I wholeheartedl agree with everything you have just said (see my other post to this story.) While we're on the subject, does anyone know anywhere where one can purchase retail miniPCI cards?! They aren't 'supposed' to be available to the general public maybe someone here knows someone who knows someone... that's the answer to all our prayers for those of us chained to the shitty Intel pro/2100 WLAN card...
This just is another step in Intel's ploy to rule the wireless market through cheap and underhanded business practices. Not many people know this, or at least I didn't till I started shopping for a laptop 2 days ago, but all new laptops carrying the Centrino designation have to come with an Intel miniPCI WLAN card preinstalled or they cannot be called Centrino. Which is great except that Intel refuses to support Linux on their stinkin' card. (Yes I could goelsewhere, but for the price, speed, and power consumption, Centrino is far and away the best on the market right now.) If you want to monopolize an entire hardware sector, fine--good luck trying. But don't chain me to a stupid Wintel platform because of it. If Intel had their way they'd be the only supplier of WiFi cards within a few short years--then WTF do we do if we're not on Windows?
I hate republicans as much as the next guy, but dude: democrats took more than three times as much money from the entertainment industry as republicans in the 2002 elections. Their number one recipient was some guy from Massachusetts named Kerry, who correct me if I'm wrong doesn't tend to agree too often with Bush and his cronies. In fact, every single congressman who is a Democratic presidential candidate is in the top 5--Edward #3, Lieberman (who favors censoring TV and records, that little sellout whore) #5, Gephardt #1, Kucinich #3. Hell even Dean is second only to W in total dollars received--and he's, technically speaking, no more than an unemployed migrant orator, at the moment!:) So blaming this all on republicans is, I'm sorry, bullshit. Oh and by the way, Gore took $250,000 more from the enterainment industry than Bush in 2000.
First, GTK is a good example of OOP in C only to the extent that such a thing exists. Every attempt I've ever seen has been inelegant and kludgy to the extreme (preprocessor macros for typecasting? Get real.) Then again, QT with it's special MOC 'language extensions' sucks in its own special way too, but not nearly as much.
But lately I've come to realize that this perennial C vs. C++, QT vs. GTK debate is wholely beside the point. Today's mean hardware base is so horrendously overpowered for every application but games that there's no reason to even use a compiled language anymore. To paraphrase ESR, the days of doing your own memory management and type juggling are over for everyone but game and kernel developers. Take any small to medium-sized KDE or Gnome app, rewrite it in Python, and the added overhead and memory usage probably cannot even be measured on a 2-plus GHZ Pentium or Athlon. What I'm really looking forward to is a featureful, Python-native widget library that's comparable to GTK or KDE. Of course some idiot will probably just come out with a Perl-based competitor and we'll have the language jihad all over again. But at least in that case, the winner for anything over 100 lines would be nice and clear cut:)
No offense to your man, but please, don't insult Ralph Nader like that. Having had the fortune to see Nader speak numerous times, and even interview him once, I can say that his political naivete is largely a myth. He would make a fantastic president, one who would do more to advance civic duty and ethics in this country than all since JFK combined. This man has spent the last 40 years waging epic battles with Washington politicians and bureaucrats--how could he not know that game? What makes me admire him is that he chooses not to play it. If by "actual political experience" you mean Kucinich is adept at the black art of dispensing oversimplified, 5-second soundbytes fit for broadcast on the evening news, or dubbing over his campaign ads on CNN with horrific hip-hop music in a laughably pathetic feint towards quote-young voters-unquote, well... I'll vote for the guy that doesn't stoop to that level any day.
That's an excellent and most obvious point. Yet you would not believe the institutional resistance to this idea among the three e-voting OEMs (Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia) to the idea of creating some sort of printed record. They insist on doing it all digital, even though their systems are ridiculously, incredibly insecure--probably because, in the event of a recount, a paper trail would provide concrete proof of how poorly their systems perform. There was an excellent overview of all this in Act One of the latest This American Life. You aren't going to believe your ears when you hear how lame these companies are (esp. Diebold), they to whom we are poised to entrust our most important the most important cornerstone of our democracy.
