One of the reasons your Nikon takes such a good picture is that the N80 is MUCH better than the Rebel series. As a user of a Rebel and an Owner of a N80, the difference is night and day. The Nikon glass is so much better than the cannon 'consumer' slr. I have a Nikon D-series lense (28-105MM 3.5-4.5 F) which takes such a fantastic picture.
However, each section of that was more than a Rebel with a lense (about $500).
I too prefer film for most things (but, I have never really used a 'professional' digital camera). However, the 10D really blew my mind away. I know a professional photographer who uses it almost exclusivly (he also has a 15 Megapixel Nikon, I think -- but this is really new). The 10D, combined with a top of the line ($6000-$10,000) Epson ink jet printer was just as good or better than a photograph done with chemicals to the same size. I saw a full poster (3'x5') picture produced in this fashion. I could not tell it was done on a computer until I was less than an inch away.
Digital is getting really good. But, film and chemicals are still the king.
But, you are correct, a camera with interchangable lenses is going to give you the most options. I too am a total techie, but, I like to scan my images to see if I can improve them. Sometimes I can, other times I can't.
To see more of my photography (some digital, some film; some color, some black and white), see my web page.
Don't let anyone fool you. The French are just as bad, if not worse, to Americans as we are to them.
(You can choose not to believe these since there is no reference, or I can quickly write up my experiences in France and link to that, it is just as valid).
Parisians are the worst that I met, Southern France is quite nice and the people are too. But Paris, wow, they are terrible. They will run into you at full speed on roller skates and then run away.
They also (this past summer) called a young person of asian decent a 'nigger' simply because he was an American (yes, you can tell) and dark skinned.
Once you get outside of Paris, the people are mostly nice (there are always exceptions in every crowd and this goes both ways). My guess is that too many people only see Paris, have some bad run-ins, and assume all French are like that.
I personally dislike the 'newspaper' le Monde (the world). On Sept 11th of this year they published a political cartoon of what looked like a 747 with "USA" on the side hitting two towers that appeared to be the WTC, the towers being labeled "Chille". That is unexcusable, at least to me.
Specifically, the pharmaceutical industry. One particular company had a 10 year old database that was stored in one frickin huge database (all connected to a mainframe). They had a room that was about 100 ft x 100 ft filled with disk packs (as they called them, I don't know the technical name) each about 5 x 5 x 8, and each filled with disks.
They had a problem in the late 90's -- one of the tables (not the data, just the description of what was in the tables) was becoming larger than an entire disk stack. I can imagine how much data was in it b/c they probably recieved at least 50-100MB of data in it per day in errors (stuff that needed user intervention, which accounted for about 3-5% of the data). That is each day for 10 years.
Beyond that, this was only one of about 50 departments.
Ok, granted, that is only about 60 Terrabytes, but I would only imagine that I was underestimating it. That, and everything keeps growing each year (people are addicted to [legal] drugs and each sale creates several hundred K of data that has to be kept track of).
That, and this particular company was fairly small by comparison to some of the other companies in existence at that time.
Now, remember that each pharmacuetical company has databases of roughly this size per $10billion is sales, and each drug wholesaler has to keep information about contracts for everyone they sell to, each sale and purchase, etc, they have (FDA rules), and each pharmacy (including hospitals) has to keep track of the same, you can imagine that these databases (all together) must be huge.
Oh, and the company I worked for, this only counts the north american sales, european sales are about equal to these.
Yeah, pharmacies and the drug industry have to keep a lot of data.
Hate feeding trolls, but, Clinton closed, among others, the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (which was one of the larger ones at the time).
The size of the military was also reduced although I do not know statistics.
As far as criminals goes... one was involved with the Rose Law Firm, had most of his old friends end up dead or in jail, and was accused of lying under oath. That is US law. The current president cannot be accused of these items -- however, on the whole war thing, we will have to wait and see what happens on that.
And, although I do not remember Clinton bombing Iraq [generally meaning Baghdad/Sadam], I remember a couple cruise missles aimed at one Osama bin Ladin.
where the main bad guy was prevented by a treaty from destroying the main good guys. But, they decided to try to destroy the good guys in a way that would appear to be legitimate.
