A friend of mine recently found out from her hosting provider that RH would be ending support for RH 7 and 8 by the end of the year as well, and they are "suggesting" that they upgrade to RHEL 3, if they want support. And, oh yeah, it will cost more per month.
Cellphones with cameras actually don't suffer much in battery life. While the camera does use a lot of power, it only uses it when you take a shot, so the duty cycle is really low and over the long term it doesn't end up being a real power drain. Compare a half-second of picture taking with a 20 minute call on the phone while you are continuiously transmitting and receiving, and you can see why the camera power is pretty miniscule.
My wife has a Sanyo SCP-5300 (with extended battery though) and its battery seems to last as long as any other cellphone. The external display of the SCP-5300 is low-power OLED, and the internal hi-res screen is LCD (again, only on when you are taking or looking at a picture).
I hook up my 11 megapixel Canon EOS 1Ds to a laptiop with slott-in GPRS / GSM card. That gives me an 11 Mpx (nearly-)mobile phone.
Yes, but you can't carry it in your pocket.
I think most people are missing out on the real uses for cellular phone cams. It is the form factor that is the win. Most people take snapshots, they don't care too much about the quality of the shot if they can easilly have the camera with them at all times, as they currently do with their cellphones.
BTW, for an example cellphone cam blog, see CarlaZone.
As someone who moves hundreds of GB per day, I can assure you that the Drive controller is probably the most important piece of equipment when it comes to real-world HD performance. A $1000 controller will do 2-3x faster throughput than a $200 one, even with SCSI drives. Drive bus speeds and such don't seem to matter. OK, I'm only talking RAID arrays of course.
Acutally I'd say "this is the year of HD." HD glass sets are now below $2000, and VOOM, a 39 HD channel satellite service, is launching. They'll even have HD porn.
Keep in mind that the vast majority of people receive TV from cable or DBS satellite. Cable systems are lining up more HD channels for digital cable, and now satellite is adding HD content to stay competitive as well.
That said, the industry "dirty secret" is that many over-the-air HD broadcasts are done at a higher bitrate (and higher quality) than most satellite HD feeds.
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Whilst lovesick in college, I wrote my initials "+" my girlfriend's on a microchip.
When she later dumped me, I was glad it was only a hundred microns across...
Ironically, it was those god worshiping Quakers that fought to make our constitution a secular one.
Here in Maryland, there were many Quakers who were fined, imprisoned, and driven off their land for refusal to take an oath (to God) of loyalty to the United States shortly after the founding of the country. This included Quakers who were earlier important in organizing the revolution.
Indeed, labor price differentials across borders are mich higher than goods price differentials. Liberalizing world labor flows would bring far more global wealth increase than just liberalizing world trade flows.
The Temporary Movement of Natural Persons (TMNP) is a mechanism to provide some liberalizing of labor flows by allowing guest workers into countries temporailly. There is a TMNP bill with Mexico, the Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act, introduced by Senator McCain and Congressmen Kolbe and Flake.
The US faces a massive current account deficit with the rest of the world. There are three solutions. #1 is to start a massive global trade war, just like before the Great Depression. #2 is to devalue the dollar, leading to massive US inflation.
The third solution is to recognize that some industry will grow in India and China, and that people there will finally be able to afford more American products. 40 million Chinese now have $1000 or more per year to spend on home remnnovation, hello Home Depot China!
There are no regulations regarding "non clear" transmissions that are ancillary to your main television service. Already there is data going in many vertical blank and horizontal blank (Microsoft Actimates) intervals on analog TV. Now there is Dotcast modulation as well.
In the DTV realm, you have the possibility of sending IP encapsulated in MPEG-2 transport stream, which is fairly standardized. Already there have been tests of sending Windows Media UDP streams and multicast file transfers over DTV signals, while at the same time other MPEG-2 PIDs carry "in the clear" MPEG-2 video streams. It is really up to the DTV station how they want to split up their 19.3 Mbps of data, as long as one primary service is "in the clear".
A slightly alternative and more precise examination of the economic study of social behavior can be found in the works of Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker.
When is it selfish to support a better environment for yourself?
Many people also recognize that enhancing the welfare of others can enhance your own welfare. It means a generally improved economy, which will flow benefits to everyone.
The basis of economic theory is that people, when free to act, will act in ways that most benefit themselves.
People buy gifts because it makes them happy, either in the pleasure of choosing and giving or the benefits they feel will be derived from giving gifts to others.