There are a lot more (and better) MP3 players out there than the iPod. For those of use who would like to listen to our iTunes songs, say, on a solid-state microplayer while jogging, until now we've been shit out of luck. This changes all that. And I should point out that being able to listen to the music you purchased however you choose is a fundamental right that you have as a consumer. Hence this "crack" (I call it an upgrade) is perfectly legal in many countries outside the U.S. Don't let Apple, RIAA, Microsoft, or anyone else tell you different. That you consider yourself "lucky" to be able to play iTunes songs on five devices instead of one only shows how warped the situation is and how effectively big corporations have spun the issue. But don't forget that you inherent posess this right. It isn't given to you by the record company.
The programmer, that is. What is it with nerds and their pathetic OCD spam-complex? My guess is that spam, for a lot of nerds, is like the ultimate unfixable bug. One of the few, if only, undesirable behaviors on the computer they are absolutely powerless to fix, and it just flips them out. But that's supposed to never happen!--computers being, of course, what we all turned to because
Jack Valenti, cleaning up his house last weekend, found $1 million tucked beneath the cushion of one of his diamond-embroidered chaise lounges. He was nonplussed.
I'm not how well a million bucks of advocacy is going to fare against the abysally-deep pockets of the American entertainment industry...
People decry spam because it decreases productivity and costs businesses money. But you know what else decreases productivity and costs businesses money? Their smart employees wasting all day dreaming up new schemes to thwart spammers. Bayesian filter, spam-the-spammers, RBL, it's all quite ingenious, really. But for Christ's sake, gain some perspective. Or use those brain cells for something that matters, at least.
Certainly I can't be the only one out there who feels that this story, which nets about a Slashdot post and a dozen wire stories per day, is getting so blown out of proportion as to become unrecognizable. We're closer to World War III than we've been in 50 years. A couple hundred people a day are getting blown up in various parts of the Middle East. Large parts of India, China, and North Korea are in famine. 40 million people in Africa are dying of AIDS. Yet all I read about is this goddamn Spam problem, which I remind you, is incorporeal. It doesn't, techinically, even exist. So please: take two minutes a day to hit the delete key and then _shut up_ about the state of your inbox. There are more. pressing. issues. out there.
Probably because he's considering doing what I did freshmen year: dropping out of CS/EE completely because I didn't want to spend 60 hrs/wk of the best years of my life staring at some screen. I took up a humanities major, went and studied abroad for more than a year, read books, picked up a few instruments, and in short emerged from college a completely different and more well-rounded person than if I had kept my nose to the engineering grindstone for 4 straight years. All things I never would have been able to do otherwise.
And the funny thing is I still work as a programmer and am (very) gainfully employed! It's not what I want to do with my life, but it helps pay the bills until I finish up my majors and go to grad school or Peace Corps or whatever. Just a small message of hope out there for those who are convinced working in IT entails some huge life sacrifice. It doesn't necessarily. Better yet it's sage wisdom for all those college freshmen I see these days who arrive with a life-plan that they have mapped out since age 8...
Ooh you gotta love OSCP. Here's I think one of the "cheaper" Oracle-certified NFS implementations out there, the NAS8000. Only $39,995 MSRP for a 4U cabinet with a whopping 0mb of included data storage. Compare with the free-as-in-speech NFS implementation that everyone conflates with "the" NFS, as if there were only one, proper noun, singular, and it were just free for the taking. Hah.
Heh all these spare-bedroom Linux hackers these days seem to forget there's like, entire different universes of product line and reliability standards that have nothing to do with some home-brew NFS rigjob. I guess I didn't really learn that lesson either till I spent some time working in the corporate IT world...
Yeah I'll sure do that next time I'm about to fire up AquaMark 3 for some, immersive, pulse-pounding 3D action... although I have to admit I still think the gameplay in AquaMark 2 was a lot better and more balanced, in spite of the older engine. And who who could forget venerable AquaMark I: WaterSpot, which set the standard for 2D sidescrollers back in the early 90s.
