there is a 16-24mm ef lens (or something like that). it's only *1500.00*. not a good solution.
here's the weird part of the 1.6x multiplier:
i have a 35-70 and a 80-200 that i've used on my canon eos 1n for 9 years. there are several 'events' that i do on a regular basis.
i borrowed a canon digital rebel (6.x MP, small sensor) and it was a pretty good camera except it drove me crazy. i would be standing where i had stood many times before with lens i had used many times before and when i look through to take a picture my eyes were telling me that i was standing in the wrong place. mostly too close. mostly just an anoyance, but every once and a while it was just a PITA!
in a weird, twisted way, lexmark isn't doing badly...
i was teaching (certified ms and novell) classes in lexington, oh about 1997 or so, and we had some lexmark people in our classes. one day they mentioned that they were celebrating! and what were they celebrating? they had obtained a *whole* 1 percent of laser printer marketshare.
if you counted the hardware that hp manufactured for other vendors (hp made a lot of apple lasers, etc), they at the time were 85 to 95 percent of the market. canon, lexmark, epson, brother, etc were fighting for the leftovers.
as a side note, it was interesting in central ky to watch a marketing slogan vaporize overnight. as a selling point, "it's made in lexington" or "it's made in kentucky" as very popular. then they moved manufacturing to mexico (or china). it was amazing to hear the marketing people just about leave a blank spot in they speeches where it used to be.
you can make a case for statistics that people can live with. in the most simple case it's: the slower you go the safer you are. we have in general made a tradeoff of reasonable speeds and reasonable safety. and it's understood that people who use excessive speed tends to have more accidents. and continous measurement of speed (i believe) will help lower rates for people who don't speed and raise rates for those that do. why do i beleive this? because there is still competition in the auto insurance industry. they need people to insure.
the problem that i see is location. most insurers base the premium on 'garage location' and use that to calculate risks (theft, accident). i've never been asked where i work or where i go. as near as i can tell this is an open opportunity for rates to be (ahem) adjusted according to what kind of neighborhoods you drive in. if you regularly visit someone where there is a higher theft rate or visit locations that have higher accident rats *or* spend time in jursictions that are insurance company unfriendly (eastern kentucky), boom there goes your insurance premium.
i've also pointed out to people that location tracking has other problems also. if the wrong people know where you're gonna be or *not* gonna be, it could be a problem. do you trust all the people that will handle the black box data?
There has been some real progress in solar technology for spliting water. There has been work on solar cells (silcone technology) that would do this and they seem to be making progress on algae that would do the same thing.
The real problem with hydrogen fuel cells in safe storage of hydrogen. Think about that whenever you see someone smoking their cigs while pumping gas.
A lot of people can't/won't learn. I cross paths with people who don't want to know a damn thing about computers, they just want you use them.
I think the future model that works is that people will have to get 'experts' to do the tough stuff. Security, performance, reliability, etc. Everything the saleweasel said was automatic.
...Because this is unlicensed spectrum. If the library has a desire that access be from inside the library only, they should actions provide this. Access/security protocols or radio blocking walls/wallpaper/partitions.
I feel no sorrow for the library. I hope the lawyers get involved and that the library and police face penalties for this.
Besides not liking to pay for software as a service, there was another huge problem that still is a problem. WAN reliability. I have been amazed at all the people that don't really understand how *unreliable* the wide area connection is.
I had a case where a business was going to ditch their business management system (for an insurance sales co) for a 'web based' system. this was just *after* his dsl had been down for a week. I tried to explain that if he was using the web based system and his dsl went down he would not have *any* information available. And he didn't understand/believe me.
And then their are DOS attacks and other problems on the internet that may prevent you from getting to the MS Office web server.... sheesh.
I expect this to crash and burn again.
eric
2^128 is a big, big number.
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I've heard it expressed as 100,000,000 (one hundred million) addresses per square *meter* of land area.
My favorate expression is ip addressing for carpet fibers.
The memo is two years old. ok. And it mentions several softwares that it's unhappy with and want's to do something about.