Ok, fine, so it was Stargate-SG1, and the episode name was Failsafe (scroll down to 5.17).
It mirrors this situation surprisingly well.
In other words, MS is just copying ideas from a TV show now -- maybe MGM, SCI-FI channel, etc, should sue Microsoft for IP theft.
My science teacher in high school used to like to tell this story:
When he was working in the private sector (so, before he worked at our school), the lab he was at ordered a very expensive, very accurate, and very breakable piece of equipment (made of glass, don't remember what it was). It was about 2 feet long and I think the cost was over $1000 in the 70's. They obviously bought insurance for it.
It arrived one day, via a delivery truck, and when taken inside, was found to be broken. So, it was repackaged and sent back.
A week or so later, another one arrived. It too was broken and had to be sent back.
Same thing with one more.
Finally, a tractor trailer came to make a delivery. The driver asked where they wanted him to put their 50 gallon drum. They had no idea what they had ordered that could have possibly been so large, so, they took it inside to find that it was filled with packaging. They had to really dig, and there in the center was a smaller package, about the size of the previous shipments, with a non-broken piece of equipment.
Lesson of this story -- when in doubt, use a 50 gallon drum and lots of packing peanuts.
A friend of mine was taken to court by Walmart (side not, never shop at Walmart) for passing a bad check. It wasn't here, it was someone else and the Walmart cashier didn't check for ID (Walmart supposedly has a policy of requiring ID when paying by check).
She called Walmart to explain the situation, and they said that they would not press charges. Then, a couple weeks later, she got notice in the mail that she had a court date in a week (after they had said they would not press charges).
She was not sent to jail or anything, but it was a less than pleasant experience.
The permanant record idea is interesting. It could potentially be able to act as a continent-wide version of those stolen car trackers (Lo-jack or something like that).
Beyond that, it could be used to verify that someone was at/not at a crime scene, etc.
However, the whole big-brother stuff comes in to play also, and this isn't too good.
Out here in PA (as well as NJ, MD, DE, VA, NY, and other New England states that I do not have first hand knowledge of) use a system called E-ZPass.
Many, many people use it (as it lets you pay tolls with a credit card and a little transponder in the front of the car). Some people who happen to go between two toll booths a bit too fast, get speeding tickets mailed to their homes.
As annoying as this may sound, they at least warn you when you sign up that this is a possibility and give you the option to opt-out (at least the PA turn pike does, don't know about others).
The Philadelphia school system gets about $1billion/year from the state, and each year it goes up.
One of the issues that was not mentioned is, who pays for the school once it is up and running? It is great to get a shiny new school, but, who pays for all the sysadmins? Who pays the electric bill? Who pays to keep the equipment working?
Knowing the way most philadelphia schools go, much of this equipment will be vandalized in one way or another withing a year, and everything will fall apart (well, maybe not everything) withing 3-4 years. At least, that is my guess.
In contrast, my former school district (Haverford High School) gets no money at all from the state. We are about 10 miles from center philadelphia, and the district spends about $200,000-$300,000/year on new computers, server, switches, printers, etc, all funded from the raising property tax.
Granted, setting this up in a major city is probably great for PR and such, I just think that there are other districts that could use the money a lot more (especially considering that both Haverford and Upper Darby [the next door school] are getting flooded with people who are leaving philly by the thousands every year).
In my opinion (and many other's), Philadelphia's school districts are a HUGE failure and a HUGE waste of money (but with the former mayor of Philadelphia as the governor, I can't see this changing anytime soon).
Just the opinion of someone who used to live in the area.
For me, the folder is just as important as the colour it is. Most gui based mail clients allow for rules, so, I have several rules to sort my inbox to different folders, and also some to make e-mails from certain domains (my college for one) show up a certain colour (oh, lets say dark green).
I also (used to) assign certain sounds to certain people (at one point I got so many e-mails from my friend jeff that I had recorded myself saying 'hey jeff' and that sound would play whenever I got an e-mail from him), but sounds became too obnoxious for both me and my roommates (although it is still an often overlooked valid option).
I've also heard (and probably used) Francais (pronounced "Frank case") and Froglish (being a reference to the French being called Frogs by the British back in the day).