Ahh, good old AquaMark. Definitely the most apropos benchmark, and, seeing your point, certainly the one we should all be looking at.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta get back to playing UT 2003, where this chunk of turd is still dominated by ATI's and Nvidia's top-of-the-line, ca. 2001.
The folks in Congress are typically complaining about senseless, gratuitous, and illegal... Military actions conducted by the US tend not to fall into those categories
Stated as fact, but very much a matter of opinion. And Congress doesn't compain because of gratuitous violence in and of itself, but rather because it believes they predispose players to violent, antisocial behavior at a subconscious level. To then turn around and harness that very effect to fill up some recruiting roster is at once cynical, totally lacking inner logic and, yes, hypocritical.
What an ingenious way to snooker thousands of unsuspecting children into signing their lives away to a life of killing. If the KKK, Michigan Militia, or some other militant fringe-group released recruiting software (I think I remember a Tom Clancy book about that), we'd all be watching day 27 of the standoff live on CNN right now. Yet when it's done by the Army, even better with your money, everyone says it's a wonderful recruiting idea. When Mortal Kombat splattered gallons of cartoonish blood on the screen, the very same politicans who are complicit in the development of this game called for that one's censorship. Yet the government itself releases a game that's infinitely more realistic with the goal of getting its players to actually kill in real life, and what's word from Capitol Hill? Free trade with China. Idiots and hypocrits, they...
To kill something it has to be living first, silly. I think even my dog gets that. Organisms which cannot survive independently of their host are not called living, they're called "virii." But then again I equate loss of liberty with sociological death (cf. slavery), so I couldn't in good conscience let any pro-life sites in either, since that would visit a metaphorical death on all those women in America who are no longer free to rule over their own body.
Also if they'd only let in anti-war and anti-death penalty sites, that would be nice too. Meaning block pro-war, pro-death penality sites. Like this one.
Actually, it would not confirm that. Symantec isn't breaking any laws. The ACLU has no legal standing to go after Symantec and any litigation would be a waste of their already stretched resources. So that could be, or more to the point, is, a far better explanation for their hypothetical inaction.
What has been confirmed is your too-typical conservative, knee-jerk reaction to villify icons of the left at every opening, however slight, even when you have no logical foundation for doing so. I'm guessing you watch a lot of O'Reilly.
Guns kill people. Anti-gun lobbies are trying to get less people killed. Internet filters should (that's what they're their for) block pro-killing content, while letting through anti-killing content.
The latest Rebel is mighty tempting, I know. But it still has a CCD that's close to 1/2 the area of a normal 35mm frame. Marketing types try to tell you this is a "focal multiplier" and convince you're getting more zoom for your buck, but what you're really doing is sacrificing versatility. You'd have to spend about $3000 on glass to get anything near wide-angle capability with this new Rebel. So forget about those landscapes. Personally I'd rather spend half that at the outset and get the superior body, the D10.
The second thing that annoys me about this camera is it has been "dumbed down" for no good reason other than to keep the D10 marketable. The only real difference between it and the 300D are some extra control dials and the viewfinder; electronically they're almost identical. Canon knows that a thumb-dial isn't good enough to convince buyers to spend twice as much on the D10, so they just ripped out all the 300D's custom functions. Gutted them. Even though all the electronic capability is their. I don't know about you, but something just bothers me about buying a product that's been lobotomized. I'm half hoping someone will find a way to flash update the 300D with a 10D bios, or something, like they use to do with those HiPoint software RAID controllers, Lite-On CD-Rs, graphics cards, etc.:)
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I wholeheartedl agree with everything you have just said (see my other post to this story.) While we're on the subject, does anyone know anywhere where one can purchase retail miniPCI cards?! They aren't 'supposed' to be available to the general public maybe someone here knows someone who knows someone... that's the answer to all our prayers for those of us chained to the shitty Intel pro/2100 WLAN card...
