> A professional photojournalist with an iPhone would produce better photojournalism than non-experts with a DSLR.
Nope. The iPhone simply isn't up to the task. It doesn't matter how much expertise you throw at it.
It's not just about picture quality, it's about knowing what will make a definitive or compelling image. For low resolution newspaper or web images, the difference between cameraphone and DSLR is more about the quality of the operator than the quality of the camera.
I too was an early MODx user, enthusiastic but clueless is the best I can say about the "community" at that time, while MODx developers embodied all that is bad about open source dogmatists, accepting mediocrity and only ever working on stuff they find interesting or cool but neglecting things like documentation, usability and quality and having no care for timescales. And its not even as though they developed it, they just forked etomite and fiddled around a bit. Like children, these amateurs (in the worst sense of the word) strut and pride themselves on their trivial achievements.
I gave up using MODx (before Revolution) because I needed to get things done and it wasn't ever going to improve on a reasonable timescale, unsurprised to hear that nothing has changed. Avoid.
This is simply not the case, I saw both at the time on many occasions and VHS had a markedly inferior picture to Betamax. VHS was, and remains, an inferior format in every practical sense.
But what did put the nail into the coffin of Betamax were Sony's licensing terms and the video rental industry. VHS was easier for other manufacturers to produce and although I can remember e.g. Virgin video rental off Oxford St (in London) stocking rental tapes in both formats this was obviously a major pain and the major rental companies wished to standardise, pushing others along with them. At some point in the 80's there was a major selloff of pre-recorded Betamax tapes, great for those of use with Betamax machines as we could pick up boxes of them for next to nothing.
I have one (in the UK) and can see this signal strength display issue though I personally have not had a dropped call.
My concern is the handset is about to be replaced and I will be stuck with an old lemon with poor resale value. Mainly for that reason I am inclined to return mine for a refund and wait for iPhone 4.1
When Dijkstra wrote that, kids did not have access to computers. Any child has the flexibility to learn the, ahem, basics from BASIC and move on after discarding it.
Adults, on the other hand, tend to stick with what they first picked up on. Look at how badly most (non-techy) people use modern GUI-based systems, sticking rigidly to the few things they have picked up over the years.
This thread has lots of people who learned to program BASIC as a kid and then moved on, they think their experience invalidates Dijkstra, it does not, it reinforces it. Dijkstra was spot on, except as a training language for children BASIC is harmful.
"In the criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future, and, in some cases, with at least one overt act in furtherance of that agreement." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)
So how come one person was charged, who was he meant to be conspiring with and why were they not charged as well?
This'll probably never see the light of day but it opens up a rats nest. I presume the existing law is void and so they will enact a replacement law. But what about people convicted to date?
Will they now be pardoned?, can the 'guilty' parties sue for compensation?
I've seen some old hacks for installing IE7 beta in a directory and running it without doing a full install. I'd like to check out IE7 but want to wait for the first flood of patches before removing IE6 (never thought I'd hear myself saying that).
I'm alternating between thinking that this idea is ridiculously stupid, or alternatively, truly inspired.
I propose an optimisation, let the winner be the one with the best elevator pitch - "It's like excel meets my-space, you arrange your friends into rows and columns..."
just like high-concept movie ideas where a one-sentence summary gets turned into a 90-minute film.
I think that as we have also lost much of our sense of community in the US and the UK this kind of social pressure won't really have as much hold here.
One could suggest that South Koreans really need to get out more.
Welcome to long term unemployment. To try and make a comparison between software patents and slavery is the sign of a middle class airhead who has no sense of proportion.
Free and non-free software can, and do, co-exist. Deal with it.
All of this is true but as I recall from reports at the time the company made (to me)
breathtaking procedural errors seemingly in the interests of saving time and money.
Remember this was the first human test and there was no knowledge
of what an appropriate human dose was. They should have started with the smallest possible dose and gradually
increased it in successive trials. And in the early stages they should also have administered the drug
to only one subject or at least staggered the subjects many hours apart. Their failure to do both of these things
resulted in more casualties than was 'necessary'.
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Oh, so this there the 5xxxxx's are hanging out.
> A professional photojournalist with an iPhone would produce better photojournalism than non-experts with a DSLR.
Nope. The iPhone simply isn't up to the task. It doesn't matter how much expertise you throw at it.
It's not just about picture quality, it's about knowing what will make a definitive or compelling image. For low resolution newspaper or web images, the difference between cameraphone and DSLR is more about the quality of the operator than the quality of the camera.
Well, you know *he* will be good if he's in it. Most of the rest of that cast were phoning it in.
I too was an early MODx user, enthusiastic but clueless is the best I can say about the "community" at that time, while MODx developers embodied all that is bad about open source dogmatists, accepting mediocrity and only ever working on stuff they find interesting or cool but neglecting things like documentation, usability and quality and having no care for timescales. And its not even as though they developed it, they just forked etomite and fiddled around a bit. Like children, these amateurs (in the worst sense of the word) strut and pride themselves on their trivial achievements.
