Ok 261 megapixel, yeah, cool, but, since RED cameras use canon/nikon photo lenses how they suppose to obtain such a resolution? I mean, currently with new cameras (like 5dMkII) coming out we are allready speaking about lens limits (also for "top" lenses like L marked ones). So, how can they push this camera to that resolution without enlarging sensor size? For 261 megapixel you will need AT LEAST 6x6 sensor rather than normal 35mm. And 6x6 sensor requires really big lenses (like hasselblad) and probably won't keep up either. So, i think there is too much "megapixel" marketing here rather than "real" resolution.
We have allready wireless last mile access using 3G networks like UMTS, the service i currently use supports till 3.6Mbit which is really similar to a entry level DSL line, but this is not going to be comparable to DSL services in town for a lot of reasons.
First of all is "mobile", and telco's are used to make the user pay for this "extra" feature, and, it's unstable, latency is greater than cable and latency/jitter is the real user percerption of speed when surfing with a browser or using voip.
So, really, don't know, i think WiMax will be great were no other connectivity alternative is possible, but, in big cities, cabling will be the best solution for a long long time.
Microsoft knows that this player is going to be hacked. As in windows piracy will be its success, people will buy it because it will be able to share music illegally with an illegal firmware. Once spread microsoft will close it a little more and open a "itune" online store rival. Story repeats itself...
The big problem with ldap is that most of autentication plugins (apache, pam and the others) matches only first level group members, not nested groups, normally used, expecially, in big micro$oft directories. This creates a lot of "difficul to mantain" groups containing very big lists of accounts. I know that filters or organizational units can be used to group them, but most of the times this is not enaugh. For this reason i usually prefer radius which integrates well *nix and m$ worlds (even if i still use ldap for apache cause radius mod for apache is not so customizable).
Ok, maybe an internet connection faster than 54mbps is rare, but, why should one think that wifi is used just for internet access? You use "ethernet" just for internet access? If i need to copy an iso file from my laptop (or if i need to mount a remote iso) to/from an intranet file server having 600mbit make a real difference.
So, ok, for internet access 11 could be enaugh, but, for intranet stuff (expecially in big companies), fast wifi could be very useful.
Why (americans companies, usually) are so excited by free drinks and good food facilities INSIDE working place? I mean, in europe we are used to go out of office for lunch, every day, possibly changing place anytime possible, or even going at home if close enaugh, so what's the good points of having free coke inside work? It's nothing healty, nor expensive if you want to but it yourself, so, i can't really understand why google and other big companies tries to gain people attention showing this bonuses (i'm referring to the photos). I can't just understand, here in italy it doesn't make any "plus" having free coke inside the office, it's just useless, at lunch, you go out, you sit down, and eat, possibly with people different from the ones you see at work. It's just better than anything inside my workplace.
Java must embrace SWT and start doing GUIs in a fast, portable, native way. SWING is slow, redundant and ugly. IBM knows the right way, SUN should follow them or surrender to.NET (both windows and mono have NATIVE widgets stuff).
Screen is a terminal which can survive connection problems. You can start your script, detach terminal, and then came back 10 minutes later and watch what its doing.
I know, that's not "fault tolerant", but, most of the times, its enaugh.
Kaffe is a free java vm, why they did it? Because now, if you want free java on ipaq, kaffe is a good solution. Also because kaffe is open source so its chanches of porting are better. And sometimes is quite faster then sun vm.
Mozilla when was started it wasn't as good as explorer, or opera, both were free, so, why start another project? Now, a lot of people thinks mozilla is the best browser.
Toshiba has an unofficial linux (and also *nix in general) support site at http://newsletter.toshiba-tro.de/main/ this is a lot useful to find machine hardware spec and linux (netware, *bsd) compatibility.
Cpu grows following moore law, memory become cheaper and faster, video cards and busses are fast enaugh. But there are still 2 problems:
- DISKS ARE SLOW! DAMN SLOW! TOO SLOW! If we dont find a viable alternative 10TB ethernet will be unusable.
