I'm not familiar with all Panasonic cameras, but the ones I've seen use Li-Ion batteries. I have read reports of some cheap Li-Ions literally exploding in appliances, and know of at least one in my area that caught fire a minute after being taken/out/ of an appliance, possibly after breaking down internally due to high current drain.
I think Panasonic have gone completely the wrong way about this, having thrown the baby out with the bathwater, but there may be some logic to it other than HP-ink-style profiteering. If it was me I'd simply make the warranty not cover damage caused by 3rd party batteries and be done with it.
Well, Firefox 3.0.10 at least still uses ridiculous amounts of memory. With 160 tabs open (across several windows) it initially takes up a couple of hundred MB. Then leaving it for a couple of days doing *absolutely nothing* it often gobbles up in excess of 2GB.
Yes, obviously faked (just look at those scintillating beams coming from the projector).
But still not 100% impossible. Before you start wondering if a cuckoo is about to spring from my forehead, let me explain:
A few years ago researchers developed a dark cloth that reflected three very narrow wavelengths corresponding roughly to pure red, green and blue, designed for DLP and other sequential colour-channel projection technologies. This cloth would look very dark, except when illuminated with high intensities of these three wavelengths. This way you could have a small black square on your white wall, and get an effect similar to those publicity shots.
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This is a rule that I learned very early on and can't emphasise enough: Don't assume that someone less knowledgeable about computers than yourself must be stupid. Neither in front of them nor behind their backs.
Very simple, but nevertheless a trap that many computer support folks seem to fall into. I suspect there may be some tie in here with the link between technical nerddom and Aspergers syndrome, but not heeding this is a very quick way to alienate your clientèle.
You do realise that right now most of the world is laughing at the American news media, that would have us believe that a man has recently given birth (again). I don't think many conservatives would be afraid to call a woman in trousers exactly that.
Then again I suppose that's just part of the ever-onward drive for sensationalism...
And your pricing model doesn't scale - I doubt it cost $100m to create your book, but you want to sell it for 10x the price of those movie tickets.
What? Of course it scales. It's just different markets size. A movie that cost $100m to make is going to (hopefully) have a very large audience all paying $10 each. If a movie ticket cost $100 is that likely to affect the cinema attendance? I'd think so.
A text-book author will most likely sell far fewer units (say 100,000 *if* it's a good-seller), and have higher overheads per book (printing, binding, shipping, retailer costs, etc). While $100 might be something I'd consider a bit steep it's certainly not unreasonable.
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Before we write these guys off as 100% evil:
I'm not familiar with all Panasonic cameras, but the ones I've seen use Li-Ion batteries. I have read reports of some cheap Li-Ions literally exploding in appliances, and know of at least one in my area that caught fire a minute after being taken /out/ of an appliance, possibly after breaking down internally due to high current drain.
I think Panasonic have gone completely the wrong way about this, having thrown the baby out with the bathwater, but there may be some logic to it other than HP-ink-style profiteering. If it was me I'd simply make the warranty not cover damage caused by 3rd party batteries and be done with it.
so they'll be killing javascript support then?
Do you mean the latest 3.5 BETA? If we're talking official releases, then 3.0.11 is the latest Firefox.
The latest I tried (3.5b4 I believe) had utterly abysmal performance on 4 year old hardware.
Well, Firefox 3.0.10 at least still uses ridiculous amounts of memory. With 160 tabs open (across several windows) it initially takes up a couple of hundred MB. Then leaving it for a couple of days doing *absolutely nothing* it often gobbles up in excess of 2GB.
All I can say is that reports of Linux on Netbooks' death have been greatly exaggerated.
Unless I've missed something of importance in the past 2 weeks.
Why does federal (or local in some cases) government get involved when you want to start driving your own personal car?
Yes, obviously faked (just look at those scintillating beams coming from the projector).
But still not 100% impossible. Before you start wondering if a cuckoo is about to spring from my forehead, let me explain:
A few years ago researchers developed a dark cloth that reflected three very narrow wavelengths corresponding roughly to pure red, green and blue, designed for DLP and other sequential colour-channel projection technologies. This cloth would look very dark, except when illuminated with high intensities of these three wavelengths. This way you could have a small black square on your white wall, and get an effect similar to those publicity shots.
Heh,
I'm using 3.5b4 as packaged in Fedora 11. Guess what? Are you ready for this? The "Check for updates" menu item is grayed out.
If I hadn't seen it myself I'm not sure I would have believed it but there it is.
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Bing! wins again...
... unless the plates are only installed on the downramps, where they should be.
I'm pretty sure it's something closely resembling Wensleydale.
*ahem*
If what you're saying is true, then when does your court case against the US Government start?
Assuming, of course, that you're a citizen of the United States.
Sorry, to qualify it would need to display signs of intelligent life.
This is a rule that I learned very early on and can't emphasise enough:
Don't assume that someone less knowledgeable about computers than yourself must be stupid. Neither in front of them nor behind their backs.
Very simple, but nevertheless a trap that many computer support folks seem to fall into. I suspect there may be some tie in here with the link between technical nerddom and Aspergers syndrome, but not heeding this is a very quick way to alienate your clientèle.
You do realise that right now most of the world is laughing at the American news media, that would have us believe that a man has recently given birth (again). I don't think many conservatives would be afraid to call a woman in trousers exactly that.
Then again I suppose that's just part of the ever-onward drive for sensationalism...
they say, but I wish if they're just elevating the level of monitoring a bit they would choose a different name for it.
Remember you can't spell PANdemIC without panic, and that's exactly what I think the outcome will be.
Did I mention it was hot? Yes, heated wire mesh would do it.
But that sounds a lot like over-engineering...
... and then they screw it all up anyway by insisting that a terminal window must have close buttons on every single tab.
Very thin, strong wire mesh in front of all jet engines?
So... you're saying only things with something left to discover are worth preserving? Just checking.
That's about all I can say for the abomination that the Hummer became.
This innovative product could revolutionise gaming. Congratulations Microsoft, you've done it again!
(goes back to playing with Eyetoy)
How did they manage to get rid of the foam moustache afterwards? Did they need turps?
And your pricing model doesn't scale - I doubt it cost $100m to create your book, but you want to sell it for 10x the price of those movie tickets.
What? Of course it scales. It's just different markets size. A movie that cost $100m to make is going to (hopefully) have a very large audience all paying $10 each. If a movie ticket cost $100 is that likely to affect the cinema attendance? I'd think so.
A text-book author will most likely sell far fewer units (say 100,000 *if* it's a good-seller), and have higher overheads per book (printing, binding, shipping, retailer costs, etc). While $100 might be something I'd consider a bit steep it's certainly not unreasonable.
So *that's* what they've been doing with Leslie Lamport all these years.