I gave up using MODx (before Revolution) because I needed to get things done and it wasn't ever going to improve on a reasonable timescale, unsurprised to hear that nothing has changed. Avoid.
I don't know a single person, not one, who makes his OS choice based on what "gnome developers" recommend. Why was this bit even added to the summary?
It wasn't "added" it is a direct quote from TFA, the correct question would be why was this quoted?
This is simply not the case, I saw both at the time on many occasions and VHS had a markedly inferior picture to Betamax. VHS was, and remains, an inferior format in every practical sense.
But what did put the nail into the coffin of Betamax were Sony's licensing terms and the video rental industry. VHS was easier for other manufacturers to produce and although I can remember e.g. Virgin video rental off Oxford St (in London) stocking rental tapes in both formats this was obviously a major pain and the major rental companies wished to standardise, pushing others along with them. At some point in the 80's there was a major selloff of pre-recorded Betamax tapes, great for those of use with Betamax machines as we could pick up boxes of them for next to nothing.
Like duh! Christmas IS in the middle of summer in some parts of the world.
Erm, no it's not. Unless you think "lack of foresight" is the definition of irony.
I have one (in the UK) and can see this signal strength display issue though I personally have not had a dropped call.
My concern is the handset is about to be replaced and I will be stuck with an old lemon with poor resale value. Mainly for that reason I am inclined to return mine for a refund and wait for iPhone 4.1
... this was a bonified SNAFU, (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up.)
That's "bona fide", but I quite like your version, made me smile.
I mean Microsoft proactively looking for bugs? It's a bit far-fetched.
Come on it's April 2nd here, stop it!
When Dijkstra wrote that, kids did not have access to computers. Any child has the flexibility to learn the, ahem, basics from BASIC and move on after discarding it.
Adults, on the other hand, tend to stick with what they first picked up on. Look at how badly most (non-techy) people use modern GUI-based systems, sticking rigidly to the few things they have picked up over the years.
This thread has lots of people who learned to program BASIC as a kid and then moved on, they think their experience invalidates Dijkstra, it does not, it reinforces it. Dijkstra was spot on, except as a training language for children BASIC is harmful.
"In the criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future, and, in some cases, with at least one overt act in furtherance of that agreement." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)
So how come one person was charged, who was he meant to be conspiring with and why were they not charged as well?
Has been doing this for years. I am unsurprised that the NYT doesn't even bother to acknowledge this.
This'll probably never see the light of day but it opens up a rats nest. I presume the existing law is void and so they will enact a replacement law. But what about people convicted to date?
Will they now be pardoned?, can the 'guilty' parties sue for compensation?
This is Slashdot, I thought every day was a day "without anyone being the wiser."
TGI April 2nd.
I've seen some old hacks for installing IE7 beta in a directory and running it without doing a full install. I'd like to check out IE7 but want to wait for the first flood of patches before removing IE6 (never thought I'd hear myself saying that).
So is it possible to run IE7 w/o installation?
I'm alternating between thinking that this idea is ridiculously stupid, or alternatively, truly inspired.
..."
I propose an optimisation, let the winner be the one with the best elevator pitch - "It's like excel meets my-space, you arrange your friends into rows and columns
just like high-concept movie ideas where a one-sentence summary gets turned into a 90-minute film.
I think that as we have also lost much of our sense of community in the US and the UK this kind of social pressure won't really have as much hold here.
One could suggest that South Koreans really need to get out more.
Jesus!
Welcome to long term unemployment. To try and make a comparison between software patents and slavery is the sign of a middle class airhead who has no sense of proportion.
Free and non-free software can, and do, co-exist. Deal with it.
And I think you're wrong when you write "your wrong".
Shouldn't that be For Chris's sake?
All of this is true but as I recall from reports at the time the company made (to me) breathtaking procedural errors seemingly in the interests of saving time and money.
Remember this was the first human test and there was no knowledge of what an appropriate human dose was. They should have started with the smallest possible dose and gradually increased it in successive trials. And in the early stages they should also have administered the drug to only one subject or at least staggered the subjects many hours apart. Their failure to do both of these things resulted in more casualties than was 'necessary'.
These poor sods deserve everything they can get.
Fascinatingly, if you do the search and spell it as we do here in good old Blighty it succeeds.
. shtml
Thus a search for "Australia's laws on paedophilia" returns http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/rom-f11
as it's first non-sponsored result
UK googlers are quite used to trying British and American spellings, sounds like the trick can be used to circumvent f*ckwit attempts at censorship.
I might be missing something here but I downloaded this for my Powerbook back on May 23rd. There have been 2 subsequent patches.
Why is this story being posted today?
Ed