When I was in Australia, I thought it was great b/c I could catch up on the previous season of the Simpsons that I had missed due to classes. Not to be a total jerk here, but, the only locally produced shows that Australia actually showed were Big Brother [which was an imported idea, but executed exceptionally well and made tons of money], Neighbours [a really long running, terrible soap opera], and the news. Everything else was Simpsons, Alias, Smallville, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, Sex and the City, even American Movies, like, The American President was on TV one night [terrible movie, but it makes the point]. They made a huge advertising campaign for Alias when it was starting in 2002, that it was the most popular show from America. Made a huge deal about it. The next month, Smallville was the most popular show from America. Even all of the movies were American [although Star Wars II and others were shot in parts of Australia] with the possible exception of Rabbit Proof Fence [it was about Australia and probably of not much interest to American audiences] and a couple of movies from England/GB [Mean Machine, and possible Ali G's movie]. Most of the music was from American bands from the previous year [Ben Folds doesn't count as either American or Australian in this example].
Long story short, they really don't have much to protect anyway. I guess it fits in with their whole thing that Qantas [big airline] and Telstra [big mostly evil telephone giant] cannot be more than 49% owned by foreign investors.
This must be some new Uber pac man with cool 3-d graphics that require a Radeon 179002038487483 or an nVidia gForce 405 to run. I mean seriously, how much bloat can you put into pac man to make it 161,212k, the old Atari version could not have been more than 100k at most (I don't know the limit of an Atari from that time).
A lot of people have a/8 network. From what I remember from my networking class, there was a scheme for how the ips should be divided.
If the first digit is less than 128 (ok, in reality, it is 127), they get a/8. If it is less than 192 (I think this is about where it is) they buy in a/16. If it is over 192, they get a/24.
I recommend anything by QMS (which is now minolta-qms). In the past, I've used a QMS 2040 (which is a b/w laser than can handle at least 11in wide paper) that was 8-10 years old (give or take).
It is still working today, more than 5 years since I have last used it.
Is it slow, yes, is it old, yes, but it is still working after 13-15 years.
QMS has traditionally been a bit more expensive, and the price of the toner was no more than an equivanent HP.
Reminds me of the banning of the words 'air bag' and 'walkman' from about 6-7 years ago. I also remember that a tv personality could get in trouble for using the term 'shut up'.
As far as I know, according to the transportation department (I don't know the exact title), an 'air bag' is some 4 or 5 word noun that describes it as a bag that inflates or something like that.
At least, this was true a couple of years ago when I was in High School and my french teacher showed us a movie on it. It might not be the case anymore.
Just listen to classical all the time -- I don't think that Mozart cares if some of his songs are downloaded or not.
Beyond that, most classical albums (at least of dead people) are quite cheap ($7-$10) versus the latest flavour of the month band ($15-$20). I guess that is the beauty of work that is in public domain. So, all we have to do is be 300-400 years behind the trend and we are in the clear.
-CPM
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I second the tabbed browsing. Definitly my favorite feature of Mozilla. I showed it to a few of my college friends. They didn't know how they'd lived without it (ok, not quite that much, but they really liked it).
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One of the reasons your Nikon takes such a good picture is that the N80 is MUCH better than the Rebel series. As a user of a Rebel and an Owner of a N80, the difference is night and day. The Nikon glass is so much better than the cannon 'consumer' slr. I have a Nikon D-series lense (28-105MM 3.5-4.5 F) which takes such a fantastic picture.
However, each section of that was more than a Rebel with a lense (about $500).
I too prefer film for most things (but, I have never really used a 'professional' digital camera). However, the 10D really blew my mind away. I know a professional photographer who uses it almost exclusivly (he also has a 15 Megapixel Nikon, I think -- but this is really new). The 10D, combined with a top of the line ($6000-$10,000) Epson ink jet printer was just as good or better than a photograph done with chemicals to the same size. I saw a full poster (3'x5') picture produced in this fashion. I could not tell it was done on a computer until I was less than an inch away.
Digital is getting really good. But, film and chemicals are still the king.
But, you are correct, a camera with interchangable lenses is going to give you the most options. I too am a total techie, but, I like to scan my images to see if I can improve them. Sometimes I can, other times I can't.
