Until I can buy a camera body that can accept commercially-available lenses (prefereably Ultrasonic Canon ones), at a reasonable price I'm not buying. The camera makers are slowly releasing stuff in the hope that peopoe will keep buying SLRs, but the pace of digital camera development makes everyone wait.
Olympus used to have a great 10x (not digital) zoom digital cam, but it's been discontinued.
Yes and yes. Companies today are being managed by MBAs who don't know a fucking shit about the way business actually works, all they know about is "administration". MBAs never get into the detais, they only think in the big picture. If it isn't shown in power-point slides, then it doesn't exist. If fraud wasn't in the business plan, or if it wasn't mentioned by the marketing consultants, it doesn't exist.
Why was the above modded as "funny"? Aside from the "fraud" slight, it seems to be pretty accurate.
What happens in the "real engineering" world is that plants are built, facilities constructed, etc., based on "our" designs.
The reality tends to be somewhat different though, as during construction certain necessary changes are made.
The designer of the original system typically is not notified of these changes, as this is not important in the overall scheme of things. Most times, tweaks are done at the local level and are only ever documented at the facility itself.
The more information others have about you, the more subtly they can manipulate you. Detailed information is usually used to take advantage of someone.
I'd like to echo this thought because it is all too easy to "look someone up" and form an opinion of them without even meeting the person. I am speaking specifically of credit reports / drug test results, which, more and more, are being used (because it's easy to do from a monied corporate perspective and going after the trustwothy drones that suit the suits' interests best) to evaluate people.
This phenomenon is going to only get worse in the future as more and more jobs are lost due to the perceived "efficiencies" that powerful software has given us and the potential field of applicants must be winnowed-out.
MS may lose ground in the browser market because they have frozen IE at version 6 SP1
Yes but IE does have (free) third-party add-ons available such as CrazyBrowser and AvantBrowser that offer many great features similar to Mozilla. While CrazyBrowser development appears to be nailed to the perch or just resting, AvantBrowser is steaming along with a pretty active user community. Dunno if the masses are aware of these, though.
I liked this idea, from one of the sites mentioned in the original story submission:
"Register your premium-rate number. Get a minimum wage job as a night-time office cleaner. Call your premium rate number from about 500 phones at the large office you're cleaning, leaving the handsets off all night. Repeat, every night (The office workers will come in in the morning and think "Hmm - the cleaner's left my phone off the hook", and put it back).
The large company this happened to didn't prosecute the cleaner to save their embarassment."
Pool, an American who moved DET from Virginia last year when Canadians invested in the private firm, said DET is "entitled to a royalty on international transactions done computer to computer. Those New Zealanders are using our technology, for heaven's sake, and they're going to pay or they're going to stop violating the 505284 patent."
...little research has been done into why some people are compulsively drawn to multitasking. But he theorizes that the allure has several layers. Multitasking offers a guise of productivity, a "macho" show of accomplishment, and similarities to a quick amphetamine rush.
I.E., I gotta be firstest (witness the "First Post" phenomenon here) no matter what it takes, otherwise I will lose face.
Far too much emphasis is placed on hype. In this computer age, speed tends to eclipse wisdom. By the time second thoughts distill, it's too late.
Sure, it's fluff and browser overhead, but IE's support for partial transparency and filters looks classy (IMO). Since Milonic was in the news recently, I'll use their latest beta as an example.
Are these effects proprietary and would Mozilla ever bother with them?
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Yes. In Rush's case, more cowbells, tympanis, wood blocks, bongos, gongs, triangles...
A photo of Neil Peart's drum kit.
I wonder what this guy's home computer looks like.
More pictures of drum setups from different eras of Rush at http://www.rush-signals.com/rush/neil_gear.html
More range is better, which can equate to louder "loud"'s, and softer "soft"'s
TV commercial audio engineers already seem to know this...
"Being made of wood, I really wouldn't..."
May we burn you if you also float in water like the very small rocks?
Thanks, obviously you are correct.
The model I had must have been an inbetweener, since I remember the later version not having the big lens.
The only thing "wrong" I found with it was the inability to manually focus. Very nice camera for the money.
Paul
10x optical zoom on a digital canera?
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Think back to the Camedia, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00
No, Olympus 10x optical zoom.
Until I can buy a camera body that can accept commercially-available lenses (prefereably Ultrasonic Canon ones), at a reasonable price I'm not buying. The camera makers are slowly releasing stuff in the hope that peopoe will keep buying SLRs, but the pace of digital camera development makes everyone wait.
