Yeah, but he did say decent photo quality. In my books that still means film.
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Some people may want all these useless features.. for them the camera vendors can have their own special overfeatured model. I would rather have one that's simple and obvious...
Interesting you should say that because it's exactly the reason that most cameras have all the useless features you outlined. It's become abundantly clear to me over the last 25 years that the number of people who want/can use totally manual cameras is exceedingly small. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but all the belly-aching in the world isn't going to change that fundamental fact.
And what's with the confusing term "digital SLR" ? As far as I can see, all digital cameras with LCD viewfinders are by definition SLRs, since the same lens is used for viewing and taking the picture.
As one comment has already noted, reflex refers to the reflection of the image to the viewfinder. The rest of the story is that the relected image gets projected on a screen for eye-level viewing of the image. Non-slr digital cameras always have an eye-level optical viewfinder. So what you see in the viewfinder is totally separate from the image being photographed.
So if the next bad warming experience was as bad as the one 50 some million years ago
So what! Whether or not there has been a similar warming in the past is totally irrelevant to the discussion.
Analogy: Someone goes out and shoots a twenty-year-old dead. When they go on trial, they tell the judge that its really not a problem, because the guys great-grandpa had died too. In fact, he died of causes totally unrelated to firearms. Sure it might be a bit inconvenient to the family, but if they roll up their sleeves and deal with it, its not that bad really.
When I was a kid I found this already old book called (?) "The Art of Ciphering". That's a guess since I haven't seen the book in probably 35 years. But I remember some of the techniques in it. I was a farm kid at the time so while doing field work I'd have long blocks of time (as much as 10-12 hours a day) without much to occupy my mind. So I filled the time doing math in my head. I got pretty good at multiplying 4-digit x 4-digit, 5-digit x 5-digit, etc. in my head. Also extracting square roots, doing Roman fractions, and other stuff.
As I did these arithmetic problems, I found that my mind developed a kind of blackboard. I could visualize the problem and effectively "write" the answer without worrying about keeping track of everything as separate digits.
My advice: Find a good algorithm, practice a lot (yep, hours and hours), draw a picture in your mind.
The bonus of doing this is that later when I started studying math, the visualization I'd developed helped lots in advanced courses. I could "see" solutions almost instantly that would take others awhile to derive and even then they wouldn't really understand the relationships which led to the solution.
I had a laptop which had been too long in a monsoon climate. I opened the case and took out the drive and gave it the jerky 90 degree turn a few times, quickly plugged it back in and voila it spun up. Not having a replacement drive I just kept using it. After opening the case several times I realized that I could just give the laptop the same spin and the drive would spin up. Eventually I opened the foil cover on the drive case and stuck the drive in a dry place (a ziplock bag with several fresh silica gel packets) for a few days. Last time I tried it was still working.
I have a lot of respect for Nielsen, but... IANAL but I'm quite certain that you can only patent innovations when they are truly innovative. For example, as a c++ programmer I notice that no one has patented a while-loop that compares user input to "y" or "n" to determine whether the user would like to enter more data. So I patent it as my "1-letter" loop. Never mind that loops are built-in to the language. Never mind that its an obvious application of loops. The patent office will probably give me a patent. But I wouldn't be able to defend it in court.
Google doesn't do vaporware! Their betas are better than most company's releases.
Besides, twelve thousand is a really large number to start with when you're expecting (for a few generations anyway) exponential growth. I wish we knew more about how they selected the twelve thousand. Probably a few turkeys in the lot already...
I used an IBM 6091-19 until I went to a duel boot. M$ Windows just can't wrap its little mind around a fixed frequency monitor.;-) The 6091-19 is a big sharp monitor built around a Sony Trinitron tube. Mine was getting dark until I screwed around (pun intended) inside the case. I'd still be using it if I didn't have to use Visual Studio occasionally.
step 1: buy something that displays the temperature
step 2: buy a webcam
step 3: place the temperature display in a well lit area and point the webcam at it.
MIT's commitment to put all their course material online is unprecedented. Within the ed tech community it got a huge amount of press when it was launched. I'm always surprised to find otherwise computer literate educators who don't know about it. There have been various other efforts, but nothing which comes anywhere near the scope and financial commitment of OpenCourseware.
From the CITA McKenzie FAQ: At a total cost of CDN$900K (including tax), it is probably the best price performer in the world with a price:performance ratio of $0.75/Mflops.