To see more of my photography (some digital, some film; some color, some black and white), see my web page.
-CPM
Don't let anyone fool you. The French are just as bad, if not worse, to Americans as we are to them.
(You can choose not to believe these since there is no reference, or I can quickly write up my experiences in France and link to that, it is just as valid).
Parisians are the worst that I met, Southern France is quite nice and the people are too. But Paris, wow, they are terrible. They will run into you at full speed on roller skates and then run away.
They also (this past summer) called a young person of asian decent a 'nigger' simply because he was an American (yes, you can tell) and dark skinned.
Once you get outside of Paris, the people are mostly nice (there are always exceptions in every crowd and this goes both ways). My guess is that too many people only see Paris, have some bad run-ins, and assume all French are like that.
I personally dislike the 'newspaper' le Monde (the world). On Sept 11th of this year they published a political cartoon of what looked like a 747 with "USA" on the side hitting two towers that appeared to be the WTC, the towers being labeled "Chille". That is unexcusable, at least to me.
-CPM
My teacher in high school had a 10ft long slide rule that was hanging from the wall.
I don't ever remember it getting used.
-CPM
...they can just remind us that they are the ones who got rid of sitefinder and we should shutup that they just broke everything else.
But, the internet is dying, right?
-CPM
My guess would be any old corporate database.
Specifically, the pharmaceutical industry. One particular company had a 10 year old database that was stored in one frickin huge database (all connected to a mainframe). They had a room that was about 100 ft x 100 ft filled with disk packs (as they called them, I don't know the technical name) each about 5 x 5 x 8, and each filled with disks.
They had a problem in the late 90's -- one of the tables (not the data, just the description of what was in the tables) was becoming larger than an entire disk stack. I can imagine how much data was in it b/c they probably recieved at least 50-100MB of data in it per day in errors (stuff that needed user intervention, which accounted for about 3-5% of the data). That is each day for 10 years.
Beyond that, this was only one of about 50 departments.
Ok, granted, that is only about 60 Terrabytes, but I would only imagine that I was underestimating it. That, and everything keeps growing each year (people are addicted to [legal] drugs and each sale creates several hundred K of data that has to be kept track of).
That, and this particular company was fairly small by comparison to some of the other companies in existence at that time.
Now, remember that each pharmacuetical company has databases of roughly this size per $10billion is sales, and each drug wholesaler has to keep information about contracts for everyone they sell to, each sale and purchase, etc, they have (FDA rules), and each pharmacy (including hospitals) has to keep track of the same, you can imagine that these databases (all together) must be huge.
Oh, and the company I worked for, this only counts the north american sales, european sales are about equal to these.
Yeah, pharmacies and the drug industry have to keep a lot of data.
-CPM
Hate feeding trolls, but, Clinton closed, among others, the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (which was one of the larger ones at the time).
The size of the military was also reduced although I do not know statistics.
As far as criminals goes... one was involved with the Rose Law Firm, had most of his old friends end up dead or in jail, and was accused of lying under oath. That is US law. The current president cannot be accused of these items -- however, on the whole war thing, we will have to wait and see what happens on that.
And, although I do not remember Clinton bombing Iraq [generally meaning Baghdad/Sadam], I remember a couple cruise missles aimed at one Osama bin Ladin.
-CPM
where the main bad guy was prevented by a treaty from destroying the main good guys. But, they decided to try to destroy the good guys in a way that would appear to be legitimate.
Ok, fine, so it was Stargate-SG1, and the episode name was Failsafe (scroll down to 5.17).
It mirrors this situation surprisingly well.
In other words, MS is just copying ideas from a TV show now -- maybe MGM, SCI-FI channel, etc, should sue Microsoft for IP theft.
-CPM
My science teacher in high school used to like to tell this story:
When he was working in the private sector (so, before he worked at our school), the lab he was at ordered a very expensive, very accurate, and very breakable piece of equipment (made of glass, don't remember what it was). It was about 2 feet long and I think the cost was over $1000 in the 70's. They obviously bought insurance for it.
It arrived one day, via a delivery truck, and when taken inside, was found to be broken. So, it was repackaged and sent back.