What's happened in two years? Microsoft has lost (/is losing) the web server market. Samba has cost them revenue. And Sendmail? MS is not competing well. They haven't turned the ship around and it's heading for the rocks. ok, it's overly dramatic. But I believe that Microsoft is looking at some very unpleasant future pictures and looking at *drastic* actions.
Why did this memo pop up now? Maybe MS is getting desparate? big legal actions against OS operations would perhaps shut them down (or slow them down) at a cost tons of ill will. Which is why I don't think it's happened yet. This might be an easier out for MS than fixing it's problems.
not all evidence is on computers... there was probably lots of stuff on *paper*, and i would like to beleive that they've checked all those desk drawers...
because it protects against device failure, not *user* error. if you delete a file from a raid array, it's gone. that's part of what offline is all about.
I have several certifications and I am (was) a certified trainer for Novell and Microsoft.
The key to usefull people is experience and certification. There were two things I saw with self-taught technical people:
first, there were gaps in their knowledge that came from being able to do things without understanding exactly what they're doing or the underlying technology. I did this to myself when i first hooked up two windows nt machines together and wondered why they didn't see each other. They would be properly setup but i couldn't browse to the other. i would get disgusted and go get something to eat (or do *something* else). when i would get back, presto, it worked! later when i was reading the microsoft courseware I came to understand the timing of the Browswer server and how it worked. So *training* helps fill in the gaps of knowledge. *testing* demonstrates that you have been paying attention at least a little. and *certification* demonstratates persistance.
The second thing that I noticed was that self taught people could not see their lack of knowledge. If there was one thing that I started out all classes with it was this: I can teach you what's in this book, but the most important thing to learn is where this book takes you after the last page. I could tell pretty early who my good students were because they took what was handed to them and pursued it farther.
I have passed about 70 of these test (most needed to teach a class), and have sat a large number of classes as a student. One of the things that I am proud to say is that there were very few useless classes (or test) that I studied for. There have been an amazing number of times where little details in a novell, microsoft, or cisco course have helped me fill in the blanks to solve a problem.
Many years ago I was a corp tech support person. One of the strangest duties that I had was to assist local store manager interview potential store techs. She would start and ask the regular HR questions and get a feel for the person in general and I would talk to them about their technical background. After the interview I express values of good, bad, and BS.
One the high end we had a gentleman that had services F16s in the airforce. I had to explain to the store manager that while we were not likely to have people tow in jet aircraft to fix, his experience meant that he could probably learn whatever technical skills we needed him to learn. He unfortunately was not in our price range . On the other end was a gentleman that had fixed *boilers* on merchant marine vessels over the last 20 years. I later had to explain that this was largely mechanical repair and he might fix printers but I was skeptical.
I helped interview a wide range of people and it was always interesting. And yea, I did get to filter a fair share of b---s---.
This was years ago (3? 4)... I set up a novell server and setup dns on it as a forwarder and pointed workstations to my novell server for dns.
One of the neat things was the log screen that showed dns actions and you could follow the trail of dns requests to see how they were resolved. what makes this not O/T is that i beleive that this went into a log.
The reason that I think about that is, if DNS stopped working, i'm not sure that i have cached numbers that i could easily get to....
nx is a flag on a page (or block) of memory that indicates to the processor that i shouldn't be executed (page address not loaded into the ip?)
i can see that this would help catch some programming errors in a similar fashion to marking page 0 as read only (this catches all the bad offset references and unassigned pointer references). of course this would only really work if your compiler marked memory nx in a proper fashion.
i can see how this might help prevent buffer overflow attacks (worms), except that code should be marked read-only anyway... i'm kinda iffy on this.
but how in the world is this going to do anything to prevent a viral attack?