This just is another step in Intel's ploy to rule the wireless market through cheap and underhanded business practices. Not many people know this, or at least I didn't till I started shopping for a laptop 2 days ago, but all new laptops carrying the Centrino designation have to come with an Intel miniPCI WLAN card preinstalled or they cannot be called Centrino. Which is great except that Intel refuses to support Linux on their stinkin' card. (Yes I could go elsewhere, but for the price, speed, and power consumption, Centrino is far and away the best on the market right now.) If you want to monopolize an entire hardware sector, fine--good luck trying. But don't chain me to a stupid Wintel platform because of it. If Intel had their way they'd be the only supplier of WiFi cards within a few short years--then WTF do we do if we're not on Windows?
'Similar to analagous efforts': redundant and repetitive.
Oh, to spend $250,000 on postsecondary and legal education and still not be able to write at a high school level...
I hate republicans as much as the next guy, but dude: democrats took more than three times as much money from the entertainment industry as republicans in the 2002 elections. Their number one recipient was some guy from Massachusetts named Kerry, who correct me if I'm wrong doesn't tend to agree too often with Bush and his cronies. In fact, every single congressman who is a Democratic presidential candidate is in the top 5--Edward #3, Lieberman (who favors censoring TV and records, that little sellout whore) #5, Gephardt #1, Kucinich #3. Hell even Dean is second only to W in total dollars received--and he's, technically speaking, no more than an unemployed migrant orator, at the moment! :) So blaming this all on republicans is, I'm sorry, bullshit. Oh and by the way, Gore took $250,000 more from the enterainment industry than Bush in 2000.
First, GTK is a good example of OOP in C only to the extent that such a thing exists. Every attempt I've ever seen has been inelegant and kludgy to the extreme (preprocessor macros for typecasting? Get real.) Then again, QT with it's special MOC 'language extensions' sucks in its own special way too, but not nearly as much.
:)
But lately I've come to realize that this perennial C vs. C++, QT vs. GTK debate is wholely beside the point. Today's mean hardware base is so horrendously overpowered for every application but games that there's no reason to even use a compiled language anymore. To paraphrase ESR, the days of doing your own memory management and type juggling are over for everyone but game and kernel developers. Take any small to medium-sized KDE or Gnome app, rewrite it in Python, and the added overhead and memory usage probably cannot even be measured on a 2-plus GHZ Pentium or Athlon. What I'm really looking forward to is a featureful, Python-native widget library that's comparable to GTK or KDE. Of course some idiot will probably just come out with a Perl-based competitor and we'll have the language jihad all over again. But at least in that case, the winner for anything over 100 lines would be nice and clear cut
No offense to your man, but please, don't insult Ralph Nader like that. Having had the fortune to see Nader speak numerous times, and even interview him once, I can say that his political naivete is largely a myth. He would make a fantastic president, one who would do more to advance civic duty and ethics in this country than all since JFK combined. This man has spent the last 40 years waging epic battles with Washington politicians and bureaucrats--how could he not know that game? What makes me admire him is that he chooses not to play it. If by "actual political experience" you mean Kucinich is adept at the black art of dispensing oversimplified, 5-second soundbytes fit for broadcast on the evening news, or dubbing over his campaign ads on CNN with horrific hip-hop music in a laughably pathetic feint towards quote-young voters-unquote, well... I'll vote for the guy that doesn't stoop to that level any day.
:)
(Guess who I voted for in 2000?
"Thought Equity also doesn't use ads featuring actors who belong to the Screen Actors Guild."
Right there in the friggin' article.
That's an excellent and most obvious point. Yet you would not believe the institutional resistance to this idea among the three e-voting OEMs (Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia) to the idea of creating some sort of printed record. They insist on doing it all digital, even though their systems are ridiculously, incredibly insecure--probably because, in the event of a recount, a paper trail would provide concrete proof of how poorly their systems perform. There was an excellent overview of all this in Act One of the latest This American Life. You aren't going to believe your ears when you hear how lame these companies are (esp. Diebold), they to whom we are poised to entrust our most important the most important cornerstone of our democracy.