A week or so later, another one arrived. It too was broken and had to be sent back.
Same thing with one more.
Finally, a tractor trailer came to make a delivery. The driver asked where they wanted him to put their 50 gallon drum. They had no idea what they had ordered that could have possibly been so large, so, they took it inside to find that it was filled with packaging. They had to really dig, and there in the center was a smaller package, about the size of the previous shipments, with a non-broken piece of equipment.
Lesson of this story -- when in doubt, use a 50 gallon drum and lots of packing peanuts.
-CPM
A friend of mine was taken to court by Walmart (side not, never shop at Walmart) for passing a bad check. It wasn't here, it was someone else and the Walmart cashier didn't check for ID (Walmart supposedly has a policy of requiring ID when paying by check).
She called Walmart to explain the situation, and they said that they would not press charges. Then, a couple weeks later, she got notice in the mail that she had a court date in a week (after they had said they would not press charges).
She was not sent to jail or anything, but it was a less than pleasant experience.
-CPM
The permanant record idea is interesting. It could potentially be able to act as a continent-wide version of those stolen car trackers (Lo-jack or something like that).
Beyond that, it could be used to verify that someone was at/not at a crime scene, etc.
However, the whole big-brother stuff comes in to play also, and this isn't too good.
-CPM
Out here in PA (as well as NJ, MD, DE, VA, NY, and other New England states that I do not have first hand knowledge of) use a system called E-ZPass.
Many, many people use it (as it lets you pay tolls with a credit card and a little transponder in the front of the car). Some people who happen to go between two toll booths a bit too fast, get speeding tickets mailed to their homes.
As annoying as this may sound, they at least warn you when you sign up that this is a possibility and give you the option to opt-out (at least the PA turn pike does, don't know about others).
-CPM
Wait, low on funds? Which Philly school is this?
The Philadelphia school system gets about $1billion/year from the state, and each year it goes up.
One of the issues that was not mentioned is, who pays for the school once it is up and running? It is great to get a shiny new school, but, who pays for all the sysadmins? Who pays the electric bill? Who pays to keep the equipment working?
Knowing the way most philadelphia schools go, much of this equipment will be vandalized in one way or another withing a year, and everything will fall apart (well, maybe not everything) withing 3-4 years. At least, that is my guess.
In contrast, my former school district (Haverford High School) gets no money at all from the state. We are about 10 miles from center philadelphia, and the district spends about $200,000-$300,000/year on new computers, server, switches, printers, etc, all funded from the raising property tax.
Granted, setting this up in a major city is probably great for PR and such, I just think that there are other districts that could use the money a lot more (especially considering that both Haverford and Upper Darby [the next door school] are getting flooded with people who are leaving philly by the thousands every year).
In my opinion (and many other's), Philadelphia's school districts are a HUGE failure and a HUGE waste of money (but with the former mayor of Philadelphia as the governor, I can't see this changing anytime soon).
Just the opinion of someone who used to live in the area.
-CPM
For me, the folder is just as important as the colour it is. Most gui based mail clients allow for rules, so, I have several rules to sort my inbox to different folders, and also some to make e-mails from certain domains (my college for one) show up a certain colour (oh, lets say dark green).
I also (used to) assign certain sounds to certain people (at one point I got so many e-mails from my friend jeff that I had recorded myself saying 'hey jeff' and that sound would play whenever I got an e-mail from him), but sounds became too obnoxious for both me and my roommates (although it is still an often overlooked valid option).
--CPM
I've also heard (and probably used) Francais (pronounced "Frank case") and Froglish (being a reference to the French being called Frogs by the British back in the day).
-CPM
Not that it matters too much, but...
When I was in Australia, I thought it was great b/c I could catch up on the previous season of the Simpsons that I had missed due to classes. Not to be a total jerk here, but, the only locally produced shows that Australia actually showed were Big Brother [which was an imported idea, but executed exceptionally well and made tons of money], Neighbours [a really long running, terrible soap opera], and the news. Everything else was Simpsons, Alias, Smallville, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, Sex and the City, even American Movies, like, The American President was on TV one night [terrible movie, but it makes the point]. They made a huge advertising campaign for Alias when it was starting in 2002, that it was the most popular show from America. Made a huge deal about it. The next month, Smallville was the most popular show from America. Even all of the movies were American [although Star Wars II and others were shot in parts of Australia] with the possible exception of Rabbit Proof Fence [it was about Australia and probably of not much interest to American audiences] and a couple of movies from England/GB [Mean Machine, and possible Ali G's movie]. Most of the music was from American bands from the previous year [Ben Folds doesn't count as either American or Australian in this example].