Heroin addicts often perceive the most benefit from not going into painful withdrawl...at the expense of all other actions.
DIGEX (the backbone provider) ran multiple dial-up phone lines to Tuktoyaktuk over Bell Canada microwave links to provide IP connectivity for live video broadcasts during the Molson Polar Beach Party. This was an early example of multiplexing dial-up lines using a router.
If the Media companies would be willing to cheaply let people legally download ALL music and ALL movies and ALL television shows, there would be a huge market for broadband.
Back in 1998, Ashcroft introduced the E-PRIVACY (Encryption Protects the Rights of Individuals from Violation and Abuse in CYberspace) Act:
"The E-PRIVACY Act would continue to allow U.S. citizens to use strong encryption. It would prohibit laws requiring encryption users to store a key to their data with a third party. The bill would alter current export policies by allowing license exceptions for mass-market encryption products that are generally available after a one-time review by the Department of Commerce."
On the Mexican side, Bush was working with Vincente Fox to allow temporary worker permits to Mexicans to better handle the "illegal alien" problem by making migrant workers "legal." That was before 9/11.
Of course, the same number of illegal aliens still enter the country from Mexico. We would be better off regulating them rather than putting our head in the sand.
I think this is the issue. Every time I've had a Linux web site hacked, it has been through an application, and particular Linux applications have truly bad security histories. I bet that PHP Nuke represents the majority of hacked Linux web sites...probably followed by FTP server exploits.
Of course there have been others incidents, like the great OpenSSL caper.
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A friend of mine recently found out from her hosting provider that RH would be ending support for RH 7 and 8 by the end of the year as well, and they are "suggesting" that they upgrade to RHEL 3, if they want support. And, oh yeah, it will cost more per month.
If you look at a euopean food-labels, sometime you can seem them writen as kcal.
Or in some countries it is in kilojoules.
Cellphones with cameras actually don't suffer much in battery life. While the camera does use a lot of power, it only uses it when you take a shot, so the duty cycle is really low and over the long term it doesn't end up being a real power drain. Compare a half-second of picture taking with a 20 minute call on the phone while you are continuiously transmitting and receiving, and you can see why the camera power is pretty miniscule.
My wife has a Sanyo SCP-5300 (with extended battery though) and its battery seems to last as long as any other cellphone. The external display of the SCP-5300 is low-power OLED, and the internal hi-res screen is LCD (again, only on when you are taking or looking at a picture).
I hook up my 11 megapixel Canon EOS 1Ds to a laptiop with slott-in GPRS / GSM card. That gives me an 11 Mpx (nearly-)mobile phone.
Yes, but you can't carry it in your pocket.
I think most people are missing out on the real uses for cellular phone cams. It is the form factor that is the win. Most people take snapshots, they don't care too much about the quality of the shot if they can easilly have the camera with them at all times, as they currently do with their cellphones.
BTW, for an example cellphone cam blog, see CarlaZone.
As someone who moves hundreds of GB per day, I can assure you that the Drive controller is probably the most important piece of equipment when it comes to real-world HD performance. A $1000 controller will do 2-3x faster throughput than a $200 one, even with SCSI drives. Drive bus speeds and such don't seem to matter. OK, I'm only talking RAID arrays of course.
And lasres are "the perfect peacetime weapon." Wouldn't it have been a lot better to vaporize Sadam? Castro? Kim-Jong Il?
Acutally I'd say "this is the year of HD." HD glass sets are now below $2000, and VOOM, a 39 HD channel satellite service, is launching. They'll even have HD porn.
Keep in mind that the vast majority of people receive TV from cable or DBS satellite. Cable systems are lining up more HD channels for digital cable, and now satellite is adding HD content to stay competitive as well.
That said, the industry "dirty secret" is that many over-the-air HD broadcasts are done at a higher bitrate (and higher quality) than most satellite HD feeds.
Whilst lovesick in college, I wrote my initials "+" my girlfriend's on a microchip.
When she later dumped me, I was glad it was only a hundred microns across...
Ironically, it was those god worshiping Quakers that fought to make our constitution a secular one.
Here in Maryland, there were many Quakers who were fined, imprisoned, and driven off their land for refusal to take an oath (to God) of loyalty to the United States shortly after the founding of the country. This included Quakers who were earlier important in organizing the revolution.
