You know, that sounds a lot like what happened to Leslie Lamport, of LaTeX fame (you could say he put the La in LaTeX). Now an employee of Microsoft Research, he oddly doesn't have time for LaTeX any more.
The cell phone really did get inspiration from Star Trek communicators. There was an interview with one of the guys at Motorola who worked on it saying something along the lines of how he saw the communicator not as an impossible sci-fi gadget, but as a challenge to make.
I always thought that was inspired by Maxwell Smart's shoe phone. Indeed, many baby boomers use the term "shoe phone" to refer to cell phones.
Thank you for your honesty. Now please do something for me. Keep your eyes open, because some baggage-handlers are moralless scum who participate in theft rings. See if you can bust any.
Because I won't put it on the Internet. That's what I have an HTPC for. And I know how to secure that. It's looking likely I will still have an HTPC in 10 years time, and nothing except standalone computers and perhaps a smartphone connected to the Internet.
Short-sighted you say? No, I've merely learned my lessons.
I hadn't considered that. Thank you for your explanation. I'll need to go think about whether floats would help in the general sense.
My instinct is to think that 16 bits would be enough, since we're still using values between 0 and 100% brightness, just with 65536 values rather than 256. I hear what you're saying though, since audio software such as Audacity deals with floats for wave amplitude (which can be considered an analogue for brightness for this purpose).
All I want to know is this: Can you select your available domains from a list, or do you still have to type in DOMAINNAME\USERNAME when logging in to a domain different from the last person who used it?
If you can't do that (as you can't in Vista/7), then there is no way it can replace XP on our student desktops.
Except ntbackup. Ntbackup can not be used on Server 2008R2 except to restore existing backups. I know, they have this new silly backup system, however it's useless for archival off-site backups.
Funnily enough by far the worst fareing bulbs I've had in my house over the past ten years have been Philips. I'm talking a 100% failure rate after one year, with some failing after two weeks. One thing I noted was that the ballasts get very hot and I suspect a critical component fails at some point. A pity I can't swap out the ballast without having to throw away a perfectly good fluorescent tube. Other brands have been fine (I have one that is over 12 years old still going strong, I forget the brand).
Great to see progress being made on LED bulbs, I'm just not sure I'll be buying them from Philips.
1. I'm not sure what you're saying. The 32/24 bpp support has been there since day one. The same maximum depth as my video card, and probably yours as well, It's only 16 bits per channel (128/96 bits per pixel) that isn't supported,
Correct, although I think you mean 64/48 bits per pixel, not 128/96.
and that's mainly an issue for those who work in the dying industry of paper-publishing, and those odd individuals who want to work on "raw" photographic images despite not being able to see the results of their manipulation.
No, that is wrong. While most pictures are saved in 24 or 32 bit formats, once loaded in a graphics program any workflow involving colour or level manipulation at 8-bits per channel (a paltry 256 shades of gray) very quickly shows up artifacts, compounding with every operation. This is a very real problem and it has been solved for pretty much every other photo editing program out there (including Krita and the GIMP fork CinePaint).
Given how often people in my area seem to change their WiFi setups, I can't imagine that old information being particularly useful.
Now call me naive, but aren't Google still collecting WiFi details with every Android phone?
Someone recently told me that Android phones with GPS enabled will scan and report SSIDs and signal strengths of local WiFi networks so that non-GPS Android devices can be located through triangulation.
When this debarcle started, I mis-parsed an article heading and was worried Apple was trying to erradicate Flashblock, and had grave fears for the web.
Nothing to see here, guys. Just another once-great company that's partnered with Microsoft. Some may care to stay to watch as the parasite devours it from inside.
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This is a joke, right? Please tell me you're joking.
You know, that sounds a lot like what happened to Leslie Lamport, of LaTeX fame (you could say he put the La in LaTeX). Now an employee of Microsoft Research, he oddly doesn't have time for LaTeX any more.
The cell phone really did get inspiration from Star Trek communicators. There was an interview with one of the guys at Motorola who worked on it saying something along the lines of how he saw the communicator not as an impossible sci-fi gadget, but as a challenge to make.
I always thought that was inspired by Maxwell Smart's shoe phone. Indeed, many baby boomers use the term "shoe phone" to refer to cell phones.