Long story short, they really don't have much to protect anyway. I guess it fits in with their whole thing that Qantas [big airline] and Telstra [big mostly evil telephone giant] cannot be more than 49% owned by foreign investors.
--CPM
I personally want to know what they hell they put in that pac man game to make it 161 MB
/mount/3/gentoo/distfiles/
>Infringement Detail:
>Infringing Work: Pac Man
>Filepath:
>Filename: INFMapPacks123FULL-MAN.zip
>First Found: 8 Aug 2003 09:38:44 EDT (GMT -0400)
>Last Found: 8 Aug 2003 10:42:12 EDT (GMT -0400)
>Filesize: 161,212k
>IP Address: 12.165.49.28
>IP Port: 21
>Network: FTP
>Protocol: FTP
This must be some new Uber pac man with cool 3-d graphics that require a Radeon 179002038487483 or an nVidia gForce 405 to run. I mean seriously, how much bloat can you put into pac man to make it 161,212k, the old Atari version could not have been more than 100k at most (I don't know the limit of an Atari from that time).
-CPM
A lot of people have a /8 network. From what I remember from my networking class, there was a scheme for how the ips should be divided.
/8. If it is less than 192 (I think this is about where it is) they buy in a /16. If it is over 192, they get a /24.
/8 networks
If the first digit is less than 128 (ok, in reality, it is 127), they get a
Of course these can be subdivided.
Other examples of people who have
MIT 18.0.0.0/8
Merck & Co., Inc 54.0.0.0/8
General Electric 3.0.0.0/8
US Department of Defence 6.0.0.0/8, 7.0.0.0/8, and 11.0.0.0/8
Genuity 4.0.0.0/8 and 8.0.0.0/8
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) 12.0.0.0/8.
And that is just barely touching the surface.
--CPM
see here
-CPM
I recommend anything by QMS (which is now minolta-qms). In the past, I've used a QMS 2040 (which is a b/w laser than can handle at least 11in wide paper) that was 8-10 years old (give or take).
It is still working today, more than 5 years since I have last used it.
Is it slow, yes, is it old, yes, but it is still working after 13-15 years.
QMS has traditionally been a bit more expensive, and the price of the toner was no more than an equivanent HP.
-CPM
Reminds me of the banning of the words 'air bag' and 'walkman' from about 6-7 years ago. I also remember that a tv personality could get in trouble for using the term 'shut up'.
As far as I know, according to the transportation department (I don't know the exact title), an 'air bag' is some 4 or 5 word noun that describes it as a bag that inflates or something like that.
At least, this was true a couple of years ago when I was in High School and my french teacher showed us a movie on it. It might not be the case anymore.
-CPM
Just listen to classical all the time -- I don't think that Mozart cares if some of his songs are downloaded or not.
Beyond that, most classical albums (at least of dead people) are quite cheap ($7-$10) versus the latest flavour of the month band ($15-$20). I guess that is the beauty of work that is in public domain. So, all we have to do is be 300-400 years behind the trend and we are in the clear.
-CPM
I second the tabbed browsing. Definitly my favorite feature of Mozilla. I showed it to a few of my college friends. They didn't know how they'd lived without it (ok, not quite that much, but they really liked it).
-CPM
I call this a quick way to void about a dozen warantees.
-CPM
they go like this
int i = 0;
int j = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
for (j = 0; j < 100; i++)
{
ok, now there are 6 lines that could have been copied. However, I am fairly certain that they would have been copied out of some text book originally.
Hm, note to self
Step 1 - patent the nested 'for' loop
Step 2 - sue IBM, MS, etc for US$1 bilion each
Step 3 - Profit!
Wow, I think I'm the first to actually have a step 2 included, go me!
-CPM