- BATTERIES SUCKS! We need a more stable, longlasting way of providing mobile energy.
If we still have bottlenecks like these there won't be any real advantage by this stuff.
Everything in pc market is going faster month by month, everything but disks. Disks are becoming a bottleneck, sure, but we dont need to replace them with RAM, we need to replace them with a good subsitute. Ibm NanoDrives could be the answer, dunno (speed like RAM, 100gb/cm, no power needed to keep data...), but, RAM is RAM, hard disks are hard disks, we need just better ones.
Thats the reason windows servers are more vulnerable to attacks, because they give you the idea that its easy to mantain them...
Its the same thing saying that you dont need any pilot on an airplane (and that you can put there anyone) if you make a good autopilot engine...
We need more knowledge in system administration, not more automatisms.
Netmeeting and h323 video stuff is there from a lot of time but people still prefer using mirc or icq. I dont think most people is happy to show theit face (especially in the morning...).
Why mozilla is better ? Because is a PLATFORM not just a browser. How can OpenOffice be better than MSOffice, being a platform and having a lot of projects surrounding it and making it a good choice, cause, like linux and mozilla, you can customize it following your needs without loosing speed and standards.
0.17 was not just an improvement, but a really different way of thinking enlightenment, something more near to KDE or Gnome than to WMaker or Ice... sad to see that development is slowing down...
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XFree is old, should be rewrited from scratch, but the problem is the time. XFree works in a lot of architectures, and a lot of different hardware. Out there there are good alternatives (from a "design" point of view) like DirectFB but they run just on few hardware, and, usually, only 1 architecture. So, the problem is, XFree is too big to make forking a good idea, i think people should just make current X better without any fork. We need some standard for direct hardware access (like DRI) and concentrate work on them. Just an opinion...
In some european country you have to ask and pay to trasmit radio signal over a public area (so also over a street and so on)... So, direct comunication like this could result in a cheaper choice.
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Ok 261 megapixel, yeah, cool, but, since RED cameras use canon/nikon photo lenses how they suppose to obtain such a resolution? I mean, currently with new cameras (like 5dMkII) coming out we are allready speaking about lens limits (also for "top" lenses like L marked ones). So, how can they push this camera to that resolution without enlarging sensor size? For 261 megapixel you will need AT LEAST 6x6 sensor rather than normal 35mm. And 6x6 sensor requires really big lenses (like hasselblad) and probably won't keep up either. So, i think there is too much "megapixel" marketing here rather than "real" resolution.
We have allready wireless last mile access using 3G networks like UMTS, the service i currently use supports till 3.6Mbit which is really similar to a entry level DSL line, but this is not going to be comparable to DSL services in town for a lot of reasons.
First of all is "mobile", and telco's are used to make the user pay for this "extra" feature, and, it's unstable, latency is greater than cable and latency/jitter is the real user percerption of speed when surfing with a browser or using voip.
So, really, don't know, i think WiMax will be great were no other connectivity alternative is possible, but, in big cities, cabling will be the best solution for a long long time.
Microsoft knows that this player is going to be hacked. As in windows piracy will be its success, people will buy it because it will be able to share music illegally with an illegal firmware. Once spread microsoft will close it a little more and open a "itune" online store rival.
Story repeats itself...
The big problem with ldap is that most of autentication plugins (apache, pam and the others) matches only first level group members, not nested groups, normally used, expecially, in big micro$oft directories. This creates a lot of "difficul to mantain" groups containing very big lists of accounts. I know that filters or organizational units can be used to group them, but most of the times this is not enaugh. For this reason i usually prefer radius which integrates well *nix and m$ worlds (even if i still use ldap for apache cause radius mod for apache is not so customizable).
Ok, maybe an internet connection faster than 54mbps is rare, but, why should one think that wifi is used just for internet access? You use "ethernet" just for internet access? If i need to copy an iso file from my laptop (or if i need to mount a remote iso) to/from an intranet file server having 600mbit make a real difference.
