This ain't true anymore.
The flagship prosumer digital SLR from Canon, the D60, uses a Canon-made CMOS which renders incredible pictures.
Take a look at some sample image on www.dpreview.com and see for yourself! Things have changed since 2 years...
On another notem, CMOS sensors tends to be slower. Thats probably why their pro SLR like the 1D does use a CCD.
Man, that is my dream!
The internet was supposed to be decentralized, but it is not enough for my taste;-)
I dream of everyone having fast wireless connection, so we could all have servers sitting in the corner, easilly moveable and not required to dial up/connect to any providers.
A true web, a p2p system if you want were I connect to you and you connect to the other etc etc...
I guess there is much research which need to be done, probably I'm just dreaming,
but it has been my original dream when I first began "playing" with computers.
A COMPLETLY decentralized communication medium, where I am the only responsible of my node, my identity...
Anything you will ever create is a logical conclusion to a problem you asked yourself once in the past.
The problem is that it was supposed to help inventors market their new product, create new ones etc etc.
Now that the system is so messed up, big corps can patent anything they want, sit on the patent a couple of year and collect later from those infringing the patent.
And worse, the reason I don't like software patent is that the same dawm algorithm can be used in 10, 100, 1000 different situation.
And even if it serve the same purpose, if it does not violate the copyright, it is not the SAME EXACT product. it is just good ol' competition.
When I copy/paste an adress into the browsers adress bar and then press enter. This is perfectly legal, no?
So how can it be any different if this task is accomplished automatically by a computer?!?
When you right an anchor tag in html, it is the SAME thing as if you say "reference: book XYZ page 32 par. 4".
The ONLY difference is that the content is electronic instead of being on paper. And that you do not have to open the book yourself
And that is the purpose of the internet.
Those who claims otherwise are missing the point.
A website is NOT like a store, into which you HAVE to enter by the front door, instead of breaking a window.
It is just an arrangement of documents, which happen to be electronics, with which you are able to have a certain level of interactivity.
None of the above.
You are not copying anything from the source,
you are writing, with an anchor tag, where to find the information.
The browser is the one which actually provides you with an easy way of going there.
It is just an automated way of loading the web page instead of copy/pasting its adress and pressing enter.
there is no monitor coming with this box.
Also assuming that it is for the average joe to browse, chat, check mail etc etc.
And assuming that he won't do any kind of big gaming,
Why ain't there any company releasing more mini-itx based computer?
Their is more and more case for those mobo, they are REALLY cheap, no fan, and you can connect it right away on your TV.
It ain't a big machine which could drive you anywhere near 40 FPS in Q3A, but it is not the market targeted by the Lindows machine anyway.
Those (mini-itx) would be smaller, cooler, cheaper to produce and could serve as a DVD player.
Add to that a small remote to control de DVD, a wireless KB and Wireless mouse, and this is the perfect piece of hardware to surf on-line sitting in your couch!
I 100% agree with you on that one.
I for exemple would like very much to run my own server to provide some X services. But it just cost so much, like more then my appartment!
So I understand that ads are kind of essential, but I don't think that pop-ups, pop-under or pop-whatever are the way of doing it.
Google as the most convenient system IMHO. Non-obstrusive, clean and targeted.
I even bough a couple things from there!
I had been working for a company lately which was developing application for BCE Emergis.
One day, couple of months after I began there, the boss came to us and asked that we sign an NDA.
Was asked by BCE they said. And if we would not sign it, they would loose the contract.
So we read it, and it was pretty anoying, because it had been writen for BCE's employee, not their contracters.
So we would had clause stating that during the time of our employement, and 6 month after, we could not use the knowledge acquired during the time of the employement and that any developed application was belong to them.
But because we were not BCE's employee but the firm employee, it meant that we could not use this knowledge at all for the time I was there, even if the contract with BCE ended. Real bad for the firm also...
Well, we asked that the company call a lawyer for us with whom we discused and made some change to the NDA.
Nothing bad happened, and the lawyer almost laugh at us for being so "paranoid", but reading stories like this one, I think that it was not paranoia that much after all...
If government software are open-sourced or not.
What I do mind however is if their document format are open or not.
If they are, it is "easy" to change from one application to another.
But if you have to reverse-engineer every document-type, it gets harder.
What really bothers me is the content, not the media.
I'm working with Java, and I'm doing so with a PII 266mhz.
Granted, I had to ask for more memory, a 256meg of SDRAM(65$CAN) which adds up to 512.
My favorite IDE: VI.
I was using JBuilder before, and when I changed place, I had to learn to code into a standard text editor.
I'm not doing that much of GUI apps, but if they are well optimized, they aren't THAT slow. Yes they need a lot of memory, but they are not THAT hungry CPU-wise...
The internet is not only what you see in your browser...
Do not like it the way it is?
Built up a new protocole to replace http, invent a new standard to replace html, build a client, a server and there you go.
What will he do? Install it's own cables?
The content does not define the medium. And the medium IS decentralized. You don't like the content? Provide your own.