Indeed, labor price differentials across borders are mich higher than goods price differentials. Liberalizing world labor flows would bring far more global wealth increase than just liberalizing world trade flows.
The Temporary Movement of Natural Persons (TMNP) is a mechanism to provide some liberalizing of labor flows by allowing guest workers into countries temporailly. There is a TMNP bill with Mexico, the Border Security and Immigration Improvement Act, introduced by Senator McCain and Congressmen Kolbe and Flake.
You can read about Robert Reich's views on offshoring, and he is definately not a Republican.
The US faces a massive current account deficit with the rest of the world. There are three solutions. #1 is to start a massive global trade war, just like before the Great Depression. #2 is to devalue the dollar, leading to massive US inflation.
The third solution is to recognize that some industry will grow in India and China, and that people there will finally be able to afford more American products. 40 million Chinese now have $1000 or more per year to spend on home remnnovation, hello Home Depot China!
There are no regulations regarding "non clear" transmissions that are ancillary to your main television service. Already there is data going in many vertical blank and horizontal blank (Microsoft Actimates) intervals on analog TV. Now there is Dotcast modulation as well.
In the DTV realm, you have the possibility of sending IP encapsulated in MPEG-2 transport stream, which is fairly standardized. Already there have been tests of sending Windows Media UDP streams and multicast file transfers over DTV signals, while at the same time other MPEG-2 PIDs carry "in the clear" MPEG-2 video streams. It is really up to the DTV station how they want to split up their 19.3 Mbps of data, as long as one primary service is "in the clear".
Back in "the day," I remember a TI microcomputer with a "Warm Start" button, essentially a single key Ctrl-Alt-Del.
Uranium prices have dropped significantly since the 1970's, to the point where there are no commercially viable fuel reproccessing operations.
Moreover, it appears that there are nuclear solutions such as accelerator driven fusion which can use abundent Thorium as a source fuel.
Check out how to make ball lightning in your microwave at /etc video show titled "Fun with High Voltage Electrical Discharges".
A slightly alternative and more precise examination of the economic study of social behavior can be found in the works of Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker.
You can read an interview with him here, or examine his book Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment, or check out his Nobel Prize speech.
When is it selfish to support a better environment for yourself?
Many people also recognize that enhancing the welfare of others can enhance your own welfare. It means a generally improved economy, which will flow benefits to everyone.
The basis of economic theory is that people, when free to act, will act in ways that most benefit themselves.
People buy gifts because it makes them happy, either in the pleasure of choosing and giving or the benefits they feel will be derived from giving gifts to others.
Heroin addicts often perceive the most benefit from not going into painful withdrawl...at the expense of all other actions.
"Rational acting" is in the mind of the beholder.
DIGEX (the backbone provider) ran multiple dial-up phone lines to Tuktoyaktuk over Bell Canada microwave links to provide IP connectivity for live video broadcasts during the Molson Polar Beach Party. This was an early example of multiplexing dial-up lines using a router.
If the Media companies would be willing to cheaply let people legally download ALL music and ALL movies and ALL television shows, there would be a huge market for broadband.
Hey, can you put your beam collider plans online?
Back in 1998, Ashcroft introduced the E-PRIVACY (Encryption Protects the Rights of Individuals from Violation and Abuse in CYberspace) Act:
"The E-PRIVACY Act would continue to allow U.S. citizens to use strong encryption. It would prohibit laws requiring encryption users to store a key to their data with a third party. The bill would alter current export policies by allowing license exceptions for mass-market encryption products that are generally available after a one-time review by the Department of Commerce."
Funny how people change...
On the Mexican side, Bush was working with Vincente Fox to allow temporary worker permits to Mexicans to better handle the "illegal alien" problem by making migrant workers "legal." That was before 9/11.
Of course, the same number of illegal aliens still enter the country from Mexico. We would be better off regulating them rather than putting our head in the sand.
How does Jabber solve the NAT problem?
If there wasn't the NAT problem with broadband routers, H.323 would be used by a lot of people (through NetMeeting/OpenH323/etc.)
Yahoo IM is the only "free beer" videoconferencing IM solution that doesn't have a NAT/firewall problem.
I think this is the issue. Every time I've had a Linux web site hacked, it has been through an application, and particular Linux applications have truly bad security histories. I bet that PHP Nuke represents the majority of hacked Linux web sites...probably followed by FTP server exploits.
Of course there have been others incidents, like the great OpenSSL caper.