Thank you for your honesty. Now please do something for me. Keep your eyes open, because some baggage-handlers are moralless scum who participate in theft rings. See if you can bust any.
Thanks
Another example of the over-commercialization of sport.
Does anyone remember when sporting events were about, well, sport?
Me neither, but surely it hasn't always been this bad has it?
When amateur astronomers gather, they talk about telescopes.
I have observed this, and couldn't help but think of Edsger Dijkstra.
I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less.
That's very interesting. Would you please share your test setup for others to replicate, for other model bulbs?
thanks
That may be so where you live, but here in New Zealand my experience with Philips CFLs has been terrible (see my comment in this thread).
Mind you we do use 230V here so perhaps they never designed for that aspect properly.
Penn has spoken in defense of Teller on this.
Well he'd have to, wouldn't he?
(cheap shot, I know)
Because I won't put it on the Internet. That's what I have an HTPC for. And I know how to secure that. It's looking likely I will still have an HTPC in 10 years time, and nothing except standalone computers and perhaps a smartphone connected to the Internet.
Short-sighted you say? No, I've merely learned my lessons.
I hadn't considered that. Thank you for your explanation. I'll need to go think about whether floats would help in the general sense.
My instinct is to think that 16 bits would be enough, since we're still using values between 0 and 100% brightness, just with 65536 values rather than 256. I hear what you're saying though, since audio software such as Audacity deals with floats for wave amplitude (which can be considered an analogue for brightness for this purpose).
+5, funny.
You made the exact joke that I was about to make. Well done, sir.
All I want to know is this: Can you select your available domains from a list, or do you still have to type in DOMAINNAME\USERNAME when logging in to a domain different from the last person who used it?
If you can't do that (as you can't in Vista/7), then there is no way it can replace XP on our student desktops.
Keep using it.
Was that a serious question?
Except ntbackup. Ntbackup can not be used on Server 2008R2 except to restore existing backups. I know, they have this new silly backup system, however it's useless for archival off-site backups.
Funnily enough by far the worst fareing bulbs I've had in my house over the past ten years have been Philips. I'm talking a 100% failure rate after one year, with some failing after two weeks. One thing I noted was that the ballasts get very hot and I suspect a critical component fails at some point. A pity I can't swap out the ballast without having to throw away a perfectly good fluorescent tube. Other brands have been fine (I have one that is over 12 years old still going strong, I forget the brand).
Great to see progress being made on LED bulbs, I'm just not sure I'll be buying them from Philips.
1. I'm not sure what you're saying. The 32/24 bpp support has been there since day one. The same maximum depth as my video card, and probably yours as well, It's only 16 bits per channel (128/96 bits per pixel) that isn't supported,
Correct, although I think you mean 64/48 bits per pixel, not 128/96.
and that's mainly an issue for those who work in the dying industry of paper-publishing, and those odd individuals who want to work on "raw" photographic images despite not being able to see the results of their manipulation.
No, that is wrong. While most pictures are saved in 24 or 32 bit formats, once loaded in a graphics program any workflow involving colour or level manipulation at 8-bits per channel (a paltry 256 shades of gray) very quickly shows up artifacts, compounding with every operation. This is a very real problem and it has been solved for pretty much every other photo editing program out there (including Krita and the GIMP fork CinePaint).
Given how often people in my area seem to change their WiFi setups, I can't imagine that old information being particularly useful.
Now call me naive, but aren't Google still collecting WiFi details with every Android phone?
Someone recently told me that Android phones with GPS enabled will scan and report SSIDs and signal strengths of local WiFi networks so that non-GPS Android devices can be located through triangulation.
Perhaps someone over at Qualcomm could be talked into reverse engineering it?
But seriously, for your work on this GPU driver, thank you.
I have. They keep ringing me and kindly telling me how to remove viruses from my computer by giving them RDP access.
Though they usually hang up after I tell them that XFCE doesn't have a Start button.
When this debarcle started, I mis-parsed an article heading and was worried Apple was trying to erradicate Flashblock, and had grave fears for the web.
Not with that attitude.
Seriously, what's happened to you Americans? Damned well make it happen.
Nothing to see here, guys. Just another once-great company that's partnered with Microsoft. Some may care to stay to watch as the parasite devours it from inside.
Because it's crap, that's why.