The poster must have mistaken an M for a G.
This really make KASY0 look even better since it beat a competing claim for price/performance by a factor of six.
Given the sharp decline, this highlights another way that/. could help alleviate/.ing of sites: stagger the time that a certain client gets informed of a new article.
Unless you also stagger the moderation you'd put a large number of karma whores out of business. The story would have to look fresh (without a large number of comments) even to those who don't see it for a couple of hours. I think it'd be unworkable!
Here is another link describing the same event. Its not quite as negative about the technology, but stronger on the need for a peculiar emotion called love.
1. There are more standards in Open Software than MS will ever have. Perhaps you meant consistency. 2. If you spend much time working with various versions of MS OS's and app's you'll soon realize that MS is not very consistent either. I've known lots of folks over the years who have had to use Star Office/Open Office or even Word Perfect, to edit old MS Word docs that the new version of Word wouldn't edit. 3. Even if it were true that MS was consistent and based on standards, that has less to do with proprietary vs open software and more to do with the fact that virtually everyone who has purchased a PC over the last 15 years has paid athe Windows tax(r) (about $100) to MS. Given the amount of resources MS has had to play with I'm always shocked at the poor usability of Windows. Apple has consistently beaten them in every usability survey. And Open Source isn't far behind.
Their strategy seems well thought out and could be a model for other similar efforts. I seem to remember that it's going to cost them on the order of $100 million to achieve their goal of _all_ MIT course material online.
Plus how can you call a circular (no, its not a sphere) sun with a series of plastic balls stretched out in a more or less straight line a scale model. Has the solar system ever seen this configuration???
A couple of years ago I took an online course in developing online courses.
My impression was that the Prof worked as harder or harder than in most face-to-face classes. Everytime I submitted an assignment it was returned graded within 24 hrs. Usually if I submitted in the morning it was returned in that afternoon and when I submitted in the afternoon it was returned the next morning. This was even true when I submitted them on weekends. He responded to emails even more quickly usually in less than an hour, frequently in 5-10 minutes.
Since it was a course in developing online courses, we talked about the amount of time it takes for the instructor. It was my Prof's belief that an online course took more of his time than a traditional class. In fact he limited the number in the class after the first time it was given because of this constraint.
The really nice thing about the course was that it provided for a broad range of learning styles. The main lectures were done in RealAudio with HTML "slides". But there were plenty of optional reference materials that a person could browse at the same time: outlines, transcripts, glossaries, etc. That plus the fact that I could instantly "rewind" and review anything I didn't quite follow made it a very good learning experience.
My guess is that you have instructors who barely know the material themselves, didn't develop the course materials themselves, have no educational training and are earning a pitifully low salary. That would be par for the course (no pun intended) in todays educational environment.
From the paper: Another way of thinking about smoothed complexity is to observe that if an algorithm has low smoothed complexity, then one must be unlucky to choose an input instance on which it performs poorly.
If my first scan of paper yielded anything worth reporting it's the idea that even though a worst case may take exponential time to solve, there is always a neighborhood around the worst case that can be solved in polynomial time and has (almost) the same solution. In other words you can always find a good enough solution quickly.
BTW, those of you who described the idea as largely philosophical were wrong! The paper is mathematically rigorous. It uses the 80 pages to develop the theorems necessary to prove the idea.
Linear programming has become a necessary part of basic mathematical literacy. Most secondary-level Algebra 2 books include it with some rudimentary graphical methods for solving problems. I'd be surprised if most slashdotters didn't have some knowledge of linear programming.
Google currently claims to be indexing around 3 billion pages. So if 70 % goes unread thats still about 1 billion pages that get read on a regular basis. That's amazing!
The cost of publication on the internet is so low that it just makes sense to include everything including the kitchen sink. The key is good design heirarchy so that the esoteric stuff doesn't distract the casual reader.
Syntax error: there is more things to go wrong... Syntax error: it is very hard to right code that will not crash under any circumstances
Interesting that the first two posts in the thread had English syntax errors in their first sentences. We can still understand it, but compilers/CPUs would have problems. Seems that the real problem is the difference in the natures of wetware and hardware.
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You neglected to specify digital or film
Yeah, but he did say decent photo quality. In my books that still means film.
Some people may want all these useless features.. for them the camera vendors can have their own special overfeatured model. I would rather have one that's simple and obvious...