There are a lot more (and better) MP3 players out there than the iPod. For those of use who would like to listen to our iTunes songs, say, on a solid-state microplayer while jogging, until now we've been shit out of luck. This changes all that. And I should point out that being able to listen to the music you purchased however you choose is a fundamental right that you have as a consumer. Hence this "crack" (I call it an upgrade) is perfectly legal in many countries outside the U.S. Don't let Apple, RIAA, Microsoft, or anyone else tell you different. That you consider yourself "lucky" to be able to play iTunes songs on five devices instead of one only shows how warped the situation is and how effectively big corporations have spun the issue. But don't forget that you inherent posess this right. It isn't given to you by the record company.
I'm sure their parents must be real proud to know where their $30,000 a year is going.
Back to the math books for me...
Uhh, somebody needs to look up the definition of converse logic. That was neither said nor implied. Nor insightful.
Jack Valenti, cleaning up his house last weekend, found $1 million tucked beneath the cushion of one of his diamond-embroidered chaise lounges. He was nonplussed.
I'm not how well a million bucks of advocacy is going to fare against the abysally-deep pockets of the American entertainment industry...
People decry spam because it decreases productivity and costs businesses money. But you know what else decreases productivity and costs businesses money? Their smart employees wasting all day dreaming up new schemes to thwart spammers. Bayesian filter, spam-the-spammers, RBL, it's all quite ingenious, really. But for Christ's sake, gain some perspective. Or use those brain cells for something that matters, at least.
Certainly I can't be the only one out there who feels that this story, which nets about a Slashdot post and a dozen wire stories per day, is getting so blown out of proportion as to become unrecognizable. We're closer to World War III than we've been in 50 years. A couple hundred people a day are getting blown up in various parts of the Middle East. Large parts of India, China, and North Korea are in famine. 40 million people in Africa are dying of AIDS. Yet all I read about is this goddamn Spam problem, which I remind you, is incorporeal. It doesn't, techinically, even exist. So please: take two minutes a day to hit the delete key and then _shut up_ about the state of your inbox. There are more. pressing. issues. out there.
There's some comment here about shoring up that metaphor and concerning the anal sphincter, but I'm not gonna make it...
Probably because he's considering doing what I did freshmen year: dropping out of CS/EE completely because I didn't want to spend 60 hrs/wk of the best years of my life staring at some screen. I took up a humanities major, went and studied abroad for more than a year, read books, picked up a few instruments, and in short emerged from college a completely different and more well-rounded person than if I had kept my nose to the engineering grindstone for 4 straight years. All things I never would have been able to do otherwise.
And the funny thing is I still work as a programmer and am (very) gainfully employed! It's not what I want to do with my life, but it helps pay the bills until I finish up my majors and go to grad school or Peace Corps or whatever. Just a small message of hope out there for those who are convinced working in IT entails some huge life sacrifice. It doesn't necessarily. Better yet it's sage wisdom for all those college freshmen I see these days who arrive with a life-plan that they have mapped out since age 8...
Ooh you gotta love OSCP. Here's I think one of the "cheaper" Oracle-certified NFS implementations out there, the NAS8000. Only $39,995 MSRP for a 4U cabinet with a whopping 0mb of included data storage. Compare with the free-as-in-speech NFS implementation that everyone conflates with "the" NFS, as if there were only one, proper noun, singular, and it were just free for the taking. Hah.
Heh all these spare-bedroom Linux hackers these days seem to forget there's like, entire different universes of product line and reliability standards that have nothing to do with some home-brew NFS rigjob. I guess I didn't really learn that lesson either till I spent some time working in the corporate IT world...
