of others who author scholarly works, this is a problem they need to address rather than add some other useless bell & whistle.
In the meantime, I'll continue to happily use Framemaker. However because this product is likely being end-of-lifed by Adobe, I will need to convert to something else at some point. I'd rather not resort to Word even though it has all the features I need.
Cross References are still crap. Until they fix this issue, and I find an addon tool to interface with Bibtex, I cannot use OpenOffice Writer to replace Framemaker (or Latex, or even MS Word).
I need to easily reference numbered sections, figures, and bibliographic entries. The problem is that OpenOffice doesn't automatically create a reference point for numbered sections.