Interesting you should say that because it's exactly the reason that most cameras have all the useless features you outlined. It's become abundantly clear to me over the last 25 years that the number of people who want/can use totally manual cameras is exceedingly small. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but all the belly-aching in the world isn't going to change that fundamental fact.
And what's with the confusing term "digital SLR" ? As far as I can see, all digital cameras with LCD viewfinders are by definition SLRs, since the same lens is used for viewing and taking the picture.
As one comment has already noted, reflex refers to the reflection of the image to the viewfinder. The rest of the story is that the relected image gets projected on a screen for eye-level viewing of the image. Non-slr digital cameras always have an eye-level optical viewfinder. So what you see in the viewfinder is totally separate from the image being photographed.
Whoops! Must have misread the title...but it seems appropriate.
So if the next bad warming experience was as bad as the one 50 some million years ago So what! Whether or not there has been a similar warming in the past is totally irrelevant to the discussion.
Analogy: Someone goes out and shoots a twenty-year-old dead. When they go on trial, they tell the judge that its really not a problem, because the guys great-grandpa had died too. In fact, he died of causes totally unrelated to firearms. Sure it might be a bit inconvenient to the family, but if they roll up their sleeves and deal with it, its not that bad really.
A: mc
When I was a kid I found this already old book called (?) "The Art of Ciphering". That's a guess since I haven't seen the book in probably 35 years. But I remember some of the techniques in it. I was a farm kid at the time so while doing field work I'd have long blocks of time (as much as 10-12 hours a day) without much to occupy my mind. So I filled the time doing math in my head. I got pretty good at multiplying 4-digit x 4-digit, 5-digit x 5-digit, etc. in my head. Also extracting square roots, doing Roman fractions, and other stuff.
As I did these arithmetic problems, I found that my mind developed a kind of blackboard. I could visualize the problem and effectively "write" the answer without worrying about keeping track of everything as separate digits.
My advice: Find a good algorithm, practice a lot (yep, hours and hours), draw a picture in your mind.
The bonus of doing this is that later when I started studying math, the visualization I'd developed helped lots in advanced courses. I could "see" solutions almost instantly that would take others awhile to derive and even then they wouldn't really understand the relationships which led to the solution.
I had a laptop which had been too long in a monsoon climate. I opened the case and took out the drive and gave it the jerky 90 degree turn a few times, quickly plugged it back in and voila it spun up. Not having a replacement drive I just kept using it. After opening the case several times I realized that I could just give the laptop the same spin and the drive would spin up. Eventually I opened the foil cover on the drive case and stuck the drive in a dry place (a ziplock bag with several fresh silica gel packets) for a few days. Last time I tried it was still working.
My first first post.
I have a lot of respect for Nielsen, but...
IANAL but I'm quite certain that you can only patent innovations when they are truly innovative. For example, as a c++ programmer I notice that no one has patented a while-loop that compares user input to "y" or "n" to determine whether the user would like to enter more data. So I patent it as my "1-letter" loop. Never mind that loops are built-in to the language. Never mind that its an obvious application of loops. The patent office will probably give me a patent. But I wouldn't be able to defend it in court.
This is the BEST vaporware campaign EVER!
Google doesn't do vaporware! Their betas are better than most company's releases.
Besides, twelve thousand is a really large number to start with when you're expecting (for a few generations anyway) exponential growth. I wish we knew more about how they selected the twelve thousand. Probably a few turkeys in the lot already...
I used an IBM 6091-19 until I went to a duel boot. M$ Windows just can't wrap its little mind around a fixed frequency monitor. ;-) The 6091-19 is a big sharp monitor built around a Sony Trinitron tube. Mine was getting dark until I screwed around (pun intended) inside the case. I'd still be using it if I didn't have to use Visual Studio occasionally.
step 1: buy something that displays the temperature
step 2: buy a webcam
step 3: place the temperature display in a well lit area and point the webcam at it.
Ah yes, the old optical coupling trick..
MIT's commitment to put all their course material online is unprecedented. Within the ed tech community it got a huge amount of press when it was launched. I'm always surprised to find otherwise computer literate educators who don't know about it. There have been various other efforts, but nothing which comes anywhere near the scope and financial commitment of OpenCourseware.
From the CITA McKenzie FAQ: At a total cost of CDN$900K (including tax), it is probably the best price performer in the world with a price:performance ratio of $0.75/Mflops.