It will indeed eat paper and toner. if it's stored in digital an all black xmit would probaby compress nicely. what you may want is something with a random pattern to big to compress.
the cost of the machine will be much higher. partially due to the oem license from the manufacturer, but also due the requirements of the machine.
part of the problem ms will have with this is that windows 2000/xp will run nicely on a lot less resources. two years from now people will asked to buy a machine with a *lot* more memory, disk space, and cpu cycles to support longhorn. disks and memory are cheap but not that cheap and high end cpu speeds are not cheap.
may be against Baystar. i would assume that a capital investment company, especially one that invests in IP would do a complete and comprehensive evaluation of what they are investing in. which leads me to this: SCO painted a picture with *so* much recovery (lawsuit/licensing revenue) that it blinded them to the reality of situation.
one hopes that when the countersuits start flying that baystar is named as a defendant right under sco.
i've seen this with computers owned by small companies and individuals. it gets a software problems that *could* be fixed, but it would take time ($) to diagnose. or it could be reinstalled, along with their software (again, $). i would say that i've seen 4 people just buy new computers rather than fix (somewhat) simple software problems.
this is a state-by-state and city-by-city. i live in kentucky and there are state laws that cover this. and the state allows the local muni's to have some say with their laws. for several years in the town that i live in the bars were able to admit people under 21 (the legal age in ky) but they couldn't order alcohol. that was changed so that they can not enter a bar unless the bar makes more than 50% of it's revenue from food.
is an identical twin transplant. i've read several references over that years that if one twin donates a kidney to the other that anti-rejection drugs are not needed.
i have heard of cases where ob/gyns would not accept patients that were lawyers that has pursued malpractice actions. while it was interesting to hear women lawyers bitch about having to leave their county to find a doctor, it was *more* interesting to find out how many people felt no sorrow for them.
i would like to note that printing (well) is such a pain in windows developement that a rather large number of programers just include the Crystal Reports runtime with their applications. maybe we can learn something from that.
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there is a 16-24mm ef lens (or something like that). it's only *1500.00*. not a good solution.
here's the weird part of the 1.6x multiplier:
i have a 35-70 and a 80-200 that i've used on my canon eos 1n for 9 years. there are several 'events' that i do on a regular basis.
i borrowed a canon digital rebel (6.x MP, small sensor) and it was a pretty good camera except it drove me crazy. i would be standing where i had stood many times before with lens i had used many times before and when i look through to take a picture my eyes were telling me that i was standing in the wrong place. mostly too close. mostly just an anoyance, but every once and a while it was just a PITA!
eric
in a weird, twisted way, lexmark isn't doing badly...
i was teaching (certified ms and novell) classes in lexington, oh about 1997 or so, and we had some lexmark people in our classes. one day they mentioned that they were celebrating! and what were they celebrating? they had obtained a *whole* 1 percent of laser printer marketshare.
if you counted the hardware that hp manufactured for other vendors (hp made a lot of apple lasers, etc), they at the time were 85 to 95 percent of the market. canon, lexmark, epson, brother, etc were fighting for the leftovers.
as a side note, it was interesting in central ky to watch a marketing slogan vaporize overnight. as a selling point, "it's made in lexington" or "it's made in kentucky" as very popular. then they moved manufacturing to mexico (or china). it was amazing to hear the marketing people just about leave a blank spot in they speeches where it used to be.
eric
you can make a case for statistics that people can live with. in the most simple case it's: the slower you go the safer you are. we have in general made a tradeoff of reasonable speeds and reasonable safety. and it's understood that people who use excessive speed tends to have more accidents. and continous measurement of speed (i believe) will help lower rates for people who don't speed and raise rates for those that do. why do i beleive this? because there is still competition in the auto insurance industry. they need people to insure.
the problem that i see is location. most insurers base the premium on 'garage location' and use that to calculate risks (theft, accident). i've never been asked where i work or where i go. as near as i can tell this is an open opportunity for rates to be (ahem) adjusted according to what kind of neighborhoods you drive in. if you regularly visit someone where there is a higher theft rate or visit locations that have higher accident rats *or* spend time in jursictions that are insurance company unfriendly (eastern kentucky), boom there goes your insurance premium.
i've also pointed out to people that location tracking has other problems also. if the wrong people know where you're gonna be or *not* gonna be, it could be a problem. do you trust all the people that will handle the black box data?
eric
There has been some real progress in solar technology for spliting water. There has been work on solar cells (silcone technology) that would do this and they seem to be making progress on algae that would do the same thing.