Really, it is as simple as this.
OTOH, what I would really really like, is for broadband access to become cheap for everyone, something which would enable us to get rid of access providers.
I really hope that there will be major advances in wireless communication.
Would it not be nice if everybody could upload/download at the speed of a T1?
This could actually change something, the medium would get more decentralized, and that would be great...
their old pentium,
they would never had such errors';-)
I swear your honnor! I only rounded to the nearest decimal!
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Well, I used to play chess a lot when I was still at college.
I bought ChessMaster 6000 (or 5000?) at this time so I could play over modem with my friends.
Well the ChessMaster could simulate real top-ranked player.
It was not exactly the same, but it was immitating their style pretty well (opening, Closure, some attacks...)...
That was exactly my point. User who sees the application crash when they enter bad data are considering this a bug. They're right on that point. An application should verify EVERYTHING before actually performing an action, even memory allocation. But this is just not viable in todays context. And just as you say, nothings perfect, and certainly not in hundreds of thousands (that's much) lines of code.
I don't know ANY software which doesn't have at least one bug.
Some have more then others, but none have no bugs. As a consultant, I could be prosecuted if they ever find a bug?!? While I always do a lot of testing of what I will release, clients are pushing for things to come out fast, and even when you give them realistic preview of the time it will take, they cut it in half. So there is always some little bugs hidden somewhere which will come out. If there is a possibility to go back after the original coders/company, clients will do so. IMHO, this will just be another law to be abused...
maybe it is hard to beat free, but certainly not impossible. I myself download a sh1t load of MP3's. And you know what? I get out and bought a LOT of those. Those which I found were really good, not the other stuff I did not liked and deleted anyway. Why did I went out to buy them? Well, I am to lazy to burn 50 CD's, put them in there case and print all the good-looking covers. Plus, I like to have the booklet included with them. But like most people, I don't feel any CD is worth 25$CAN. I'm lucky, most of the music I listen to is getting pretty old and I've been able to find those in used cd store. 8-10$ for a good cd, 1 free when you buy 4 is a good deal to me. 25$ is WAY to much.
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Yeah, I need to go see a doctor so he will give me a prescription. ;-)
Then, i can buy the pills
This ain't true anymore.
The flagship prosumer digital SLR from Canon, the D60, uses a Canon-made CMOS which renders incredible pictures.
Take a look at some sample image on www.dpreview.com and see for yourself! Things have changed since 2 years...
On another notem, CMOS sensors tends to be slower. Thats probably why their pro SLR like the 1D does use a CCD.
Man, that is my dream! ;-)
The internet was supposed to be decentralized, but it is not enough for my taste
I dream of everyone having fast wireless connection, so we could all have servers sitting in the corner, easilly moveable and not required to dial up/connect to any providers.
A true web, a p2p system if you want were I connect to you and you connect to the other etc etc...
I guess there is much research which need to be done, probably I'm just dreaming,
but it has been my original dream when I first began "playing" with computers.
A COMPLETLY decentralized communication medium, where I am the only responsible of my node, my identity...
Well, that is the purpose of patents...
Anything you will ever create is a logical conclusion to a problem you asked yourself once in the past.
The problem is that it was supposed to help inventors market their new product, create new ones etc etc.
Now that the system is so messed up, big corps can patent anything they want, sit on the patent a couple of year and collect later from those infringing the patent.
And worse, the reason I don't like software patent is that the same dawm algorithm can be used in 10, 100, 1000 different situation.
And even if it serve the same purpose, if it does not violate the copyright, it is not the SAME EXACT product. it is just good ol' competition.
When I copy/paste an adress into the browsers adress bar and then press enter.
This is perfectly legal, no?
So how can it be any different if this task is accomplished automatically by a computer?!?
When you right an anchor tag in html, it is the SAME thing as if you say "reference: book XYZ page 32 par. 4".
The ONLY difference is that the content is electronic instead of being on paper.
And that you do not have to open the book yourself
And that is the purpose of the internet.
Those who claims otherwise are missing the point.
A website is NOT like a store, into which you HAVE to enter by the front door, instead of breaking a window.
It is just an arrangement of documents, which happen to be electronics, with which you are able to have a certain level of interactivity.
None of the above.
You are not copying anything from the source,
you are writing, with an anchor tag, where to find the information.
The browser is the one which actually provides you with an easy way of going there.
It is just an automated way of loading the web page instead of copy/pasting its adress and pressing enter.
What?
I have all right to lend him the original, as long as I don't have a copy and as long as I do not "rent" it to him! Right?
??? Ain't it the player who outputs into either PAL or NTSC?
It as nothing to do with the movie on the cd!?!
Forgot to post the link...
Mini-itx
there is no monitor coming with this box.
Also assuming that it is for the average joe to browse, chat, check mail etc etc.
And assuming that he won't do any kind of big gaming,
Why ain't there any company releasing more mini-itx based computer?
Their is more and more case for those mobo, they are REALLY cheap, no fan, and you can connect it right away on your TV.