The poster must have mistaken an M for a G.
This really make KASY0 look even better since it beat a competing claim for price/performance by a factor of six.
Given the sharp decline, this highlights another way that /. could help alleviate /.ing of sites: stagger the time that a certain client gets informed of a new article.
Unless you also stagger the moderation you'd put a large number of karma whores out of business. The story would have to look fresh (without a large number of comments) even to those who don't see it for a couple of hours. I think it'd be unworkable!
Here is another link describing the same event. Its not quite as negative about the technology, but stronger on the need for a peculiar emotion called love.
Guess there is a lot to be said for a standard.
1. There are more standards in Open Software than MS will ever have. Perhaps you meant consistency.
2. If you spend much time working with various versions of MS OS's and app's you'll soon realize that MS is not very consistent either. I've known lots of folks over the years who have had to use Star Office/Open Office or even Word Perfect, to edit old MS Word docs that the new version of Word wouldn't edit.
3. Even if it were true that MS was consistent and based on standards, that has less to do with proprietary vs open software and more to do with the fact that virtually everyone who has purchased a PC over the last 15 years has paid athe Windows tax(r) (about $100) to MS. Given the amount of resources MS has had to play with I'm always shocked at the poor usability of Windows. Apple has consistently beaten them in every usability survey. And Open Source isn't far behind.
Sorry, but X is there. So maybe you don't like the XFree86 implementation, but its certainly there.
Have you checked out the MIT OpenCourseWare?
Their strategy seems well thought out and could be a model for other similar efforts. I seem to remember that it's going to cost them on the order of $100 million to achieve their goal of _all_ MIT course material online.
This is a dupe
Plus how can you call a circular (no, its not a sphere) sun with a series of plastic balls stretched out in a more or less straight line a scale model. Has the solar system ever seen this configuration???
A couple of years ago I took an online course in developing online courses.
My impression was that the Prof worked as harder or harder than in most face-to-face classes. Everytime I submitted an assignment it was returned graded within 24 hrs. Usually if I submitted in the morning it was returned in that afternoon and when I submitted in the afternoon it was returned the next morning. This was even true when I submitted them on weekends. He responded to emails even more quickly usually in less than an hour, frequently in 5-10 minutes.
Since it was a course in developing online courses, we talked about the amount of time it takes for the instructor. It was my Prof's belief that an online course took more of his time than a traditional class. In fact he limited the number in the class after the first time it was given because of this constraint.
The really nice thing about the course was that it provided for a broad range of learning styles. The main lectures were done in RealAudio with HTML "slides". But there were plenty of optional reference materials that a person could browse at the same time: outlines, transcripts, glossaries, etc. That plus the fact that I could instantly "rewind" and review anything I didn't quite follow made it a very good learning experience.
My guess is that you have instructors who barely know the material themselves, didn't develop the course materials themselves, have no educational training and are earning a pitifully low salary. That would be par for the course (no pun intended) in todays educational environment.
From the paper:
Another way of thinking about smoothed complexity is to observe that if an algorithm has low smoothed complexity, then one must be unlucky to choose an input instance on which it performs poorly.
If my first scan of paper yielded anything worth reporting it's the idea that even though a worst case may take exponential time to solve, there is always a neighborhood around the worst case that can be solved in polynomial time and has (almost) the same solution. In other words you can always find a good enough solution quickly.
BTW, those of you who described the idea as largely philosophical were wrong! The paper is mathematically rigorous. It uses the 80 pages to develop the theorems necessary to prove the idea.
Linear programming has become a necessary part of basic mathematical literacy. Most secondary-level Algebra 2 books include it with some rudimentary graphical methods for solving problems. I'd be surprised if most slashdotters didn't have some knowledge of linear programming.
So what...
Google currently claims to be indexing around 3 billion pages. So if 70 % goes unread thats still about 1 billion pages that get read on a regular basis. That's amazing!
The cost of publication on the internet is so low that it just makes sense to include everything including the kitchen sink. The key is good design heirarchy so that the esoteric stuff doesn't distract the casual reader.
Syntax error: there is more things to go wrong...
Syntax error: it is very hard to right code that will not crash under any circumstances
Interesting that the first two posts in the thread had English syntax errors in their first sentences. We can still understand it, but compilers/CPUs would have problems. Seems that the real problem is the difference in the natures of wetware and hardware.