Yeah I'll sure do that next time I'm about to fire up AquaMark 3 for some, immersive, pulse-pounding 3D action... although I have to admit I still think the gameplay in AquaMark 2 was a lot better and more balanced, in spite of the older engine. And who who could forget venerable AquaMark I: WaterSpot, which set the standard for 2D sidescrollers back in the early 90s.
Ahh, good old AquaMark. Definitely the most apropos benchmark, and, seeing your point, certainly the one we should all be looking at.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta get back to playing UT 2003, where this chunk of turd is still dominated by ATI's and Nvidia's top-of-the-line, ca. 2001.
The good news: a new, cheaper GFX company bursts on to the scene to challenge Ati and Nvidia dominance.
The bad news: the cards suck ass.
So basically, nothing has changed since you woke up this morning.
The folks in Congress are typically complaining about senseless, gratuitous, and illegal ... Military actions conducted by the US tend not to fall into those categories
Stated as fact, but very much a matter of opinion. And Congress doesn't compain because of gratuitous violence in and of itself, but rather because it believes they predispose players to violent, antisocial behavior at a subconscious level. To then turn around and harness that very effect to fill up some recruiting roster is at once cynical, totally lacking inner logic and, yes, hypocritical.
What an ingenious way to snooker thousands of unsuspecting children into signing their lives away to a life of killing. If the KKK, Michigan Militia, or some other militant fringe-group released recruiting software (I think I remember a Tom Clancy book about that), we'd all be watching day 27 of the standoff live on CNN right now. Yet when it's done by the Army, even better with your money, everyone says it's a wonderful recruiting idea. When Mortal Kombat splattered gallons of cartoonish blood on the screen, the very same politicans who are complicit in the development of this game called for that one's censorship. Yet the government itself releases a game that's infinitely more realistic with the goal of getting its players to actually kill in real life, and what's word from Capitol Hill? Free trade with China. Idiots and hypocrits, they...
To kill something it has to be living first, silly. I think even my dog gets that. Organisms which cannot survive independently of their host are not called living, they're called "virii." But then again I equate loss of liberty with sociological death (cf. slavery), so I couldn't in good conscience let any pro-life sites in either, since that would visit a metaphorical death on all those women in America who are no longer free to rule over their own body.
Also if they'd only let in anti-war and anti-death penalty sites, that would be nice too. Meaning block pro-war, pro-death penality sites. Like this one.
Actually, it would not confirm that. Symantec isn't breaking any laws. The ACLU has no legal standing to go after Symantec and any litigation would be a waste of their already stretched resources. So that could be, or more to the point, is, a far better explanation for their hypothetical inaction.
What has been confirmed is your too-typical conservative, knee-jerk reaction to villify icons of the left at every opening, however slight, even when you have no logical foundation for doing so. I'm guessing you watch a lot of O'Reilly.
Good.
Guns kill people. Anti-gun lobbies are trying to get less people killed. Internet filters should (that's what they're their for) block pro-killing content, while letting through anti-killing content.
What am I missing here?
The latest Rebel is mighty tempting, I know. But it still has a CCD that's close to 1/2 the area of a normal 35mm frame. Marketing types try to tell you this is a "focal multiplier" and convince you're getting more zoom for your buck, but what you're really doing is sacrificing versatility. You'd have to spend about $3000 on glass to get anything near wide-angle capability with this new Rebel. So forget about those landscapes. Personally I'd rather spend half that at the outset and get the superior body, the D10.
:)
The second thing that annoys me about this camera is it has been "dumbed down" for no good reason other than to keep the D10 marketable. The only real difference between it and the 300D are some extra control dials and the viewfinder; electronically they're almost identical. Canon knows that a thumb-dial isn't good enough to convince buyers to spend twice as much on the D10, so they just ripped out all the 300D's custom functions. Gutted them. Even though all the electronic capability is their. I don't know about you, but something just bothers me about buying a product that's been lobotomized. I'm half hoping someone will find a way to flash update the 300D with a 10D bios, or something, like they use to do with those HiPoint software RAID controllers, Lite-On CD-Rs, graphics cards, etc.