So, ok, for internet access 11 could be enaugh, but, for intranet stuff (expecially in big companies), fast wifi could be very useful.
Every posture if lasts more than 1 hour is bad for health, the only, easy, solution, is to change posture every time possible.
Why (americans companies, usually) are so excited by free drinks and good food facilities INSIDE working place? I mean, in europe we are used to go out of office for lunch, every day, possibly changing place anytime possible, or even going at home if close enaugh, so what's the good points of having free coke inside work? It's nothing healty, nor expensive if you want to but it yourself, so, i can't really understand why google and other big companies tries to gain people attention showing this bonuses (i'm referring to the photos). I can't just understand, here in italy it doesn't make any "plus" having free coke inside the office, it's just useless, at lunch, you go out, you sit down, and eat, possibly with people different from the ones you see at work. It's just better than anything inside my workplace.
Java must embrace SWT and start doing GUIs in a fast, portable, native way. SWING is slow, redundant and ugly. IBM knows the right way, SUN should follow them or surrender to .NET (both windows and mono have NATIVE widgets stuff).
Screen is a terminal which can survive connection problems. You can start your script, detach terminal, and then came back 10 minutes later and watch what its doing. I know, that's not "fault tolerant", but, most of the times, its enaugh.
Kaffe is a free java vm, why they did it? Because now, if you want free java on ipaq, kaffe is a good solution. Also because kaffe is open source so its chanches of porting are better. And sometimes is quite faster then sun vm.
Mozilla when was started it wasn't as good as explorer, or opera, both were free, so, why start another project? Now, a lot of people thinks mozilla is the best browser.
Toshiba has an unofficial linux (and also *nix in general) support site at http://newsletter.toshiba-tro.de/main/ this is a lot useful to find machine hardware spec and linux (netware, *bsd) compatibility.
Cpu grows following moore law, memory become cheaper and faster, video cards and busses are fast enaugh. But there are still 2 problems: - DISKS ARE SLOW! DAMN SLOW! TOO SLOW! If we dont find a viable alternative 10TB ethernet will be unusable. - BATTERIES SUCKS! We need a more stable, longlasting way of providing mobile energy. If we still have bottlenecks like these there won't be any real advantage by this stuff.
Everything in pc market is going faster month by month, everything but disks. Disks are becoming a bottleneck, sure, but we dont need to replace them with RAM, we need to replace them with a good subsitute. Ibm NanoDrives could be the answer, dunno (speed like RAM, 100gb/cm, no power needed to keep data...), but, RAM is RAM, hard disks are hard disks, we need just better ones.
Thats the reason windows servers are more vulnerable to attacks, because they give you the idea that its easy to mantain them... Its the same thing saying that you dont need any pilot on an airplane (and that you can put there anyone) if you make a good autopilot engine... We need more knowledge in system administration, not more automatisms.
Netmeeting and h323 video stuff is there from a lot of time but people still prefer using mirc or icq. I dont think most people is happy to show theit face (especially in the morning...).
Why mozilla is better ? Because is a PLATFORM not just a browser. How can OpenOffice be better than MSOffice, being a platform and having a lot of projects surrounding it and making it a good choice, cause, like linux and mozilla, you can customize it following your needs without loosing speed and standards.
0.17 was not just an improvement, but a really different way of thinking enlightenment, something more near to KDE or Gnome than to WMaker or Ice... sad to see that development is slowing down...
XFree is old, should be rewrited from scratch, but the problem is the time. XFree works in a lot of architectures, and a lot of different hardware. Out there there are good alternatives (from a "design" point of view) like DirectFB but they run just on few hardware, and, usually, only 1 architecture. So, the problem is, XFree is too big to make forking a good idea, i think people should just make current X better without any fork. We need some standard for direct hardware access (like DRI) and concentrate work on them. Just an opinion...
Also vim helps human rights... "Uganda licence" is a good idea to make OS Software even more useful...
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In some european country you have to ask and pay to trasmit radio signal over a public area (so also over a street and so on)... So, direct comunication like this could result in a cheaper choice.