The real problem with hydrogen fuel cells in safe storage of hydrogen. Think about that whenever you see someone smoking their cigs while pumping gas.
eric
A lot of people can't/won't learn. I cross paths with people who don't want to know a damn thing about computers, they just want you use them.
I think the future model that works is that people will have to get 'experts' to do the tough stuff. Security, performance, reliability, etc. Everything the saleweasel said was automatic.
eric
...Because this is unlicensed spectrum. If the library has a desire that access be from inside the library only, they should actions provide this. Access/security protocols or radio blocking walls/wallpaper/partitions.
I feel no sorrow for the library. I hope the lawyers get involved and that the library and police face penalties for this.
eric
Besides not liking to pay for software as a service, there was another huge problem that still is a problem. WAN reliability. I have been amazed at all the people that don't really understand how *unreliable* the wide area connection is.
I had a case where a business was going to ditch their business management system (for an insurance sales co) for a 'web based' system. this was just *after* his dsl had been down for a week. I tried to explain that if he was using the web based system and his dsl went down he would not have *any* information available. And he didn't understand/believe me.
And then their are DOS attacks and other problems on the internet that may prevent you from getting to the MS Office web server.... sheesh.
I expect this to crash and burn again.
eric
I've heard it expressed as 100,000,000 (one hundred million) addresses per square *meter* of land area.
My favorate expression is ip addressing for carpet fibers.
eric
The memo is two years old. ok. And it mentions several softwares that it's unhappy with and want's to do something about.
What's happened in two years? Microsoft has lost (/is losing) the web server market. Samba has cost them revenue. And Sendmail? MS is not competing well. They haven't turned the ship around and it's heading for the rocks. ok, it's overly dramatic. But I believe that Microsoft is looking at some very unpleasant future pictures and looking at *drastic* actions.
Why did this memo pop up now? Maybe MS is getting desparate? big legal actions against OS operations would perhaps shut them down (or slow them down) at a cost tons of ill will. Which is why I don't think it's happened yet. This might be an easier out for MS than fixing it's problems.
eric
not all evidence is on computers... there was probably lots of stuff on *paper*, and i would like to beleive that they've checked all those desk drawers...
eric
because it protects against device failure, not *user* error. if you delete a file from a raid array, it's gone. that's part of what offline is all about.
eric
I have several certifications and I am (was) a certified trainer for Novell and Microsoft.
The key to usefull people is experience and certification. There were two things I saw with self-taught technical people:
first, there were gaps in their knowledge that came from being able to do things without understanding exactly what they're doing or the underlying technology. I did this to myself when i first hooked up two windows nt machines together and wondered why they didn't see each other. They would be properly setup but i couldn't browse to the other. i would get disgusted and go get something to eat (or do *something* else). when i would get back, presto, it worked! later when i was reading the microsoft courseware I came to understand the timing of the Browswer server and how it worked. So *training* helps fill in the gaps of knowledge. *testing* demonstrates that you have been paying attention at least a little. and *certification* demonstratates persistance.
The second thing that I noticed was that self taught people could not see their lack of knowledge. If there was one thing that I started out all classes with it was this: I can teach you what's in this book, but the most important thing to learn is where this book takes you after the last page. I could tell pretty early who my good students were because they took what was handed to them and pursued it farther.
I have passed about 70 of these test (most needed to teach a class), and have sat a large number of classes as a student. One of the things that I am proud to say is that there were very few useless classes (or test) that I studied for. There have been an amazing number of times where little details in a novell, microsoft, or cisco course have helped me fill in the blanks to solve a problem.
eric
Many years ago I was a corp tech support person. One of the strangest duties that I had was to assist local store manager interview potential store techs. She would start and ask the regular HR questions and get a feel for the person in general and I would talk to them about their technical background. After the interview I express values of good, bad, and BS.
