Have you no shame? LJ has enough trouble keeping their servers responsive as it is.
P.S. - I subscribe to LJ because they continue to innovate. I don't subscribe to/. because it continues to stagnate. CACHE THE FUCKING ARTICLES ALREADY!!!
Better yet, don't put all your eggs in one basket!
You can restore (or pay somebody to restore) a badly deteriorated, hundred-year-old photographic print, and get remarkable results. Imagine trying that with any digital media.
And you say you don't want to be a museum curator, but you're choosing the option that will require exactly that. Digital image archival will require meticulously cataloging, inspecting, and duplicating your media library. If you make prints, you can stick them in a shoe box and forget about them for fifty years, until your grandkids find them in some dusty corner of your attic and marvel at them... not caring a bit if they're a little faded.
Please check your history. The Civil War wasn't about ending slavery.
If Republicans truly cared about blacks, they wouldn't have sold them out in 1877. They would have parceled out the plantations and given blacks their due. Forty acres and a mule... remember that shit? We're still waiting.
Several months ago, we started getting relay calls at work from someone who claimed to be in China. He wanted to order several camcorders and laptops and have them delivered to his "client" in Ghana. We told him to piss off. He kept calling, though. Eventually he asked if he could order the merchandise from somewhere else and have it shipped to us, then arrange for someone to pick it up and ship it out of the country. We were like, sure. Sadly, the first items delivered were not laptops and camcorders, but clothes from Old Navy and 60 bottles of cheap perfume from Avon. The address on the credit card bill was in Spokane, WA. We called the credit card company to report the probable fraud, but they said they couldn't help us because we only had the last four digits of the card number! Several weeks later, the scammer called again and angrily accused us of trying to defraud him of his merchandise. We told him we were just waiting for somebody to pick it up. He never called back.
Recently, we gave up on anyone ever coming for the loot and divvied it up. Two pairs of jeans for me (size 32x30), a couple button-up shirts for my co-worker (size XXL!), and the perfume went to eBay.
4, Interesting? Please. How about troll or flamebait?
Forking a distro is not an ego trip. Every distro has a unique purpose or focus, or else it wouldn't exist. Ubuntu's stated goals are different from Debian's. Debian aims for the ultimate reliability. Ubuntu walks the tightrope between stability and cutting-edge eye candy. The result is, IMO, by far the best desktop distro available. Maybe even the long-awaited "Windows killer."
It's not even that if, like me, you only recognize the original 14/28 year limit on copyrights. Anything recorded before 1976 is public domain, and fuck anyone who says otherwise.
I already hate all Kodak products and never recommend them to my customers. After this episode, I think I'll actively steer my customers away from Kodak even if they're sure that's what they want. They'll thank me for it later, anyhow... because except for TX, TM[XYZ] and HIE, everything with the Kodak name on it is pure shit!
"And with its full 35mm CMOS it is the first camera to effectively reproduce the image quality of 35mm film."
The marketroids said that about the first 1MP camera too, remember? How many megapixels equates to 35mm film a) depends on the application, b) depends on the subject, and c) is totally subjective. As a rule of thumb, 1MP is enough for a 3x5, 2MP for 4x6, 3MP for 5x7, etc. But this doesn't take into account that contrast can be more important than actual resolution in the perceived sharpness of an image, and that if you have enough resolution to capture the details people expect to see, more doesn't really add anything. If I take a 4MP close-up portrait and capture every eyelash, I can make a billboard out of it and it'll still look good. For what application is 16.7MP going to be significantly better than 14 or 11 or 8? Not very many...
What's really significant about the EOS-1d (the original as well as the Mark II) is that the physical size of the image sensor is the same as a 35mm film frame. This means that your lenses cover the same angle of view as they do on a 35mm film camera... no 1.5x "crop factor" as on almost all other digital SLRs.
Keep in mind that Ubuntu is currently under heavy development. Things are getting fixed pretty quickly. The mailing list is helpful with questions, and the developers are responsive to bug reports.
To make a long story short, I liked Ubuntu so much that I finally ditched RH9. Ubuntu is now my main desktop, sharing my hard drive with Windows only because I play Dark Age of Camelot.
Statistics show that unemployment is down...
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But only because they don't count those who have been out of work so long they're no longer eligible for unemployment assistance.
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They're $29.99 here.
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You can restore (or pay somebody to restore) a badly deteriorated, hundred-year-old photographic print, and get remarkable results. Imagine trying that with any digital media.
And you say you don't want to be a museum curator, but you're choosing the option that will require exactly that. Digital image archival will require meticulously cataloging, inspecting, and duplicating your media library. If you make prints, you can stick them in a shoe box and forget about them for fifty years, until your grandkids find them in some dusty corner of your attic and marvel at them... not caring a bit if they're a little faded.
Just as gender is not necessarily biologically determined... neither is whiteness.
MLK was a leader.
Jesse Jackson is a leader.
Alan Keyes is a leader, albeit one I don't always agree with.
Rice and Powell are puppets.
If Republicans truly cared about blacks, they wouldn't have sold them out in 1877. They would have parceled out the plantations and given blacks their due. Forty acres and a mule... remember that shit? We're still waiting.
Condi is a token nothing. Watch for her to be made a scapegoat when the time comes.
Recently, we gave up on anyone ever coming for the loot and divvied it up. Two pairs of jeans for me (size 32x30), a couple button-up shirts for my co-worker (size XXL!), and the perfume went to eBay.
Too bad... I wanted a free laptop.
Will the United States be setting up its own "Great Firewall" if Shrub steals another election?
Mr. President, we've received intelligence reports indicating that Titan is harboring terrorists and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.
Forking a distro is not an ego trip. Every distro has a unique purpose or focus, or else it wouldn't exist. Ubuntu's stated goals are different from Debian's. Debian aims for the ultimate reliability. Ubuntu walks the tightrope between stability and cutting-edge eye candy. The result is, IMO, by far the best desktop distro available. Maybe even the long-awaited "Windows killer."
What do Slashdot editors do, anyway?
Are they gonna name it the Lyle Drive?
Downloading third-party software is exactly what gets people into trouble with Windows... especially when IE holes cause them to do so unknowingly!
That, and I have a pocketknife.
It's not even that if, like me, you only recognize the original 14/28 year limit on copyrights. Anything recorded before 1976 is public domain, and fuck anyone who says otherwise.
I was going to make a snide remark, but it seemed a little too obvious...
True. But 99% of consumers are not artists and don't give a shit.
I already hate all Kodak products and never recommend them to my customers. After this episode, I think I'll actively steer my customers away from Kodak even if they're sure that's what they want. They'll thank me for it later, anyhow... because except for TX, TM[XYZ] and HIE, everything with the Kodak name on it is pure shit!
It's "piqued," not "peaked." GET IT RIGHT FOR ONCE!
I'm sure the jury was totally impartial. "If we lose this case, tell your uncle/cousin/wife not to bother coming to work on Monday."
What's really significant about the EOS-1d (the original as well as the Mark II) is that the physical size of the image sensor is the same as a 35mm film frame. This means that your lenses cover the same angle of view as they do on a 35mm film camera... no 1.5x "crop factor" as on almost all other digital SLRs.
To make a long story short, I liked Ubuntu so much that I finally ditched RH9. Ubuntu is now my main desktop, sharing my hard drive with Windows only because I play Dark Age of Camelot.
But only because they don't count those who have been out of work so long they're no longer eligible for unemployment assistance.
Duh, I said that: "That doesn't mean he has to distribute it, though."