It ain't a big machine which could drive you anywhere near 40 FPS in Q3A, but it is not the market targeted by the Lindows machine anyway.
Those (mini-itx) would be smaller, cooler, cheaper to produce and could serve as a DVD player.
Add to that a small remote to control de DVD, a wireless KB and Wireless mouse, and this is the perfect piece of hardware to surf on-line sitting in your couch!
I 100% agree with you on that one.
I for exemple would like very much to run my own server to provide some X services. But it just cost so much, like more then my appartment!
So I understand that ads are kind of essential, but I don't think that pop-ups, pop-under or pop-whatever are the way of doing it.
Google as the most convenient system IMHO. Non-obstrusive, clean and targeted.
I even bough a couple things from there!
I had been working for a company lately which was developing application for BCE Emergis.
One day, couple of months after I began there, the boss came to us and asked that we sign an NDA.
Was asked by BCE they said. And if we would not sign it, they would loose the contract.
So we read it, and it was pretty anoying, because it had been writen for BCE's employee, not their contracters.
So we would had clause stating that during the time of our employement, and 6 month after, we could not use the knowledge acquired during the time of the employement and that any developed application was belong to them.
But because we were not BCE's employee but the firm employee, it meant that we could not use this knowledge at all for the time I was there, even if the contract with BCE ended. Real bad for the firm also...
Well, we asked that the company call a lawyer for us with whom we discused and made some change to the NDA.
Nothing bad happened, and the lawyer almost laugh at us for being so "paranoid", but reading stories like this one, I think that it was not paranoia that much after all...
Hummmm,
Google search
In fact, KDENews appears on page one and page to, slashdot appears on apge 2 right after kdenews...
If government software are open-sourced or not.
What I do mind however is if their document format are open or not.
If they are, it is "easy" to change from one application to another.
But if you have to reverse-engineer every document-type, it gets harder.
What really bothers me is the content, not the media.
I'm working with Java, and I'm doing so with a PII 266mhz.
Granted, I had to ask for more memory, a 256meg of SDRAM(65$CAN) which adds up to 512.
My favorite IDE: VI.
I was using JBuilder before, and when I changed place, I had to learn to code into a standard text editor.
I'm not doing that much of GUI apps, but if they are well optimized, they aren't THAT slow. Yes they need a lot of memory, but they are not THAT hungry CPU-wise...
They meant designated volunteer.
The internet is not only what you see in your browser...
Do not like it the way it is?
Built up a new protocole to replace http, invent a new standard to replace html, build a client, a server and there you go.
What will he do? Install it's own cables?
The content does not define the medium. And the medium IS decentralized. You don't like the content? Provide your own.
Really, it is as simple as this.
OTOH, what I would really really like, is for broadband access to become cheap for everyone, something which would enable us to get rid of access providers.
I really hope that there will be major advances in wireless communication.
Would it not be nice if everybody could upload/download at the speed of a T1?
This could actually change something, the medium would get more decentralized, and that would be great...
their old pentium, ;-)
they would never had such errors'
I swear your honnor! I only rounded to the nearest decimal!
Well, I used to play chess a lot when I was still at college.
I bought ChessMaster 6000 (or 5000?) at this time so I could play over modem with my friends.
Well the ChessMaster could simulate real top-ranked player.
It was not exactly the same, but it was immitating their style pretty well (opening, Closure, some attacks...)...
Like when I go to the "Couche-Tard" to buy cigarettes and they keep asking me if I want to buy mentos.
Is it a message or what?!?
Like their own standard is stating...
If it does the job.
'nuff said.
That was exactly my point.
User who sees the application crash when they enter bad data are considering this a bug.
They're right on that point. An application should verify EVERYTHING before actually performing an action, even memory allocation.
But this is just not viable in todays context.
And just as you say, nothings perfect, and certainly not in hundreds of thousands (that's much) lines of code.
I don't know ANY software which doesn't have at least one bug.
Some have more then others, but none have no bugs.
As a consultant, I could be prosecuted if they ever find a bug?!?
While I always do a lot of testing of what I will release, clients are pushing for things to come out fast, and even when you give them realistic preview of the time it will take, they cut it in half.
So there is always some little bugs hidden somewhere which will come out.
If there is a possibility to go back after the original coders/company, clients will do so.
IMHO, this will just be another law to be abused...
maybe it is hard to beat free, but certainly not impossible.
I myself download a sh1t load of MP3's.
And you know what? I get out and bought a LOT of those.
Those which I found were really good, not the other stuff I did not liked and deleted anyway.
Why did I went out to buy them?
Well, I am to lazy to burn 50 CD's, put them in there case and print all the good-looking covers.
Plus, I like to have the booklet included with them.
But like most people, I don't feel any CD is worth 25$CAN.
I'm lucky, most of the music I listen to is getting pretty old and I've been able to find those in used cd store.
8-10$ for a good cd, 1 free when you buy 4 is a good deal to me. 25$ is WAY to much.