One the high end we had a gentleman that had services F16s in the airforce. I had to explain to the store manager that while we were not likely to have people tow in jet aircraft to fix, his experience meant that he could probably learn whatever technical skills we needed him to learn. He unfortunately was not in our price range . On the other end was a gentleman that had fixed *boilers* on merchant marine vessels over the last 20 years. I later had to explain that this was largely mechanical repair and he might fix printers but I was skeptical.
I helped interview a wide range of people and it was always interesting. And yea, I did get to filter a fair share of b---s---.
eric
This was years ago (3? 4)... I set up a novell server and setup dns on it as a forwarder and pointed workstations to my novell server for dns.
One of the neat things was the log screen that showed dns actions and you could follow the trail of dns requests to see how they were resolved. what makes this not O/T is that i beleive that this went into a log.
The reason that I think about that is, if DNS stopped working, i'm not sure that i have cached numbers that i could easily get to....
eric
nx is a flag on a page (or block) of memory that indicates to the processor that i shouldn't be executed (page address not loaded into the ip?)
i can see that this would help catch some programming errors in a similar fashion to marking page 0 as read only (this catches all the bad offset references and unassigned pointer references). of course this would only really work if your compiler marked memory nx in a proper fashion.
i can see how this might help prevent buffer overflow attacks (worms), except that code should be marked read-only anyway... i'm kinda iffy on this.
but how in the world is this going to do anything to prevent a viral attack?
eric
It will indeed eat paper and toner. if it's stored in digital an all black xmit would probaby compress nicely. what you may want is something with a random pattern to big to compress.
eric
the cost of the machine will be much higher. partially due to the oem license from the manufacturer, but also due the requirements of the machine.
part of the problem ms will have with this is that windows 2000/xp will run nicely on a lot less resources. two years from now people will asked to buy a machine with a *lot* more memory, disk space, and cpu cycles to support longhorn. disks and memory are cheap but not that cheap and high end cpu speeds are not cheap.
eric
because there is an issue with decay where the crown meets the enamal on the outside.
and the tooth probably failed because it died (or is dying) which means that the whole tooth is at risk.
eric
start with diet: you need calcium. and not a lot of processed sugar.
good habits: brushing regularly. flossing. and not eating all the time (without brushing afterward).
there are medicines that you can take while you are growing up that will impact the development of your teeth.
diet and medicines that your mother was into before you were born.
there's a lot that goes into healthy teeth and some of this was really quite recent.
eric
may be against Baystar. i would assume that a capital investment company, especially one that invests in IP would do a complete and comprehensive evaluation of what they are investing in. which leads me to this: SCO painted a picture with *so* much recovery (lawsuit/licensing revenue) that it blinded them to the reality of situation.
one hopes that when the countersuits start flying that baystar is named as a defendant right under sco.
eric
i've seen this with computers owned by small companies and individuals. it gets a software problems that *could* be fixed, but it would take time ($) to diagnose. or it could be reinstalled, along with their software (again, $). i would say that i've seen 4 people just buy new computers rather than fix (somewhat) simple software problems.
not good.
eric
this is a state-by-state and city-by-city. i live in kentucky and there are state laws that cover this. and the state allows the local muni's to have some say with their laws. for several years in the town that i live in the bars were able to admit people under 21 (the legal age in ky) but they couldn't order alcohol. that was changed so that they can not enter a bar unless the bar makes more than 50% of it's revenue from food.
eric
is an identical twin transplant. i've read several references over that years that if one twin donates a kidney to the other that anti-rejection drugs are not needed.
eric
i have heard of cases where ob/gyns would not accept patients that were lawyers that has pursued malpractice actions. while it was interesting to hear women lawyers bitch about having to leave their county to find a doctor, it was *more* interesting to find out how many people felt no sorrow for them.
eric
i would like to note that printing (well) is such a pain in windows developement that a rather large number of programers just include the Crystal Reports runtime with their applications. maybe we can learn something from that.