Olympus used to have a great 10x (not digital) zoom digital cam, but it's been discontinued.
Yes and yes. Companies today are being managed by MBAs who don't know a fucking shit about the way business actually works, all they know about is "administration". MBAs never get into the detais, they only think in the big picture. If it isn't shown in power-point slides, then it doesn't exist. If fraud wasn't in the business plan, or if it wasn't mentioned by the marketing consultants, it doesn't exist.
Why was the above modded as "funny"? Aside from the "fraud" slight, it seems to be pretty accurate.
Cost of paying you to sit in your underwear and "work"
You actually wear underwear while working at home?
Yes, replying to my own message, sorry.
What happens in the "real engineering" world is that plants are built, facilities constructed, etc., based on "our" designs.
The reality tends to be somewhat different though, as during construction certain necessary changes are made.
The designer of the original system typically is not notified of these changes, as this is not important in the overall scheme of things. Most times, tweaks are done at the local level and are only ever documented at the facility itself.
The more information others have about you, the more subtly they can manipulate you. Detailed information is usually used to take advantage of someone.
I'd like to echo this thought because it is all too easy to "look someone up" and form an opinion of them without even meeting the person. I am speaking specifically of credit reports / drug test results, which, more and more, are being used (because it's easy to do from a monied corporate perspective and going after the trustwothy drones that suit the suits' interests best) to evaluate people.
This phenomenon is going to only get worse in the future as more and more jobs are lost due to the perceived "efficiencies" that powerful software has given us and the potential field of applicants must be winnowed-out.
This article, while written before most of us were born, is still relevant.
"Leetspeak" be damned!
...is that they keep slipping down off your nose. I know! I'll invent something to prevent this and call it...Opti-Grab, yeah, that's the ticket!
Bullshit. You shouldn't take a Yugo and a M1 but a car with crumple zones and a car without crumple zones, each weighing the same.
I couldn't find any crash photos of an M1, but here are a couple M3s.
How can anyone prepare for a career when there's a significant chance that the career could be totally obliterated in as short a period as 5 years.
What's different now from the "buggy whip days" is that it's not physical labor that's being replaced, it's mental labor.
MS may lose ground in the browser market because they have frozen IE at version 6 SP1
Yes but IE does have (free) third-party add-ons available such as CrazyBrowser and AvantBrowser that offer many great features similar to Mozilla. While CrazyBrowser development appears to be nailed to the perch or just resting, AvantBrowser is steaming along with a pretty active user community. Dunno if the masses are aware of these, though.
I liked this idea, from one of the sites mentioned in the original story submission:
"Register your premium-rate number. Get a minimum wage job as a night-time office cleaner. Call your premium rate number from about 500 phones at the large office you're cleaning, leaving the handsets off all night. Repeat, every night (The office workers will come in in the morning and think "Hmm - the cleaner's left my phone off the hook", and put it back).
The large company this happened to didn't prosecute the cleaner to save their embarassment."
Sounds urban legendish.
He's dead, Jim.
Homer's brain: Use reverse psychology.
Homer: Oh, that sounds too complicated.
Homer's brain: Okay, don't use reverse psychology.
Homer: Okay, I will!
Pool, an American who moved DET from Virginia last year when Canadians invested in the private firm, said DET is "entitled to a royalty on international transactions done computer to computer. Those New Zealanders are using our technology, for heaven's sake, and they're going to pay or they're going to stop violating the 505284 patent."
...little research has been done into why some people are compulsively drawn to multitasking. But he theorizes that the allure has several layers. Multitasking offers a guise of productivity, a "macho" show of accomplishment, and similarities to a quick amphetamine rush.
I.E., I gotta be firstest (witness the "First Post" phenomenon here) no matter what it takes, otherwise I will lose face.
Far too much emphasis is placed on hype. In this computer age, speed tends to eclipse wisdom. By the time second thoughts distill, it's too late.
I installed it this afternoon and it caused repeated system crashes during the start up process. Had to remove it and revert back to W2K SP3.
Is "Eject PC" the same sort of thing as what happens at the beginning of SCTV?
Sure, it's fluff and browser overhead, but IE's support for partial transparency and filters looks classy (IMO). Since Milonic was in the news recently, I'll use their latest beta as an example.
Are these effects proprietary and would Mozilla ever bother with them?
It took "...11 studies by 27 scientists at four universities..." to design --Tah-Dah!-- a chair.
Clap, clap.